TAKEI Mitsuko
   Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Global and Community Studies
   Position   Professor
Language Japanese
Publication Date 2020/09
Type Articles
Title L1 Japanese speakers’ behaviors and awareness in contact situations: A pedagogical implication for multicultural co-learning courses
Contribution Type Co-Authored Publication
Journal Studies in the Humanities and Sciences
Journal TypeJapan
Publisher Hiroshima Shudo University
Volume, Issue, Pages 61(1),1-15頁
Number of pages 15
Author and coauthor Takei, Mitsuko & Fujiwara, Miho
Details This paper attempts to characterize L1 Japanese speakers’ roles perceived in contact situations and their behaviors in project-based interactions with Japanese learners, by analyzing two sets of video-recorded three-person conversation data in a pseudo multicultural co-learning setting. In the analysis, the focus is on the L1 speakers’ speakership/listenership behaviors in relation to their role perceptions, attitudes and awareness investigated from their remarks made in the follow-up interviews. Particular attention is given to the language behaviors represented by the utterance ratio, and the use of aizuchi (backchannelling) and interrogative expressions in contact situations. The contrastive analysis result of the two data sets is presented as potential pedagogical implications for multicultural co-learning practice.