This article aims at describing in a methodical way how work situations involving the provision of services to « users » may entail specific contingencies and opportunities for novice workers when they have to learn practical skills during internships. The paper is based on video-ethnographic case studies, focusing on verbal and non-verbal interactions between trainees, workplace tutors and users in two distinct institutional contexts: early childhood education and a radiology center in a public hospital. The analyzes produced reveal that users - respectively patients and children - actively contribute to shape interaction processes and that they significantly affect the conditions through which trainees and tutors participate to work production tasks. © 2007 Documentation Francaise. All rights reserved.
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