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GREER Timothy
Institute for Promotion of Higher Education / School of Languages and Communication
Professor

Researcher basic information

■ Degree
  • DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
■ Research Keyword
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Second Language Learning
  • 会話分析
  • Conversation Analysis
■ Research Areas
  • Humanities & social sciences / Foreign language education
■ Committee History
  • 全国語学教育学会(JALT)語用論研究会, HP編集長
  • 全国語学教育学会(JALT)バイリンガリズム研究会, HP編集長
  • 全国語学教育学会(JALT)語用論研究会, 研究会長

Research activity information

■ Paper
  • Zachary Nanbu, Tim Greer
    Corresponding, Nov. 2024, Research on Language and Social Interaction, 57(4) (4), 345 - 371, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Tim Greer
    John Benjamins Publishing Company, Mar. 2023, Applied Pragmatics, 5(2) (2), 202 - 207
    Scientific journal

  • Classroom-based conversation analytic research: Theoretical and applied perspectives on pedagogy (Silvia Kunitz, Numa Markee and Olcay Sert)
    Tim Greer
    2023, 45(1) (1), 158 - 160
    [Invited]
    Scientific journal


  • The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership.
    Greer, Tim, Wagner, Johannes
    Lead, 2023, Second Language Research
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Greer, Tim, Nanbu, Zachary
    Lead, 2023, Modern Language Journal, 106(S1) (S1), 69 - 88, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Amar, Cheikhna, Nanbu, Zachary, Greer, Tim
    Oct. 2022, Classroom Discourse, 13(3) (3), 264 - 292, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Multimodal action formation in second language talk: Japanese speakers' use of the gassho gesture in English apology sequences
    Tim Greer
    Corresponding, Feb. 2022, Social Interaction: Video-based Studies of Human Sociality, 5(1) (1), English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • How do raters understand rubrics for assessing L2 interactional engagement? A comparative study of CA- and non-CA-formulated performance descriptors
    Sandlund, E, Greer, T
    Last, 2020, Papers in Language Testing and Assessment, 9(1) (1), 132 - 166, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Inscribed objects as resources for achieving progressivity in lesson plan talk
    Tim Greer, Christopher Leyland
    Corresponding, 2020, Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 14(2) (2), 200 - 229
    [Refereed]


  • "And boys wore gakuran": Mot juste formulations as recalibration repair in bilingual interaction
    GREER TIMOTHY
    Oct. 2018, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Muliculturalism, 24(1) (1), 26 - 47, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Learning to say grace
    GREER TIMOTHY
    May 2018, Social Interaction:Video-bases Studies of Human Sociality, 1(1) (1), English
    [Refereed][Invited]
    Scientific journal

  • Naming an activity: Arriving at recognitionals in team-teacher planning talk
    Tim Greer
    Based on a video-recorded corpus of pre-class planning sessions, this study focuses on how team-teachers from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds accomplish the interactional task of identifying and explaining pedagogical activities they will later teach together during an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) lesson. Since a basic issue for these teachers is arriving a
    2018, Journal of Pragmatics, 126, 52 - 67, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Interactional competence in Japanese as an additional language: An overview
    GREER TIMOTHY
    National Foreign Language Resource Center, Dec. 2017, Interactional competence in Japanese as an additional language (Pragmatics & Interaction Series), 4, 369 - 407, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • L1 speaker turn design and emergent familiarity in second language Japanese interaction
    GREER TIMOTHY
    Whenever we meet someone for the first time we adjust the way we talk based on our emergent understandings of our interlocutor and in subsequent meetings we may greet them in a different way, given what we now know about them. The way we formulate each turn makes public our growing familiarity with the person to whom we are talking. This may be displayed through the politeness
    National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2017, Interactional competence in Japanese as an additional language, 369 - 407, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Tim Greer
    Sep. 2016, Linguistics & Education, 35, 78 - 87, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Christopher Leyland, Tim Greer, Ellen Rettig-Miki
    Routledge, Jan. 2016, Classroom Discourse, 7(1) (1), 85 - 107, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Appealing to a broker: Initiating third-person repair in mundane second language interaction
    GREER TIMOTHY
    2015, Novitas ROYAL, 9(1) (1), 1 - 14, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Forward-oriented medium repair in Japanese/English bilingual interaction
    GREER TIMOTHY, Sasuga Mayuri
    JALT Bilingualism SIG, Oct. 2014, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, 20(1) (1), 1 - 16, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Designing an Interaction-centered Classroom
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT CUE SIG, 2014, OnCue Journal, 7(1) (1), 40 - 46, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal


