Managing student participation: Teacher strategies in a virtual EFL course

This paper aims to explore teacher strategies for managing student participation in a complex Multi-user Virtual Environment. Data include transcribed recordings from a task-based eflcourse in Second Life. Conversational Analysis is adopted to analyze the teacher’s verbal language output in the transcript, and a stu-dent questionnaire is used to complement the findings from the transcript. The results sug-gest that teacher strategies are influenced by task phases and also by the specific nature of Second Life.