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Simulating the Wild through Experiential Language Learning (SWELL)

Research Project

Project/Area Number 23K20098
Project/Area Number (Other) 20H01283 (2020-2023)
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund (2024)
Single-year Grants (2020-2023)
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
Research InstitutionKobe University

Principal Investigator

T・S Greer  神戸大学, 大学教育推進機構, 教授 (10320540)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) Hauser Eric  電気通信大学, 大学院情報理工学研究科, 准教授 (30361827)
BURCH Alfred.Rue  南山大学, 国際教養学部, 准教授 (60869113)
Nanbu Zachary  同志社大学, グローバル地域文化学部, 助教 (60983187)
Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2025-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2024)
Budget Amount *help
¥15,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,690,000)
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)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥6,110,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,410,000)
Keywords会話分析 / 外国語教育 / 英語教育 / 第2言語使用 / 英語学習 / Task-based learning / Language use in the wild / 応用言語学 / Conversation Analysis / Task-based Learning / Role-play / Simulation / Experiential Learning / Simulated contexts / 第2言語教育 / Second language use / タスクベース学習 / ロールプレイ学習 / 学外言語学習
Outline of Research at the Start

継続課題のため、記入しない。

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

In Japan, opportunities to experience English in everyday situations are rare, so some institutions create simulated environments where students can experience English in realistically reproduced settings or hold classes through English mediated instruction (EMI). Unlike the real world, this approach provides learners with a safe place to experiment and play with language without fearing actual consequences for their mistakes. As Conversation Analysts and language teachers, we are interested in the interaction that goes on in this unique setting and how it provides opportunities for learning that do not exist in normal language classrooms. We are also investigating experiential language learning in other settings, such as cooking classes, VR games and in mundane talk beyond the classroom.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

Although our project was initially delayed due to the COVID pandemic, we have now collected a sufficient amount of video-recorded data from our sites and we are working on analyzing it according to the conversation analytic principles. This has lead to the identification and explication of various interactional practices that facilitate language learning within these educational settings. We are working on the analysis and reporting of our results.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

We are holding regular online data sessions and will be presenting our results at national and international research forums such as the CAN Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction and the ICOP-L2 conference in Denmark. Among others, Greer, Hauser and Nanbu have started looking at the notion of morphability within the roleplay data. Burch has begun looking at the cooking data in terms of task-based learning. Greer is also collaborating on the VR data with Adam Brandt, a specialist in digitally mediated interaction from Newcastle University, UK.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report
  • 2022 Annual Research Report
  • 2021 Annual Research Report
  • 2020 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (31 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (8 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (13 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 11 results,  Invited: 3 results) Remarks (3 results) Funded Workshop (5 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Vietnam National University(ベトナム)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Newcastle University(英国)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] L2 sidebar talk and distributed perception in a virtual reality game2023

    • Author(s)
      Greer, T.
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 6th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction

      Volume: 2023 Pages: 10-20

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Audible gestures: Single claps as a resource for managing interaction2023

    • Author(s)
      Hauser, E.
    • Journal Title

      Pragmatics

      Volume: - Issue: 3 Pages: 367-392

    • DOI

      10.1075/prag.21052.hau

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report 2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] "I got stepped on!" Participant orientations to proximity and space during a VR English class2023

    • Author(s)
      Nanbu, Z.
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 6th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction

      Volume: 2023 Pages: 35-44

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Creating obstacles to progressivity: Task expansion in second language role-plays2023

    • Author(s)
      Nanbu, Z. & Greer, T.
    • Journal Title

      TESOL Quarterly

      Volume: 57(4) Issue: 4 Pages: 1364-1400

    • DOI

      10.1002/tesq.3197

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report 2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] "I got stepped on!" Participant orientations to proximity and space during a VR English class2022

    • Author(s)
      Nanbu, Z.
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 5th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, 14-15 May.

      Volume: - Pages: 35-44

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] "I don't know word": How L2 learners recruit assistances to address reading difficulties.2022

    • Author(s)
      Amar, C. & Greer, T.
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 5th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, 14-15 May.

      Volume: - Pages: 11-17

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Teachers as interactional mediators2022

    • Author(s)
      Greer, T.
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 5th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, 14-15 May.

      Volume: xx Pages: 70-79

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Being the class clown: L2 incompetence as performance.2022

    • Author(s)
      Hauser, E.
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 5th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, 14-15 May.

      Volume: - Pages: 19-28

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Presentation] Managing co-presence during a virtual reality English class2023

    • Author(s)
      Zachary Nanbu.
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA), Brisbane, Australia, 26 June-2 July.
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Occasioned enactments in L2 role-plays: Enlisting environmental objects and their mimed counterparts.2023

    • Author(s)
      Tim Greer and Zachary Nanbu
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA), Brisbane, Australia, 26 June-2 July.
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Turn allocation for team-building in an educational context2023

    • Author(s)
      Eric Hauser
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA), Brisbane, Australia, 26 June-2 July.
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Managing co-presence during a virtual reality English class2023

    • Author(s)
      Rue Burch.
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA), Brisbane, Australia, 26 June-2 July.
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Displaying members' knowledge: Doing being a knowledgeable resident of Japan.2023

    • Author(s)
      Eric Hauser.
    • Organizer
      6th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto, 27-28 May.
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] L2 sidebar talk and distributed perception in a virtual reality game2023

    • Author(s)
      Tim Greer.
    • Organizer
      6th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto, 27-28 May.
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Collaboratively imagining what another is seeing: L2 sidebar talk in a virtual reality game2023

    • Author(s)
      Tim Greer
    • Organizer
      Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 25 May.
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Tokyo Global Gateway and the effectiveness of experience-based learning,2023

    • Author(s)
      Tim Greer and Motoko Nagao
    • Organizer
      19th International Session of the Transcultural Management Society, Online, 12 May.
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Competence to participate: Student gaze shift and orientation to being selected2021

    • Author(s)
      Cheikhna Amar and Eric Hauser
    • Organizer
      L2 Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2), Barcelona, Spain
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Participation on the periphery2021

    • Author(s)
      Tim Greer
    • Organizer
      L2 Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2), Barcelona, Spain
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Embodied list construction as a resource in L2 interaction2021

    • Author(s)
      Zachary Nanbu
    • Organizer
      L2 Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2), Barcelona, Spain
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Two practices of address in student use of L2 English for initiating actions2021

    • Author(s)
      Eric Hauser and Zachary Nanbu
    • Organizer
      L2 Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2), Barcelona, Spain
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] "This takes skill": Task engagement and orientation in a CLIL experiment2021

    • Author(s)
      Rue Burch
    • Organizer
      L2 Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2), Barcelona, Spain
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] SWELL website

    • URL

      https://tim792.wixsite.com/swell

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] SWEL

    • URL

      https://tim792.wixsite.com/swell/about

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] SWELL

    • URL

      https://tim792.wixsite.com/swell

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Language and Social Interaction in Asian Contexts2023

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Tim Greer and Zachary Nanbu. Panel: Enriching the Wild: L2 interaction in virtual, augmented and simulated settings. ICCA 2023, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 26 June -- 2 July.2023

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Eric Hauser and Rue Burch. Panel: Interaction in innovative institutional contexts. ICCA 2023, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 26 June -- 2 July.2023

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Tim Greer & Zachary Nanbu. Panel: Language-in-time approaches to the study of interactional grammar in multilingual settings. AAAL 2023 Conference, Portland, OR, USA.2023

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] SWELL Planning meeting2021

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2020-04-28   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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