  • Establishing a pattern of dual-receptive language alternation: Insights from a series of successive haircuts
    GREER TIMOTHY
    2013, Australian Journal of Communication, 40(2) (2), 47 - 61, English
    [Refereed][Invited]
    Scientific journal

  • ACCOMPLISHING MULTIETHNIC IDENTITY IN MUNDANE TALK: HALF-JAPANESE TEENAGERS AT AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
    Tim Greer
    Sep. 2012, PRAGMATICS, 22(3) (3), 371 - 390, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Identity in Interculturality: Using (lackof) cultural knowledge to disalign with an identity category
    GREER Tim
    Mar. 2010, The Language Teacher, 34(3) (3), 3 - 8, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Receipt through Repetition
    Tim Greer, Vivian Bussinguer, Jeff Butterfield, Agnes Mischinger
    JALT, May 2009, JALT Journal, 31・1・5-34(1) (1), 5 - 34, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Pronunciation Tasks for Academic Study Skills
    Tim Greer
    Sep. 2008, JALT2007 Conference Proceedings, 5, English
    [Refereed]
    International conference proceedings

  • Tim Greer
    2008, MULTILINGUA-JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL AND INTERLANGUAGE COMMUNICATION, 27(1-2) (1-2), 99 - 127, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Tim Greer, Usui Yoshiko, Kato Toki, Taniguchi Hitomi, Vivian Bussinger S Andrade
    Kobe University, Mar. 2006, Journal of School of Languages and Communication, Kobe University, 2・1・15, 27 - 42, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • The Multi-Ethnic Paradox: Towards a fluid notion of being 'haafu'
    GREER, Timothy S
    全国語学教育学会バイリンガリズム研究部会, Oct. 2005, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, 11, p.1-18(1) (1), 1 - 18, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Four studies into multi-ethnic identity in Japan
    GREER, Timothy S
    Aug. 2005, JALT2004 Conference Proceedings, , 全1305(949p-961p), English
    [Refereed]
    International conference proceedings

  • Applying Conversation Analysis to Non-Native and Bilingual Talk
    HOSODA, KASPER, GREER, BARROWS, CHARLEBOIS
    Aug. 2005, JALT2004 Conference Proceedings, , 全1305(485p-499p), English
    [Refereed]
    International conference proceedings

  • Co-constructing Identity: The use of 'haafu' by a group of bilingual multi-ethnic Japanese teenagers
    GREER, Timothy S
    May 2005, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism Arizona State University, p. 948-963, English
    [Refereed]
    International conference proceedings

  • A quick way to improve /r/ and /l/ pronunciation
    GREER, Timothy S
    Aug. 2004, The Internet TESL Journal, X・8, online, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Using Self Appraisal to Assess a Disparate Group of Learners
    GREER, Timothy S
    Apr. 2004, The Language Teacher, 28.4, 19-20, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Transcription Approaches to Multilingual Discourse Analysis
    GREER, Timothy S
    Jan. 2004, Proceedings of The Kyoto JALT Pan-SIG conference., , p.46-50, English
    [Refereed]
    International conference proceedings

  • Haafu empty or haafu full? An applied conversation analysis of multi-ethnic Japanese attitudes towards the word haafu
    GREER, Timothy S
    Nov. 2003, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, 9.1, p.1-23, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Socio-Interactional Approaches to Understanding Codeswitching
    GREER, Timothy S
    北海道大学英語英米文学研究会, 2003, The Northern Review, 31.1, 12月28日(31) (31), 13 - 28, English
    Scientific journal

  • What Should I Call You? Self-applied and Other-applied referents for biracial Japanese
    GREER, Timothy S
    Dec. 2001, JALT Hokkaido Proceedings, , 29-36, English
    [Refereed]
    International conference proceedings

  • Half, Double or Somewhere In-between? Multi-faceted identities among biracial Japanese
    GREER, Timothy S
    Nov. 2001, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, 7.1, p.1-17, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

■ MISC
  • Tim Greer
    2013, International Journal of Bilingualism, 17(2) (2), 237 - 244, English
    [Refereed][Invited]
    Introduction scientific journal

  • Part Asian 100% Hapa
    Timothy S Greer
    Nov. 2006, The Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, 12 1 103-105, English
    [Refereed]
    Introduction scientific journal

