Developing Interactional Competence in a Japanese Study Abroad Context

✍ Scribed by Naoko Taguchi

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 183
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the topic of interactional competence in the area of learning Japanese as a second language. It presents data collected from learners studying abroad in Japan to explain developments in their interactional competence as found in their use of speech styles and co-construction of an utterance.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Interactional Competence in a Japanese Study Abroad
2. Linguistic and Interactional Resources in Japanese Conversation: Speech Styles and Incomplete Sentence Endings
3. Context of the Study: Study Abroad as a Site for Language Learning
4. Methods
5. Speech Styles
6. Style-Shifting Across Discourse Boundaries
7. Incomplete Sentences in Joint Turn Construction
8. Case Histories of Interactional Development and Study Abroad Experience
9. Conclusion
Appendix A: Transcription Conventions
Appendix B: Conversation Task
Appendix C: Motivation Survey
Appendix D: Japanese Contact Survey
Appendix E: Proportion of the Utterance-Ending Forms by Individuals: Polite Forms, Plain Forms and Incomplete Endings
References
Index

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