The Interactional Ability of Speakers of Japanese as a Second Language.

• Project/Area Number: 19520438
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: YANAGIMACHI Tomoharu Hokkaido University, 留学生センター, 教授 (60301925)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OKADA Misao 北星学園大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (90364215)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2009
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: 相互行為 / インタラクション / 第二言語 / 日本語教育 / 能力

Research Abstract

This research, based on the notion of learning as an interactional achievement and the function of language as media with which people coordinate their participation in interaction, examined how speakers of Japanese as a first and second language coordinate their participation in and organize their interaction, and make their learning in the work place observable to each other. This research examined the naturally-occurring conversational data collected at various work places including sciencelaboratories in a university, restaurant, and boxing gym. Based on the analysis, the following findings are discussed : people engage in real-life communication in order to perform authentic tasks, and in such communication, semiotic resources such as talk, non-vocal behaviors, and artifacts in the environment are producing meanings reciprocally. Furthermore, removing language from the structure of interdependence of the resources and discussing the use and learning of language per se will probably lead to a false understanding of what people are actually doing and learning in interaction. This research also offered discussion and suggestions on the redesign of second-language teaching in the classroom.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 第二言語話者によるインタラクションへの参加と学習の達成 (2009)
  • Author(s): 柳町智治
  • Journal Title: 社会言語科学 12 (1)(状態) Pages: 57-66
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 第二言語話者によるインタラクションへの参加と学習の達成 (2009)
  • Author(s): 柳町智治
  • Journal Title: 社会言語科学 12(1) Pages: 57-66
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] (2009)
  • Author(s): 柳町智治
  • Journal Title: 『日本語教育の過去・現在・未来 第3巻 教室』(小林ミナ・衣川隆生(編著))(凡人社) Pages: 142-160
• [Journal Article] (2009)
  • Author(s): 岡田みさを
  • Journal Title: 『日本語教育の過去・現在・未来 第5巻 文法』(小林ミナ・日比谷潤子(編著))(凡人社) Pages: 125-152
• [Journal Article] インストラクションの組織化-マルチモダリティと「共同注意」の観点から (2008)
  • Author(s): 岡田みさを・柳町智治
  • Journal Title: 社会言語科学 11 (1) Pages: 139-150
  • NAID: 110009570213
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] インストラクションの組織化: マルチモダリティと「共同注意」の観点から (2008)
  • Author(s): 岡田みさを・柳町智治
  • Journal Title: 社会言語科学 11(1) Pages: 139-150
  • NAID: 110009570213
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Learning as an interactional achievement : Second-language speakers' choral co-production in the workplace (2010)
  • Author(s): Yanagimachi, T.
  • Organizer: Invited lecture at the International Symposium on Language Learning and Socialization through Conversations
  • Place of Presentation: Center for Human Activity Theory, Kansai University
  • Year and Date: 2010-02-22
• [Presentation] Explanation or boxing performance?: Micro-analysis of the processes of participants' 'mutual monitoring' of each other's embodied actions (2010)
  • Author(s): Okada, M.
  • Organizer: Invited lecture at the International Symposium on Language Learning and Socialization through Conversations
  • Place of Presentation: Center for Human Activity Theory, Kansai University
  • Year and Date: 2010-02-20
• [Presentation] 相互行為的コミュニケーションの様相 : 会話参与者による参加の調整 (2009)
  • Author(s): 岡田みさを
  • Organizer: 電子情報通信学会 ヒューマンコミュニケーショングループシンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 札幌コンベンションセンター
  • Year and Date: 2009-12-11
• [Presentation] 「シンポジウム SLA研究の再概念化 : 相互行為としての会話とその能力」企画および趣旨説明 (2008)
  • Author(s): 柳町智治
  • Organizer: 第19回第二言語習得研究会 (JASLA) 全国大会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学
  • Year and Date: 2008-12-13
• [Presentation] What are L2 speakers learning in natural conversations, an L2 or a "professional vision"? (2008)
  • Author(s): Yanagimachi, T., Okada, M.
  • Organizer: Paper presented at AILA 2008 : The 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: Essen, Germany
  • Year and Date: 2008-08-28
• [Presentation] What are L2 speakers learning in natural conversations, an L2 or a"professional vision"? (2008)
  • Author(s): Yanagimachi, T. & Okada, M.
  • Organizer: The 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2008)
  • Place of Presentation: ドイツ、エッセン市
  • Year and Date: 2008-08-28
• [Presentation] ワークショップ : インストラクション場面における『職業的/専門的な見方』とその組織化の様相 (2007)
  • Author(s): 柳町智治
  • Organizer: 第20回社会言語科学会研究大会
  • Place of Presentation: 関西学院大学
  • Year and Date: 2007-09-16
• [Presentation] 留学生による「職業的な見方」の組織化:理系実験室と飲食店での事例から (2007)
  • Author(s): 柳町智治
  • Organizer: 社会言語科学会第20回研究大会ワークショップ「インタラクション場面における「職業的/専門的な見方」とその組織化の様相」
  • Place of Presentation: 関西学院大学西宮上が原キャンパス(西宮市)
  • Year and Date: 2007-09-16
• [Presentation] 会話への参加を組織化する能力-第二言語話者の場合- (2007)
  • Author(s): 柳町智治
  • Organizer: ISCAR第1回国際アジア大会「企画セッション:実践のフィールドワーク」
  • Place of Presentation: 武藤工業大学横浜キャンパス(横浜市)
  • Year and Date: 2007-09-06
• [Book] 日本語教育の過去・現在・未来 第3巻 教室 (2009)
  • Author(s): 小林ミナ・衣川隆生・池上摩希子・島田徳子・古川嘉子・森本郁代・柳町智治・山内博之
  • Publisher: 凡人社
• [Book] 日本語教育の過去・現在・未来 第5巻 文法 (2009)
  • Author(s): 小林ミナ・日比谷潤子・岡田みさを・小野正樹・坂口和寛・名嶋義直・山田敏弘
  • Publisher: 凡人社