Welcome Online: Classroom Interaction’s Ethnomethodological Analysis

This study explores the comparative features of online lessons versus offline lessons.When the pandemic forced the shifts of teaching and learning from offline classrooms to online classrooms, lecturers and students had to adjust their teaching and learning patterns; thus, they may take new interactional strategies to organize their activities and maintain their memberships as lecturers/students in online classrooms.When researchers widely use ethnomethodological analysis, conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis to examine offline classroom orders as they can reveal the collaborated activities happening in classrooms, this study draws upon the same analytical approaches, traces the development of ethnomethodological analysis of classroom interaction, and focuses on the comparative features of online classroom interactions.By examining collected online lectures from YouTube, this study unveils three main features of online classroom interactions: the shifts of observation focus, the transformation of conversation interaction patterns and the maintenance of classroom interaction categories.This study sheds light on further studies and contributes to understanding the shifts in classroom interactions when lecturers and students are identified with different strategies to tie their category-predicated actions to their categories in the online context.