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In order to supplement the decreasing working population, there are more and more foreigner workers working in Japanese society. In such a situation where small numbers of foreigner workers need to work with Japanese people as the majority, inefficiency of the group occurs due to language or cultural barriers. This work-in-progress project collects a data corpus for understanding the problems may occur in this “unbalanced” group work and aims to provide computer aided support in the future. We collected 8.5 h of the task-oriented conversation of small groups in the following settings: one Chinese speaker/three Japanese talking in Japanese (C-J), four Chinese speakers talking in Chinese (C-C), and four Japanese talking in Japanese (J-J). In this specific paper, we analyzed a subset (9 15-min discussion sessions) of the data corpus to see the activity changes between C-J and C-C settings.
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This research is partially supported by KAKENHI: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Grant No. 19H01120.
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Huang, HH., Pei, ZY., Kuwabara, K. (2021). Activity Comparison of the Participants Using Japanese as L2 and Their L1 in Group Discussion. In: Meiselwitz, G. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media: Applications in Marketing, Learning, and Health. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12775. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77685-5_17
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