VIA: Video-based Interaction-Assessment Methodology

Abstract

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</p><p>Evaluating the impacts of trainings in educational settings is a permanent preoccupation for researchers in education, as well as for professional facilitators and teachers. We address this preoccupation by proposing an empirical methodology based on video-recordings - the VIA methodology for Video-based Interactional Assessment Methodology. It will allow the researchers/ professionals to develop a deep understanding of the social interactions that occur between the learners and the facilitators during their workshops and/or pedagogical activities. By working with VIA, professionals will be able to identify the good, the problematic, the unexpected practices, and therefore to adjust continually the organization of their workshops in cultural mediation as well as in language learning activities, in classroom or in museums. The VIA methodology is presented in this manual through video-recordings collected during the workshops we led in Vienna, Turku and Paris as part of the LALI project.<br></p><p>The presentation of the VIA methodology goes along with the assessment of LALI workshops. It provides then an explanation of the special interests we found in working in museums with artworks to organize language-learning activities. Artworks revealed as particularly stimulating resources for animating interactions among the participants, learners as well as facilitators. In this sense, the following document provides instances of how the VIA methodology can be applied to specific cases of workshops. <br></p><p>This manual contains two parts:</p><p>1. Theoretical and methodological aspects of VIA</p><p>2. Comparative analysis for LALI assessment<br></p>