Research topics

My research interests include discourse studies, second/foreign language acquisition, anthropology of education and intercultural communication. In my PhD I analysed the sociocultural and interactional dimensions of four types of educational encounters in higher education.

I am coordinator of the ACLC research group Institutional Discourse.

• ACLC research group Institutional Discourse

Projects

Educational Ethnography: Everyday Practices This project aims to develop a (critical)  discourse-based framework for the description and analysis of multiparty task-oriented interactions at school and at the university. We zoom in on dimensions of teacher and students’ behaviors that often pass under the radar of traditional research paradigms and observation categories (see also our website under construction: Competences in context).
Principal researchers: Anne Bannink and Jet Van Dam

Educational Ethnography: Teacher Education
In this project student teachers collect video data of authentic teaching/learning situations and reflect on constraints and affordances of the institutional discourses they are part of.  Rather than focusing on discrete dimensions of the classroom interface we invite them to adopt a more integrated, holistic view and become researchers of their own teaching practice.
Principal researchers: Anne Bannink and Jet van Dam

 Discourses in medical settings (PhD project). This study evaluates the effect of a screening tool for psychological stress in head and neck cancer patients by analyzing discussions between patient and physician during outpatient consultations (video data; institutional data; interview data).Principal researcher: Elin Derks.

Discourses and interdiscursivity in educational settings (PhD project). This study critically examines claims about the role of negotiation of meaning in SLA on the basis of interactions  between native and nonnative students in Australian and Dutch Universities who communicate via two forms of computer-mediated communication: video-conferencing and instant chat-messaging. Principal researcher: Rose van der Zwaard

Selected publications

• Bannink, A. & Wentink, D. (2015). "I need to confess something"- coming out on national television. Discourse & Communication, 9(5). 

• Van der Zwaard, R. & Bannink, A. (2014) Video call or chat? Negotiation of meaning and issues of face in telecollaboration, System, 44,1-12.

• Bannink, A. & Van Dam, J. (2013), The first lecture: playing upon identities and modeling academic roles, Linguistics & Education,  24(4), 556-571. 

• Bannink, A. & Van Dam, J. (2013), Voices, grins and laughter in the lecture room, Linguistics & Education, 24(4), 572-584. 
• Bannink, A. (2010), West meets East - on the necessity of local pedagogies, Journal of Intercultural Communication, 24, 1-11.
• Bannink, A.(2009), How to capture growth? - Video narratives as an instrument for assessment in teacher education, Teaching & Teacher Education, 25(2) 244-250.
• Bannink, A. & Van Dam, J. (2007), Premature closure and guided reinvention: A case study in a web-based environment, Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, vol. 13(6), 565-586.
• Bannink, A. & Van Dam, J. (2007), Bootstrapping reflection on classroom conversations, Evaluation and Research in Education, 20(2), 81-100.
• Bannink, A. & Van Dam, J. (2006), A dynamic discourse approach to classroom research, Linguistics & Education, 17(3), 283-301.
• Bannink, A. (2002). Negotiating the paradoxes of spontaneous talk in advanced L2 classes. In C. Kramsch (Ed.), Language learning and language socialization: ecological perspectives (266-289) . New York: Continuum.

Selected lectures

•  Inside the IRF: structural features of multiparty classroom floors, AWIA Symposium (2014).
• Unraveling discourse complexities: zooming in on affordances of educational situations, Oud Amsterdams Peil, Amsterdam (2013).
• The neglected situation: Ethnography as a tool in teacher education, Ethnography of Communication: Ways forward, Omaha (2012).

• Toon, taal & teken: Geesteswetenschappen in de lerarenopleiding, Opening Academisch Jaar (2010).
• Floor and footing complexity inside the IRE: an emergent academic story, AWIA Symposium , Amsterdam (2010, with Jet van Dam van Isselt). 
• Premature closure and guided reinvention , 2nd Conference of the International Society for Language Studies, Honolulu (2007).

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