Diversity Through Interaction: An Interview Forum

Abstract

This paper accompanies an explorative and interactive forum that featured interviews with invited conference speakers Mehrasa Alizadeh, Dat Bao, and Judith B. O’Loughlin, in the presence of a live audience. Each interviewee was selected so that speakers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds within applied linguistics could be represented, with the interviews designed to explore diverse interests so as to establish commonalities, promote mutual understanding, and create a space for new insights to emerge between practitioners in the field. The paper opens with a description of the aims, rationale, and format of the session, followed by reflective accounts of each of the interview exchanges. It concludes by addressing the themes and insights that emerged during this interactive session, as a way to evaluate the potential of forums with a dialogic emphasis. このフォーラムは、三人の招待されたスピーカー（Mehrasa Alizadeh, Dat Bao, and Judith B. O’Loughlin）のインタビューを取り上げたものでる。始めにそれぞれのスピーカーをインタビューし、その後、三人で討論しもらった。その結果が研究者たちの助けとなるよう、応用言語学のそれぞれの違った専門分野の専門家がお互いから何を学ぶか、共通点は何かを観察した。本論文は、このフォーラムの全員の参加者の意見を反映したものである。

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