LANGUAGE  PROGRAM  COLLOQUIUM  SERIES  

MIDORI  ISHIDA  SANTA  CLARA  UNIVERSITY  

This   paper   explores   the   issue   of   roles   of   social   interaction   for   developing   pragmatic  competence  in  a  second  language.  As  an  example,  it  examines  interactions  between  a  learner  of  Japanese  and  native  speakers,   focusing  on  ‘receipts’,  or  a  kind  of   listener  responses  (e.g.  soo  desu  ne  [That’s  true]).  A  learner’s  conversations  recorded  during  one-­‐year  study  abroad  in   Japan   and   recorded   in   the   U.S.   before   and   after   the   period   were   analyzed   using  conversation  analysis.    Even  though  corrective  feedback  was  rarely  provided  to  the  learner’s  inappropriate  receipt  use,  his  interlocutor’s  next-­‐turn  action  served  as  implicit  feedback  and  provided   him   an   opportunity   for   a   more   competent   action.   Moreover,   although   not  interactionally   modified,   the   interlocutor’s   utterances   and   embodied   actions   provide  comprehensible  linguistic  resources  that  the  L2  speaker  can  draw  on  when  performing  similar  actions.   Midori  Ishida  earned  her  Ph.D.  in  Second  Language  Acquisition  at  the  University  of  Hawai‘i  at  Mānoa.  Her  research   interests   include   interlanguage  pragmatics,  conversation  analysis,  and  the   roles   of   interaction   in   second   language   acquisition.   Her  works   have   been   published   in  Language   Learning,  Pragmatics   and   Language   Learning,   the   Encyclopedia   of   Applied  Linguistics,   and   other  edited   books.  She   is   currently   teaching   Japanese   at   Santa   Clara  University.  

NOVEMBER   25 ,   2013    5 : 15PM  

 HUMAN IT IE S  1 ,  RM  408