  • Dangerous English: Swearwords, taboo language and the EFL learner
    GREER, Timothy S
    Hokkaido University, Jul. 2001, Irwin, M., (ed.) The English You Didn’t Learn in School. Hokkaido University: Language and Culture Studies Series 43., , 7月26日, 7 - 25, English
    [Refereed]
    Others

  • Authentic or Contrived? An analysis of the rhetorical discourse features evident in written texts used in a beginning ESL class
    GREER, Timothy S
    Mar. 2001, The Journal of Otaru Junior College, XXX.1, 15-28, English
    Report scientific journal

  • Bilingual Education Programs. A comparison of three classroom models
    GREER, Timothy S
    小樽短期大学, Mar. 2000, The Journal of Otaru Junior College, XXIX.1, 27-37(29) (29), 27 - 37, English
    Report scientific journal

  • Letter Chains. A first lesson in using web-based email
    GREER, Timothy S
    2000, Ryan, K. (ed.) Recipes for Wired Teachers Tokyo: JALT CALL SIG., , 58-59, English
    [Refereed]
    Others

■ Books And Other Publications
  • Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective
    Greer, T, Ogawa, Y
    Joint work, Managing peripheral recipiency in triadic multilingual storytelling, Routledge, Jun. 2022

  • Dealing with disaligned and misaligned recipiency: Storytelling in homestay contexts
    Joint work, 337-374, Springer, 2022

  • Second Language Pragmatics and English Language Education in East Asia
    Greer, T, Nanbu, Z
    Joint work, General and explicit test prompts: Some consequences for topic management in paired EFL discussion tests, Routledge, Dec. 2020

  • Conversation Analytic Perspectives on English Language Learning, Teaching and Testing in Global Contexts
    GREER TIMOTHY
    Joint work, Multilingual Matters, Mar. 2019, English
    Scholarly book

  • Conversation analytic research on learning-in-action: The complex ecology of L2 interaction in the wild
    Tim Greer
    Joint work, Noticing words in the wild, Springer, 2019

  • Hapa Japan
    GREER TIMOTHY
    Contributor, Kaya Press, Mar. 2017, English
    Scholarly book

  • 英語百科
    GREER TIMOTHY
    Others, 大修館, 2017, Japanese
    Dictionary or encycropedia

  • Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
    GREER TIMOTHY
    Editor, JALT Bilingualism SIG, 2017, English
    Scholarly book

  • Interactional Competence in Japanese as an Additional Language
    GREER TIMOTHY
    Joint editor, National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2017, English
    Scholarly book

  • Friendship and Peer Culture in Multilingual Settings
    GREER TIMOTHY
    Others, Emerald, 2016, English, Purpose With an extensive range of information available at the swipe of a finger, the smartphone has become a ubiquitous tool for augmenting conversation. Users of English as a lingua franca (ELF) often rely on such technology to help establish friendships by using them to sustain intersubjectivity. But how do they manage the multiple involvements this entails, such as partici
    Scholarly book

  • GREER TIMOTHY
    Others, John Benjamins, 2016, English, Based on a collection of cases taken from 12 hours of video-recorded interaction, this study examines some of the ways that Japanese novice L2 speakers of English employ prosodic variations of the information receipt particle “oh” to socially accomplish awe in L2 (English) interaction. “Oh” has been widely recognized in Conversation Analysis as a change-of-state token (Heritag, ISBN: 9789027256713
    Scholarly book

  • Pursuing a relevant response in OPI roleplays
    GREER TIMOTHY, Okada Yusuke
    Joint work, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov. 2013, English, ISBN: 9781137352132
    Scholarly book

  • Pragmatics and language learning (Vol. 13)
    GREER TIMOTHY, Tatsuki Donna, Roever Carsten
    Others, University of Hawai'i, National Foreign Language Resource Center, Apr. 2013, English, "Pragmatic awareness of Japanese EFL learners in relation to individual difference factors: A cluster analytic approach."(pp.245-265)を担当。, ISBN: 9780983581642
    Scholarly book

  • Pragmatics and Language Learning
    GREER TIMOTHY
    Joint editor, National Foreign Language Resource Center (Honolulu), 2013, English, ISBN: 9780983581642
    Scholarly book

  • The What? Clarifying meaning with partial-repeat WH questions
    GREER Tim
    Joint work, JALT Pragmatics SIG, Dec. 2012, English
    Scholarly book

  • Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
    Tim Greer
    Joint work, JALT Bilingualism SIG, Oct. 2010, English
    Scholarly book

  • Observing Talk: Conversation Analytic Studies into Second Language Learning
    Tim Greer
    Editor, JALT Pragmatics SIG, Oct. 2010, English
    Scholarly book

  • Pragmatics and Language Learning
    Tim Greer
    Joint work, University of Hawai'i Press, Jul. 2010, English
    Scholarly book

  • "I don't trust you but could you put it like this?" Accomplishing (non)nativeness in bilingual interaction
    Tim Greer
    Single work, Journal of the School of Languages and Communication, Kobe University, Apr. 2008, English
    Scholarly book

  • Accomplishing Identity in Bilingual Interaction: Codeswitching practices among a group of multiethnic Japanese teenagers
    Greer Timothy
    Single work, University of Southern Queensland, Australia., Sep. 2007, English
    Others

  • Crown Plus 2
    YAMAMOTO, Shiro, WILSON, Brendan, GREER, Timothy, YAMAYA, Izumi
    Joint work, 三省堂, Apr. 2007, Japanese
    Textbook

  • "Part Asian _100% Hapa" (Kip Fulbeck)
    GREER, Timothy
    Joint work, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, Nov. 2006, English
    Scholarly book

  • Crown Plus 1
    YAMAMOTO, Shiro, WILSON, Brendan, GREER, Timothy, ISHII, Tomoko, YAMAYA, Izumi
    Joint work, 三省堂, Apr. 2006, English
    Textbook

  • Crown Plus 1
    Timothy S Greer
    Joint work, Sanseido, Mar. 2006, English
    Textbook

  • Dangerous English: Swearwords, taboo language and the EFL learner
    Timothy S Greer
    Single work, Hokkaido University, Jul. 2001, English
    Scholarly book

  • Letter Chains: A first lesson in using web-based email
    Timothy S Greer
    Joint work, JAKT CALL SIG, May 2000, English
    Scholarly book

■ Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
  • Giving directions in a virtual world: Resources for managing fragmented perception
    Tim Greer
    4th Conference on Discourse, Culture, Interaction (DCI4), Dec. 2024
    Oral presentation

  • Explicit grammar teaching moments in mundane L2 talk
    Tim Greer
    4th ICOP-L2 Conference, Jun. 2024
    Oral presentation

  • On materiality, morphability and ephemerality in L2 role-plays: Enlisting environmental objects and their mimed counterparts
    Tim Greer, Eric Hauser, Zack Nanbu
    ICOP-L2, Jun. 2024
    Oral presentation

  • Cooking, offering and eating together: Foregrounding and backgrounding activity within multi-party talk
    Tim Greer
    7th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, May 2024, English
    Oral presentation

  • Strong and weak displays of understanding and learning in mundane L2 talk
    Tim Greer
    Thinking, Doing, Learning, Jun. 2024
    Oral presentation

  • L2 sidebar talk and distributed perception in a virtual reality game
    Tim Greer
    6th CAN Asia Symposium on Second Language Interaction, May 2023
    Oral presentation

  • Collaboratively imagining what another is seeing: L2 sidebar talk in a virtual reality game
    Tim Greer
    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, May 2023
    Invited oral presentation

  • Tokyo Global Gateway and the effectiveness of experience-based learning
    Motoko Nagao, Tim Greer
    19th International Session of the Transcultural Management Society, May 2023
    Invited oral presentation

  • Marked re-occasionings of learnables in a cooking-for-learning context
    Tim Greer, Zachary Nanbu
    American Association of Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2023
    Nominated symposium

  • Participation on the periphery
    Greer, Tim
    ICOP-L2, 2022, English
    [Invited]
    Keynote oral presentation

  • Teaching assistants as interactional mediators.
    Greer, Tim
    5th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, May 2022, English
    Oral presentation

  • “I don't know word”: How L2 learners recruit assistance to address reading difficulties.
    Amar, Cheihhna, Greer, Tim
    5th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, May 2022, English
    Oral presentation

  • Conversation Analysis (CA)-informed language assessment
    Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University Sokla, Thailand, Feb. 2022, English
    Public discourse

  • Designing Obstacles to Progressivity.
    Tim Greer
    Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England, Feb. 2022, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • Conversation Analysis: How can it help with English language teaching?
    Tim Greer
    Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University Sokla, Jan. 2022, English
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • General and explicit test prompts: Their consequences for turn-taking and topic management in paired EFL discussion tests.
    Nanbu, Zachary, Greer, Tim
    AILA World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Aug. 2021, English
    Oral presentation

