| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Research Abstract |
In this project, I examined a particular social interactional context to "argue" and "discuss" with peers, and how L2 users of Japanese (and in comparison, L1 speakers of Japanese) would handle themselves in such a situation. These two groups which consisting of 3～4 people at one time engaged in a discussion for approximately 30 minutes each, for five times. The corpus of these discussions was analyzed using conversation analysis. Along with the main theme of this project, that is to investigate L2 speakers' performance in arguing and discussing, another related theme has come up. The project then investigated how one interactionally delivers his/her opinion to others, i.e., re-considering what has been understood as communicative competence in general. In order to do so, the study has examined additional data such as classroom interaction. Two journal articles were published during the period of research, and two more papers are planned to come out as a chapter in a volume in 2012 and 2013.
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