* Note that the date is not Saturday, that the meeting will start at 2:00 pm, and that the room is different from the usual one.
Meiji Gakuin University, TokyoWe plan to have two presentations and one data session.
I would like to examine some sequential positions and the constructions of other-initiated problem presentations by pregnant women in regular prenatal checkups. The CA literature has focused on primary care acute visits, but regular prenatal checkups are different from these visits in that the problems that the pregnant women may have are not the reasons for their visits to the medical professional, and that therefore there are no sequectial positions specifically provided for problem presentations. My previous study focused on how pregnant women in prenatal checkups fit their problem presentations into the development of interaction, and initiate their problem presentations. This study rather focuses on where the medical professionals, obstetricians or midwives, initiate the women's problem presentations and how the women present their problems in response to the medical professionals' inquiries.
In this presentation, I will look at segments of interaction among English has a foreign language students. The students have been given assignments in which they are required to discuss something in English. The presentation looks at some of the ways in which these students, in spite of their fairly limited proficiency in English, use the resources that they have available to them for the sophisticated accomplishment of interaction.
"Assessments in infant/caregiver interaction: what are they doing"
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.