  • Coaxing competence: "Feigned" non-understanding in roleplay interaction
    Greer, Tim
    AILA 2020 Congress, 2021, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • Visualizing turn construction: Seeing writing while speaking
    Tim Greer, Zachary Nanbu
    International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) conference. Winterthur, Switzerland, (online), Jul. 2021, English
    Nominated symposium

  • Study abroad interactions in the life world.
    Tim Greer, Johannes Wagner
    International Pragmatics Verbal/Visual Interaction (MOVIN) conference, Jun. 2021, English
    Nominated symposium

  • "So canoe": On the expert deployment of minimal linguistic resources
    Tim Greer, Zachary Nanbu
    CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, online, Mar. 2021, English
    Oral presentation

  • Using a conversation analytic exemplar-based rubric to assess engagement in a paired EFL test
    Tim Greer
    7th British Council New Directions in English Language Assessment, Dec. 2019, English
    Oral presentation

  • Sequentiality, Contingency and responsiveness: A conversation analytic take on student engagement in EFL discussion test contexts
    ALAA conference, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 25-27 November., Nov. 2019, English
    Oral presentation

  • Operationalizing engagement: Evidence from test raters' deliberations
    Tim Greer
    2nd ICOP-L2 conference, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden, May 2019, English
    Oral presentation

  • Embodying gradations of knowledge in novice EFL conversation
    Tim Greer, Zachary Nanbu
    2nd ICOP-L2 conference, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden, May 2019, English
    Oral presentation

  • Mapping understanding: Embodied action and place reference in second language interaction
    Tim Greer, Zachary Nanbu
    3rd CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction; Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, May 2019, English
    Oral presentation

  • Rater understandings of rubrics for assessing L2 interactional competence: A comparative study of study of CA- and non-CA-formulated performance descriptors.
    Tim Greer, Erica Sandlund
    American Association of Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2019, English, Atlanta, USA, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Assessing engagement in EFL oral tests
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT International Conference, Nov. 2018, English, Granship Shizuoka, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Aligning, disaligning and misaligning with a telling
    GREER TIMOTHY
    Australasian Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, Nov. 2018, English, Macau University, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • "Wait, what?" (re)initiating repair on a trouble source
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT International Conference, Nov. 2018, English, Granship Shizuoka, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Pre-emptive self-reformulation in homestay dinner-table talk
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT Study Abroad SIG Conference, Sep. 2018, English, Notre Dame Women's University, Kyoto, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Closing up testing: Orientation to a timer during a paired EFL oral proficiency test
    GREER TIMOTHY
    International Conference of Conversation Analysis (ICCA), Jul. 2018, English, Loughborough University, UK, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Enlisting environmentally accessible objects to explain words
    GREER TIMOTHY
    CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, May 2018, English, Kyoto, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Explaining Japanese culture and language in a homestay context: A multimodal micro-longitudinal investigation
    GREER TIMOTHY
    American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Mar. 2018, English, Chicago, USA, When Japanese students travel abroad for short-term study tours, one of their common concerns is how best to introduce aspects of Japanese culture to their homestay host families. This study uses multimodal conversation analysis to track the mealtime interaction during one such homestay video-recorded in Australia in 2016. The analysis focuses in particular on the multimodal re, International conference
    [Invited]
    Nominated symposium

  • Shifting Constellations in Triadic L2 Interaction
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT International Conference, Nov. 2017, English, Tsukuba Convention Hall, Japan, This presentation will use multi-modal Conversation Analysis to examine video-recordings of triadic L2 interaction in hairdressing settings. The focus will be on third-person repair sequences in which a peripheral stylist who is observing the cut momentarily shifts the participant constellation to take part in a conversation between the main stylist and the client in order to c, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Multiple Involvements in Test Closings
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT International Conference, Nov. 2017, English, Tsukuba Convention Hall, Japan, This presentation will explore how oral proficiency test-takers in an EFL context orient to the institutional nature of the test through their talk. The dataset consists of 73 five-minute discussion tests video-recorded among pairs of first-year students at a Japanese university. The test aims to engage the students in free talk about one of eight topics covered in class. A tim, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Initiating and Delivering News of the Day: Interactional Competence as Joint-Development
    GREER TIMOTHY
    International Pragmatics Association, Jul. 2017, English, Belfast, UK, One common interactional activity that forms part of the nightly ritual in many family groups involves delivering news of the day. Often initiated with formulations such as "How was your day?", co-members of a family (or similar group) will tell each other stories concerning matters and events that have happened to them during the period they have been apart. On the surface thi, International conference
    [Invited]
    Nominated symposium

