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Creating and sharing a language learning and teaching corpus of multimodal interactions: ethical challenges and methodological implications

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Reffay, Betbeder and Chanier (2012) define a LEarning and TEaching Corpus (LETEC) “as a structured entity containing all the elements resulting from an online learning situation, whose context is described by an educational scenario and a research protocol” (p. 15). It thus includes the interactions that took place in a learning environment, as well as any other data that will help describe the context of these interactions. In a CALL context, multimodal learning and teaching corpora provide valuable resources not only for second language development and teacher education research, but also for teacher training (Guichon, 2009). However, creating such a corpus, with a view to sharing it with the wider CALL research community, presents a number of challenges, including ethical, legal, and institutional ones, which have direct implications on epistemological and methodological choices. In October 2013, Dublin City University (DCU) joined Le français en première ligne (F1L) project, in partnership with the Université Lyon 2 Lumière. As part of their regular class activities, eighteen business students from DCU were paired with Masters students from Lyon 2 (Teaching French as a Foreign Language), who acted as online French tutors. In the course of six videoconferencing sessions via the Visu platform, tutors guided one or two students through a variety of tasks. Sessions were automatically recorded and used by tutors to provide formative feedback to students. Drawing on the LETEC methodology (Chanier & Ciekanski, 2010; Wigham & Chanier, 2013), this paper explores the ethical, legal, and institutional challenges that had to be addressed prior to the creation and sharing of the F1L Learning and Teaching Corpus that includes recordings of the multimodal interactions, and more particularly video recordings of the participants. The methodological implications of ethical and institutional constraints, which may differ between countries and institutions, on the creation and sharing of our corpus for research and teacher training purposes are presented and discussed.

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hal-01121348 , version 1 (28-02-2015)

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Françoise Blin, Nicolas Guichon, Ciara R. Wigham, Sylvie Thouësny. Creating and sharing a language learning and teaching corpus of multimodal interactions: ethical challenges and methodological implications. ANTWERP CALL 2014: Research Challenges in CALL, University of Antwerp, Jul 2014, Antwerp, Belgium. ⟨hal-01121348⟩
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