A Study of Conversational Competence: The construction of Interpersonal Relationships in Intercultural Settings

本研究调查了日本学生和在日本居住并在大学学习的外国学生的会话能力。本研究通过会话分析法，描述了学生在跨文化语境中的交际实践的特点，探讨了会话参与者如何通过会话构建或发展彼此之间的关系。首先，将讨论日本和国际学生如何进行随意的谈话，同时通过谈话展示他们的关系，如朋友。它还将表明，谁是日语的第二语言的国际学生可以利用各种语言和非语言资源，并实现熟练的谈话。其次，本研究将概述参与者在大学生活中的几种谈话类型的特点，如小组讨论。

This study investigates the conversational competence of Japanese students and international students who reside in Japan and study in universities. Through the conversation analytic approach, this study describes the features of the students' interactional practices in intercultural settings, and discusses how the conversational participants can construct or develop their relationship with each other through the conversations. Firstly, it will be discussed how Japanese and international students conduct the casual conversations while they display their relationship such as friends through the talk. It will also be shown that international students who are second language speakers of Japanese can utilize a variety of linguistic and nonlinguistic resources and achieve skilled talk. Secondly, this study will outline the features of several types of talk which happen in the participants' university life, such as group discussions.