  • Naming an Activity: Arriving at Recognitionals in Team-teacher Planning Talk
    GREER TIMOTHY
    CAN-Asia Symposium, May 2017, English, Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Learning to say grace: A micro-longitudinal study of interactional competences in a family-specific speech event
    GREER TIMOTHY
    ICOP L2 Conference, Jan. 2017, English, Neuchatel University, Switzerland, Children in bilingual families are often called upon to explain social mores and acculturate outsiders into their cultural practices. This study aims to shed light on some of the ways this is accomplished interactionally by observing how a Mexican immigrant family in Australia socialises a Japanese visitor into their family practice of saying grace. The study adopts a longitud, International conference
    [Invited]
    Nominated symposium

  • Learning to say grace
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT International Conference, Nov. 2016, English, Nagoya, This study uses longitudinal conversation analysis to track one Japanese homestay student's acculturation into the cultural ritual of saying grace. Based on a detailed analysis of a series of video-recorded dinner table conversations, the presentation will demonstrate how the homestay student moves from peripheral observer to a more active participant in this community of pract, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Apologies and stakes in L2 interaction
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT International Conference, Nov. 2016, English, Nagoya, Domestic conference
    [Invited]
    Nominated symposium

  • Translating the International University to the Local Community
    GREER TIMOTHY
    UK-Japan Seminar on Intercultural Communication and Internationa Universities, Sep. 2016, English, Newcastle University, UK, Universities in the 21st Century are increasingly globalized institutions that cater to an international community of scholars. However, such communities do not exist in a vacuum, and quite often students from outside the host country find themselves in situations where they have to explain details about the university to local people who are not affiliated with it. This can le, International conference
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • Apologies in Homestay Contexts
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT Study Abroad SIG Conference, Sep. 2016, English, Lakeland University, Tokyo, Living in a homestay means that students will inevitably make social mistakes, and many pre-sojourn language courses therefore teach them ways to apologize in the target language. But how do Japanese learners of English fare when they need to say sorry in real situations? This study uses the micro-socio-interactional approach known as Conversation Analysis (CA) to examine a cor, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Multiple Involvements: Learners using Smartphones
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT PanSIG Conference, May 2016, English, 全国語学学会, Meio University, Okinawa, The smartphone has become a ubiquitous tool for augmenting conversation. This presentation uses multimodal Conversation Analysis to investigate the way two learners, one Japanese and the other Indonesian, incorporate smartphones into their lingua franca English interaction. The analysis focuses particularly on their use of the smartphone in forward-oriented repair, including ho, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Multi-modal L2 Interaction
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT PanSIG Conference, May 2016, English, Meio University, Okinawa, Interaction, including second language interaction, involves more than just linguistic features of talk such as grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. Face-to-face communication also consists of a range of embodied practices, including gaze, posture, proximity, gesture, and use of physical objects. Layered over and within the talk, the complex nature of multimodal interaction p, Domestic conference
    [Invited]
    Nominated symposium

  • Pre-enactment and the use of physical artifacts in pre-class planning discussions
    GREER TIMOTHY, Leyland Chris
    JALT Okinawa Conference, Dec. 2015, English, Naha, Okinawa, Domestic conference
    Poster presentation

  • Turn design and emergent familiarity in L2 Japanese talk
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT Conference, Nov. 2015, English, Shizuokoa, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Progressing talk through joint focus of attention to a textual object: Topic shift in team teacher lesson planning meetings
    GREER TIMOTHY
    5th International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, Nov. 2015, English, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy,, International conference
    [Invited]
    Nominated symposium

  • Physical artifacts and ‘pre-enactment’ in team-teacher planning discussions
    GREER TIMOTHY
    IIEMCA, Aug. 2015, English, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, Co-present participants will sometimes orient to a written artifact (such as a book or a computer screen) as a means of furthering the talk. This sort of action commonly relies on a multimodal combination of both embodied and spoken interactional practices, and elements of the written language that are available to the participants via the artifact can subsequently become part, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Self-addressed Receipt in Forward-oriented Repair
    GREER TIMOTHY
    International Pragmatics Association, Jul. 2015, English, Antwerp, Belgium, International conference
    [Invited]
    Nominated symposium

