Unpacking corrections in mobile instruction: Error-occasioned learning opportunities in driving, cycling and aviation training

Showing where you're going. Instructing the accountable use of the indicator in live traffic

“…The present analysis indicates, as we have shown elsewhere (Levin et al, ), that instructors routinely prioritise the controlling of the car as it moves through the environment over explaining the rationale underpinning the car control action. In short, within the instructional chains of driver training, instructors only provide action descriptions when there is enough time to produce them.…”

“…There is currently a small but growing literature within the field of interaction studies on how driving is taught and learned De Stefani & Gazin, 2014;Deppermann, 2015;Gazin, 2015;Juhlin, 2010;Levin et al 2017). Among other things, these studies demonstrate how instructions and instructed actions are accomplished in driver training, in a reflexive relationship to the car's movement through a structured environment (see also Haddington & Keisanen, 2009) and the actions of other road users.…”

“…For our current interests, we observe that some of these instructor correction initiations are expanded by action descriptions (cf. Levin et al, ) invoking how others will understand their car (cf. Broth, Cromdal, Levin, forthcoming) when indicating at a particular point in time.…”

“…Why it is important also to indicate is then unpacked in an immediately following increment (cf. Levin et al, ) that formulates the car's accountability for the vehicle behind them, ‘so that they know where we're going’ (03). As in previous excerpts, the trainee driver can be observed to respond to the directive rather than to the action description, for she initiates her responsive action already upon completion of the directive.…”

Learning to communicate: Managing multiple strands of participation in driving lessons

“…Driving lessons are the locus in which trainee drivers learn to apply the acquired knowledge to everyday traffic situations. Recent interactionally oriented work has studied driving lessons as a setting of instruction, strongly focusing on how instructions are produced and responded to (De Stefani and Gazin, 2014;Gazin, 2015;Deppermann, 2015Deppermann, , 2018aDeppermann, , 2018bBroth et al 2017Broth et al , 2018Levin et al 2017;De Stefani, 2018). Interaction between drivers and passengers has also been investigated in ordinary driving (Laurier et al, 2008(Laurier et al, , 2012Haddington and Keisanen, 2009;Haddington, 2010Haddington, , 2012Haddington, , 2013.…”