| Project/Area Number |
23K00758
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
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| Research Institution | Kanagawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
細田 由利 神奈川大学, 国際日本学部, 教授 (70349124)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
David Aline 神奈川大学, 国際日本学部, 教授 (70289958)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-04-01 – 2026-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2025: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
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| Keywords | tour interaction / conversation analysis / second language / language learning / cultural heritage site / cultural heritage sites |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This project examines how teaching and learning of culture is accomplished by guides and visitors during tours conducted in a second language, and applies this view of language acquisition as being interactionally and socially contextualized to pedagogical practices.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This research project was designed to explore how teaching and learning language and culture is accomplished in L2 guided tours and to delineate L2 interactional competences of those who lead and participate in such tours. Moreover, this project attempts to demonstrate how this contextualized learning contributes to language acquisition. In the 2023 academic year, we video-recorded the following L2 tours: (a) two tours of world heritage sites in New Caledonia, French Republic, conducted by French guides speaking in English as a second language, (b) a tour of a world heritage site in Seoul, Republic of Korea, conducted by a Korean guide speaking in English as second language, and (c) a tour of a local cultural site (Sankeien, Yokohama) conducted by Japanese guides interacting with foreign visitors in English. All these data have been securely archived and we are now in the process of transcribing and analyzing them. The results of our initial analyses of the data were presented at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA) 2023. We also published a paper in an international journal that examined guides’ deployment of known-answer questions in L2 tours.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The research project is going smoothly as planned. We have been collecting and analyzing many hours of data. We were also able to present the initial findings at an international conference and published one paper in a refereed international journal.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In the 2024 academic year, we are planning to do the following: (a) presenting a paper “Initiating Informing Sequences in English as a Lingua Franca Tours” at The 1st International Symposium on Conversation Analysis (CARDIT 2024), (b) collecting data at both domestic cultural heritage sites and international cultural heritage sites, (c) processing and archiving data, (d) analyzing data, (e) inviting our international research cooperator, Prof. Steve Thorne from Portland State University, both for private consultation on this project and for holding a Conversation Analysis seminar focusing on mobile interaction, (f) presenting papers at TESOL conferences in Thailand and the U.S.A., and (g) writing a paper to submit to an international journal.
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