  • Abandoning repair
    GREER TIMOTHY
    JALT PanSIG conference, May 2015, English, Kobe, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Stoking the fire: TA follow-up talk in group discussion tests
    GREER TIMOTHY, Leyland Chris
    American Association of Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2015, English, Toronto, Canada, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Recalibration in bilingual interaction: Other-medium formulations as precision
    GREER TIMOTHY
    American Association of Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2015, English, Toronto, Canada, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Bilingual Identity in Interaction
    GREER TIMOTHY
    ALT Hokkaido Understanding symposium on Bilingualism, Jan. 2015, English, Sapporo, Japan, Domestic conference
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

  • Integrating study abroad into an academic study skills program
    GREER TIMOTHY, Sholdt, Gregory, Wang, Marion
    Study Abroad SIG Mini Conference at Task Based Learning and Teaching in Asia, May 2014, English, Osaka, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Socially accomplishing "awe" in L2 talk
    Tim Greer
    American Association of Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2011, English, AAAL, Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Chicago USA, International conference
    Public symposium

  • From research to praxis: Taking conversation analysis to the classroom
    Tim Greer
    TUJ Applied Linguistics Colloquium, Feb. 2011, English, Temple University Japan, TUJ Osaka Campus, Domestic conference
    Public symposium

  • Establishing reference in L2 interaction
    Tim Greer
    Japan Association for Language Teaching International Conference, Nov. 2010, English, Japan Association for Language Teaching, Aichi Industry and Labor Center, Nagoya, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Oh or awe? An interactional practice for doing being impressed
    Tim Greer
    2nd L2 Talk Workshop, Mar. 2010, English, 神奈川大学, Kanagawa University Yokohama Campus, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Codeswitching and Medium-repair among Novice Speakers of English
    Tim Greer
    Korean Association of Language Teachers (KATE) International Conference, Jul. 2009, English, Korean Association of Language Teachers (KATE), Ewha University, Seoul, Korea, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Desigigning and developing materials for English study skills
    MURAKAMI, Masayuki, YOKOKAWA, Hirokazu, TIMOTHY, Greer, UCHIDA, Mitsumi, YAMAUCHI, Mari
    第23回日本教育工学会全国大会, Sep. 2007, Japanese, 日本教育工学会, 埼玉, 日本, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • I don’t trust you but could I put it like this? Accomplishing (non)nativeness in bilingual interaction
    Greer Timothy
    10th International Pragmatics Conference, Jul. 2007, English, International Pragmatics Association, ヨルテボリ市, スウェーデン, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Switching Languages, Juggling Identities: A sequence of multilingual, multi-party talk
    Greer Timothy
    The 17th Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference, Mar. 2007, English, ホノルル市, アメリカ, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Multiethnic Identity in Interaction: A CA perspective
    Greer Timothy
    Japan Association for Language Teaching International Conference, Nov. 2006, English, 全国語学教育学会, Kokura, Kita-Kyushu, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Suppressing Laughter in the Display of (Dis)afflitiation
    GREER, Timothy, USUI, Yoshiko
    Japan Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences, Aug. 2006, English, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Accomplishing Difference in Bilingual Interaction: Translation as backwards-oriented medium repair
    Greer Timothy
    16th Sociolinguistics Symposium, Jul. 2006, English, リメリック市, アイルランド, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Post-exclusionary Translation in Bilingual Interaction
    Greer Timothy
    JALT PanSIG Conference, May 2006, English, 全国語学学会, 清水市, 日本, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Bilingual Interaction: How do they communicate in Japanese and English?
    Timothy S Greer
    Invited public lecture, Okayama University, Jan. 2006, English, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, Domestic conference
    Invited oral presentation

  • Bilingual Interaction
    Timothy S Greer
    Japan Association of Language Teachers, Okayama Chapter, Dec. 2005, English, Okayama, Japan, Domestic conference
    Invited oral presentation

  • Institutionally justifying an English only policy at an international school
    Timothy S Greer
    Japan Association of Language Teachers, Nov. 2005, English, Timothy S Greer, Granship, Shizuoka, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Institutionally justifying an English only policy at an international school
    GREER, Timothy S
    Japan Association for Language Teaching National Conference, Oct. 2005, English, 全国語学教育学会, 静岡, 日本, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Bilingual Interaction”. Presented at the Japan Association for Language Teaching Okayama Chapter monthly meeting, Okayama, Japan,
    GREER, Timothy S
    Japan Association for Language Teaching, Feb. 2005, English, 全国語学教育学会, 岡山, 日本, Domestic conference
    Invited oral presentation

