2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Learning Language and Culture Through Social Interaction During Tours Conducted at Cultural Heritage Sites and Its Application to Second Language Education
| Project/Area Number |
23K00758
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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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| Keywords | tour interaction / conversation analysis / second language / language learning / cultural heritage site |
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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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| Causes of Carryover |
We were planning to invite an overseas research cooperator but it was postponed to the year 2024.
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