Observational study of university students' interactional competence: Short-time and longitudinal study

本研究运用会话分析的框架，考察了大学生在模拟真实商务谈判的讨论任务中的插话能力。本研究分析的数据来自三年来收集的大约160小时的英语课堂互动视频。分析表明：（a）学生通过运用各种语言和非语言资源来展示他们的英语交际能力;（B）为学生提供这种讨论任务可以为课堂外使用语言创造条件;（c）文部科学省的政策已经开始反映在学生的英语交际能力中，会话分析法对于阐明第二语言使用者的会话能力以及考察学生对政府语言政策的实际执行程度至关重要。

Using the framework of Conversation Analysis, this study examined university students' interactional competence during discussion tasks that simulate real-world business negotiations. The data analyzed for this study came from approximately 160 hours of video-recorded English classroom interaction in small-group discussion tasks collected over three years. The analysis demonstrated that (a) the students displayed their interactional competence in English through the deployment of various verbal and nonverbal resources, (b) providing students with this kind of discussion task may create conditions for routinizing language use that can be applicable outside the classroom, (c) the MEXT policy has begun to be reflected in students' interactional competence, and (d) the Conversation Analysis method is crucial for elucidating the second language speakers' interactional competence as well as examining the degree of students' actual implementation of the government's language policies.