Ufuk Balaman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ufuk Balaman is involved.
2026 Role exchange as an interactional practice to maintain progressivity in paired role-play interactional competence assessment tasks Applied Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Assessing interactional competence (IC) in second/additional/foreign languages (L2) is increasingly becoming a primary construct to examine the interactional ability of language learners, which calls for assessment contexts that provide opportunities for mutually managing interactions. This… read more
2026 Chapter 10. Conducting task-based needs analysis in digital lower secondary school contexts TBLT for Young Learners: Challenges, opportunities and goals, Khezrlou, Sima (ed.), pp. 200–223 | Chapter
Conducting a task-based needs analysis (TBNA) for young learners in foreign language classrooms presents specific challenges, as young learners often lack an immediate purpose for using a foreign language. In recent years, young learners have increasingly engaged with foreign languages through… read more
2022 Navigating the complex social ecology of screen-based activity in video-mediated interaction Pragmatics 32:1, pp. 54–79 | Article
Task-oriented video-mediated interaction takes place within a complex digital-social ecology which presents, to participants, a practical problem of social coordination: How to navigate, in mutually accountable ways, between interacting with the remote co-participants and scrutinizing one’s own… read more
Dealing with topics of potential cross-cultural sensitivity among transnational groups of pre-service language teachers in video-mediated virtual exchange interactions AILA Review: Online-First Articles | Article
Conversations involving potentially sensitive topics across cultures pose challenges not only for L2 speakers engaged in intercultural communication but also for researchers seeking to understand the mechanisms of such interactions. Digital spaces have long offered rich affordances to address… read more