This webinar was organized by SOLD Research Environment at Mälardalen University on the 22nd of September, 2021. For information on SOLD, visit https://www.mdh.se/en/malardalen-university/research/educational-sciences-and-mathematics/language-s...

Duncan Lees, University of Warwick, UK

Time: 14:15-15:45

Doing (things with) Shakespeare at a Chinese university – an interactional approach to intercultural language education

Abstract:
This presentation will examine a series of Shakespeare workshops held in the English faculty of a Chinese university. Taking an ethnomethodological perspective involving Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorisation Analysis, it will show how the participants (including myself as practitioner/researcher) used a range of linguistic and interactional resources to do – and do things with – Shakespeare. In the process, it will show participants not only ‘doing learning’ in an intercultural language education context, but also using Shakespeare in interactions that involved doing practical and moral reasoning, and, in some cases, doing ‘being intercultural’.
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Dr Duncan Lees is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK. His research and teaching combine drama and intercultural language education with insights from Ethnomethodology/Conversation Analysis. His ESRC-funded PhD, on teaching Shakespeare in China, drew on his extensive experience of working in Chinese higher education.