Emily Black

Institute of English Studies
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Emily Black is a Ph.D. student in English linguistics and interlanguage pragmatics at the Institute of English Studies. She holds a first class MA degree in Applied Linguistics and Intercultural Communication from Essex University, England. She also has five years of experience teaching conversational EFL and training EFL teachers in Japan. Her study uses data from the Language LINC corpus (Language Learners in INteraction Corpus). Language LINC is a collection of recordings of Skype meetings between German students studying business English at Leuphana and Irish students studying business German at Trinity College Dublin. Students met with their partners five times over the course of the semester via Skype to complete learning tasks for their respective language classes. Applying a Conversation Analytic approach to a selection of these recordings, the project investigates both the small talk and the task sequences in the English portion of these conversations and contrasts the sequential strategies employed by the Irish and German participants.

Title of her PhD project: "Interactional competence in learner-native speaker voice based telecollaboration: A conversation analytic approach"