ABSTRACT
The short verbal conversation represented in the excerpt1 above takes place between two adult students, Maria and Anna, who are members of an online Italian language learning classroom. These online course meetings scheduled for students once a week are focused upon in the study presented here. The slice of everyday life from an institutional learning setting represented above draws attention to the ways in which participants orient towards one another when negotiating, among other things, what it means to be students in a virtual site. Enabled by a videoconferencing programme (Figure 1), participants can come together in the virtual classroom, literally from anywhere on the planet, if they have access to an internet connection.
