2024, June. “The inversion gesture: Inviting learners’ self-repair in L2 German video-mediated tutoring.” Panel “Embodied practices and routines in technologically rich L2 settings” (organizers: T. Malabarba & T. Oittinen). Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) Kolding, Denmark. With T. Malabarba.
2024, March 5-7. “Responsivpartikeln im Deutschen und im Sprachvergleich.” Plenary presentation at the IDS Jahrestagung, conference theme ‘Gesprochene Sprache: Struktur, Variation, Interaktion’. Mannheim, Germany.
2023, Nov 6-8. “Epistemics and embodiment: on functions of one-sided vs. two-sided shoulder lifts in managing knowledge in talk-in-interaction.” Knowledge in Talk-in-Interaction (KNOWINT 2023), Lausanne, Switzerland. With A. Gubina.
2023, July 18-21. “Treating something as remarkable: Prosodically marked ‘no’-turns in German and Persian.” International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Mannheim, Germany. With A. Gubina, C. Taleghani-Nikazm, and R. Afshari Saleh.
2023, June 26-July 2. “Marking something as news(worthy): Prosodically marked ‘no’ in German.” Part of thepanel ‘Responses to news: Cross-linguistic perspectives’ (X. Li, M. Marmorstein and B. Szczepek Reed). International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA23), Brisbane, Australia. With A. Gubina.
2022, July. “Verbal and embodied practices for addressing trouble with an embodied move: On the shifting focus of a research paper” (Plenary). Summer Institute for Interactional Linguistics (July 18-22), Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany.
2021, June. “Topicalizing understanding in French and German.” 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPRA), Winterthur, Switzerland. With A. Golato and P. Golato.
2021, June. “Beyond confirmation: Continuations, topic elaborations, and accounts in response to requests for confirmation.” Panel ‘Cross-linguistic approaches to requests for confirmation’ (K. König and M. Pfeiffer). 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPRA), Winterthur, Switzerland. With A. Gubina & A. Deppermann.
2021, June. “Managing embodied trouble sources in game-playing interaction: Evidence from German and English.” CAWG Speaker Series Spring 2021. UCLA, Los Angeles, USA. With A. Golato.
2021, March. “Managing embodied trouble sources in interaction: Evidence from German and English.” Symposium for Margret Selting, Perspectives of Interactional Linguistics. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Potsdam, Germany. With A. Golato.
2019, Nov. 14-17.“OKAY in multi-party interaction: Coordinating talk, nodding, and gaze.” 105th Annual Convention of theNational Communication Association (NCA), Baltimore, MD, USA. With H. Helmer and A. Deppermann.
2019, July 23-26. “OKAY across languages: an interactional perspective on a imported particle” (Keynote presentation). 46th Annual conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS). Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2018, July. “Uses of OKAY: Receipting and displaying understanding.” Part of thepanel ‘OKAY across languages: Towards a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction’ (E. Betz, A. Deppermann, L. Mondada, and M.-L. Sorjonen). International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA), Loughborough, UK. With A. Deppermann.
2018, July. “Okay as a second-position preface for multi-unit turns in English.” Part of thepanel ‘Multi-unit turns in conversation’. International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA), Loughborough, UK. Invited contribution. With N. Shrikant, M. Clinkenbeard, E. Morita, D. Searles, and W. Tuccio.
2018, May. “Between universal and specific uses: OKAY in Mandarin Chinese and German interaction.” CAUTG Meeting at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2018, Regina, SK, Canada. With X. Li.
2018, March. “OKAY: Eine sprachübergreifende, komparative Studie eines Internationalismus”.21. Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung (AGF). Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany. With H. Helmer and A. Deppermann.
2017, May. “Between affirmation and confirmation: Doing confirming simpliciter with ja in German.” Intersubjectivity in Action 2017, Centre of Excellence for Intersubjectivity in Social Interaction, Helsinki, Finland. With J. Zinken.
2016, Dec. “Indexing priority of position: Discursive uses of the response particle eben in German.” Eleventh Germanic and Slavic Studies Conference at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. With A. Deppermann.
2016, Nov. “Getting others to perform the next relevant action: Managing progressivity in card game interactions.” Panel ‘Getting others to act: Turn design and action construction across languages’ (organizers: E. Betz & C. Taleghani-Nikazm). 102nd Annual Convention of theNational Communication Association (NCA), Philadelphia, PA, USA. With C. Taleghani-Nikazm, V. Drake, and A. Golato.
2016, March. “Diskursmarker aus konversationsanalytischer Sicht”/ “Discourse markers from a CA pespective: The case of turn-initial ja” (Plenary). 19. Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung. Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany.
Teaching and learning languages: interactional competence in a second language
2023, March 28. “Interaktion lehren und lernen.” Workshop for graduate students. Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld, Germany. With C. Taleghani-Nikazm.
2019, Dec. “Discovering patterns of language use: Teaching interaction in first-year German.” DAAD German Language Teaching & Learning Workshop (organizer: H.-S. Kim). University of Toronto, Canada.
2019, Aug. “The competence in little words: Response patterns in German L2 interaction.” WorkshopAssessing Interactional Competence (IC) – Between Observation and Grading (organizers: D. Barth-Weingarten & E. Betz). Potsdam, Germany. With S. Schirm and C. Taleghani-Nikazm.
2018, October. “Beyond the language textbook: Understanding interaction and teaching interaction patterns.” Goethe Institute Toronto Workshop at the British Columbia Council of Teachers of German. Vancouver, BC, Canada. With S. Ghaffarian and T. Huth.
2017, Dec. “Discovering patterns of language use: Teaching interaction in first-year German.” DAAD German Language Teaching & Learning Workshop (organizer: H.-S. Kim). University of Toronto, Canada.
2017, Sept. "Understanding everyday interaction and learning how to teach it: a language teacher training workshop." Symposium From Interaction Research to the Language Classroom: Integrating Academic Research and Teacher Education (ARTE) (organizers: K. Glaser, M. Kupetz & H.-J. You), Hannover, Germany. With T. Huth and C. Taleghani-Nikazm.
2017, April. “Interaktion lernen, Interaktion lehren – forschungsgeleitete Ansätze zur Vermittlung von Sprache und Kultur durch Interaktionsstrukturen.” DAAD-Tagung „Perspektiven deutscher Sprache und Kultur in der Wissenschaft: Kanada, USA, Deutschland“, Toronto, Ontario. With T. Huth.
2017, Jan. “Talk-in-interaction as learning target? How language ideologies and current resources for teaching methodology inform language teacher training.” Panel “L2 Interactional Competence as the institutional target of instruction: Challenges in designing, implementing and maintaining innovation” (organizers: S. Kunitz & R. Salaberry). ICOP-L2, Neuchatel, Switzerland. With T. Huth and C. Taleghani-Nikazm.