We plan to have three presentations.
This presentation examines student response to teacher questions in Japanese elementary school English classes, and describes the process by which students reach the “correct” answer. The data come from 22 hours of recorded interaction. Analyses revealed a preference for selected speaker response over progressivity of interaction. When selected students had obvious trouble in answering teacher questions, instead of providing the answers to prioritize the progressivity of interaction, non-selected students as well as teachers cooperated to assist the selected students to answer.
The present study addresses the issue of how pregnant women raise their relevant concerns in regular prenatal checkups, that is, in the context where the reason for a visit to a health care provider is not a problem which the pregnant women have and have to reveal during the visit; the reason for each visit is transparent from the outset, that is, to have a prenatal checkup. Through the analysis of 42 regular prenatal checkups in Japan, I examine a set of practices by which pregnant women make use of the sequential position provided by the health care providers' initiation of problem presentations, and take the initiative in presenting their problems: Practices of expanding the response to the health care provider's inquiry. I will focus on some possible interactional limitations that are intrinsically involved in these practices.
I investigate pre-linguistic infants (INs) interacting with caregivers (CGs), and demonstrate that INs’ natural reactions (R) (laughing, crying, gazing) function as proto turn-taking devices to co-create unique three-turn proto-sequences Acting-on, Response, Praise (A-R-P) while interacting with CG's, thus fostering INs’ sociality. Underlying this research is the assumption that INs’ proto-turns are biological; they require no cognition. Further, I claim that these proto-turns ground mature (conversational) turn-taking, and further, foster elaboration of more sophisticated institutional interactional forms. I here wish to demonstrate one case of the A-R-P proto-sequence.
If anybody is interested in bringing their own data, analyses, observations, arguments, or whatever, to a next meeting to discuss together, please contact Aug Nishizaka at augnish(a)soc.meijigakuin.ac.jp.