2022 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Facework and peer interaction in group work tasks from an emic and an etic perspective
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19K13299
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| Research Institution | Reitaku University |
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Principal Investigator |
チジャック オルガ 麗澤大学, 外国語学部, 講師 (70803948)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Interaction / face-threatening acts / group work / stimulated recall / ; CA for SLA / socio-cultural approach / TBLT / online classes |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
During the academic year 2022 the monography summarizing the results from the original dataset collected before the pandemic in an in-class on-campus setting was finalized and published in a scientific book series based in Germany specializing on second language acquisition (“Giessener Beitraege zur Fremdsprachendidaktik” (book series), Narr Francke Attempto (publisher)).
Publishing process in detail: April-June: Review by the editorial board of the book series; June-July: Revision of content details (addition of references, minor corrections); August-September: adaption to the formatting template; October-November: final adaptions (clarification of license issues (pictures), presentation of the transcripts, etc.); January 16th 2023: publication
Besides working on the monography, data from different online cooperation project (COIL) was collected. One data set originates from a course with focus on cultural exchange between students at a German university and a Japanese university. The lingua franca was German. The second data set was collected in a course with participants from Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The meetings were planned and conducted by novice teachers from Germany. The focus of the course was language learning through TBLT. The extensive data shows interesting parallels but also some differences to the original data set.
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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 as a whole is progressing not exactly as planned, due to the pandemic between 2020 and 2022. However, the changing circumstances are also a chance to reconsider previously set conditions and explore the research questions in an online setting.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
This academic year will be the last year of this project focusing on face-threatening aspects of group work interaction during tasks. The analysis of my original data set acquired bevor the pandemic in an in-class setting has been finished, so that the goal for the current year is going to be the analysis of the online data which were collected in different online courses. The purpose of the analysis of the online data is to verify to what extend the categories which emerged from the in-class data are also relevant for the online group interaction. Notable differences are expected since the relationship between the students differs greatly. On the one hand participants from different countries who are not quite familiar with each other are expected to interact differently from students with a higher degree of familiarity. On the other hand, participants who speak the lingua franca as a first language might be perceived as experts and consequently the equality within the group is not given anymore.
The plan is as follows: April-May: review and selection of the collected data; June-July: first interactional analysis (similar to CA for SLA (Conversational Analysis for Second Language Acquisition) in its German variation); August-September: verification of the preliminary results through discussion with experts in this field and literature review; October-November: finalizing the analysis; December-January: summary and discussion of the results for a paper; February-March: presentation at a conference and/or submission to a relevant scientific journal.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The changing circumstances due to the pandemic are a chance to revisit the original research design in an in-class-setting also in an online environment. The extension of this project allows to deepen the understanding of peer interaction among learners under different circumstances. During the last two to three years new teaching concepts like COIL flourished and were implemented in various classes and subjects. However, while in theory online exchange classes give students the opportunity to interact with peers all over the world and develop their competences in intercultural communication and language, learners also face challenges in such settings (uncertainties how to interact with learners and teachers with a different L1, technical difficulties (turn taking, eye contact, etc.) among others). Since the original project idea focused on face relevant aspects in group work interactions in a physical class, it is important to verify the results in virtual exchanges which gained relevance over the last couple of years.
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[Journal Article] Vorwort2023
Author(s)
Cezar Constantinescu, Olga Czyzak, Frank Nickel, Manuela Sato-Prinz
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Journal Title
Ertraege des JGG-Seminars fuer Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Literatur und Geschichte im DaF-Unterricht in Japan
Volume: 2
Pages: 7-10
DOI
Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
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