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Yoshiyuki Hara – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This present study closely examines a particular type of institutionalized interactions for second language (L2) learning, namely one-on-one instructional sessions between instructors and learners of Japanese at an intensive summer study abroad program in Japan. During these sessions, both instructors and learners employ various form-focused…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods
Vo, Sonca Thanh – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Studies of interaction in speaking assessment have highlighted problems regarding the unequal distribution of interaction patterns in interviews versus paired formats (Van Lier, 1989; Young & He, 1998). These studies, however, only looked at verbal interaction features, and no attempts in these studies were made to investigate both verbal and…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Verbal Communication, Speech Communication, Speech Evaluation
Murayama, Emi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation uses conversation analysis as a theoretical and methodological framework to examine the organization of in-house business meetings that are conducted in Japanese. In particular, this study focuses on how institutionality becomes apparent within the participants' interactions. The data consists of six videotaped in-house…
Descriptors: Japanese, Business Communication, Discourse Analysis, Video Technology
Ju, Hee – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation explores co-construction of a situated activity in a current unit by mainly focusing on hearers' actions. The "co-construction" involves a process of interaction in which speakers and hearers jointly construct the form and the meaning of ongoing utterances even when they disagree with each other (Jacoby & Ochs,…
Descriptors: Korean, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Language Classification, Correlation
Nakamura, Kanae – ProQuest LLC, 2009
While the predicate-final structure of the Japanese language has been considered one of the main causes of its late projectability (Tanaka, 1999), this study demonstrates that the final predicate component of a "turn constructional unit" (TCU) furnishes a useful resource for conversational participants to negotiate various aspects of interaction.…
Descriptors: Syntax, Linguistics, Interaction, Japanese
Koike, Chisato – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study investigates how "unknowing" story recipients (C. Goodwin, 1979) use different types of questions in order to actively participate in storytelling and collaboratively construct a story when a storyteller is relaying his or her past experience, by examining grammar, intonation, gaze, body movements, and sequence organization in Japanese…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Japanese, Discourse Analysis, Story Telling