  • Multi-ethnic Identity in an International School
    Timothy S Greer
    Japan Association of Language Teachers, Nov. 2004, English, Tezuka University, Nara, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Multi-ethnic Identity in an International School
    GREER, Timothy S
    Japan Association for Language Teaching National Conference, Nov. 2004, English, 全国語学教育学会, 奈良, 日本, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Adapting the Doman Method with PowerPoint
    GREER, Timothy S
    Japan Association for Language Teaching National Conference, Nov. 2004, English, 全国語学教育学会, 奈良, 日本, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Accomplishing Discursive Identity in Bilingual Interaction
    GREER, Timothy S
    Japan Association for Language Teaching National Conference, Nov. 2004, English, 全国語学教育学会, 奈良, 日本, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Accomplishing discursive identity in bilingual interaction
    Timothy S Greer
    Japan Association of Language Teachers, Nov. 2004, English, Timothy S Greer, Tezuka University, Nara, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Stylized Japanese English among Multiethnic Japanese
    Timothy S Greer
    TUJ Applied Linguistics Colloquium, Feb. 2004, English, Temple University Japan, Tokyo, Japan., Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Stylized Japanese English among Multiethnic Japanese
    GREER, Timothy S
    TUJ Applied Linguistics Colloquium, Feb. 2004, English, 全国語学教育学会, 東京, 日本, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Ways Multi-ethnic Japanese teenagers discursively index cultural Identity
    GREER, Timothy S
    Japan Association for Language Teaching Hokkaido Conference, Nov. 2003, English, 全国語学教育学会, 札幌, 日本, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Using Peer-reviewed Group Portfolios for Speaking
    Timothy S Greer
    Japan Association of Language Teachers, Nov. 2003, English, Granship, Shizuoka, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Using Peer-reviewed Group Portfolios for Speaking
    GREER, Timothy S
    Japan Association for Language Teaching National Conference, Nov. 2003, English, 全国語学教育学会, 静岡, 日本, Domestic conference
    Poster presentation

  • Multi-ethnic Identity and an English-only Policy at an International School
    GREER, Timothy S
    The First International Conference on Pedagogy and Learning, Oct. 2003, English, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Multi-ethnic Japanese Teenagers: Bilingual conversation and identity
    GREER, Timothy S
    The JALT Hokkaido Forum on Bilingualism, Jun. 2003, English, 全国語学教育学会, 札幌, 日本, Domestic conference
    Invited oral presentation

  • Transcription Approaches to Multi-lingual Discourse Analysis
    GREER, Timothy S
    The Kyoto JALT Pan-SIG conference,, May 2003, English, 全国語学教育学会, 京都, 日本, Domestic conference
    Poster presentation

  • Co-constructing Identity: The use of 'haafu' by a group of bilingual multi-ethnic Japanese teenagers
    GREER, Timothy S
    The 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, May 2003, English, Arizona University, Tempe, アメリカ, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Co-constructing Identity: The use of 'haafu' by a group of bilingual multi-ethnic Japanese teenagers
    Timothy S Greer
    4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, May 2003, English, Arizona State University, Pheonix, Arizona USA, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Multicultural Japan
    GREER, Timothy S
    Hokkaido University International Summer School, Jul. 2002, English, 北海道大学, 札幌, 日本, Domestic conference
    Others

  • Half or Double? Chosen and Ascribed Referents for 'Biracial' Japanese
    GREER, Timothy S
    The Bilingual Development Forum, Kyoto, May 2002, English, 全国語学教育学会, 京都, 日本, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Biracial Identity: Second Language, Third Culture
    Timothy S Greer
    Japan Association of Language Teachers, Nov. 2001, English, Kokura, Kita-Kyushu, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Biracial Identity: Second Language, Third Culture
    GREER, Timothy S
    Pan-Asian Conference 3 at JALT2001, Nov. 2001, English, 全国語学教育学会, 小倉, 日本, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • Dangerous English
    GREER, Timothy S
    Public lecture series: The English You Didn’t Learn in School, Jun. 2001, English, 北海道大学, 札幌, 日本, Domestic conference
    [Invited]
    Invited oral presentation

■ Affiliated Academic Society
  • Conversation Analysis Network in Asia (CAN Asia)
    2015 - Present

  • The International Society for Conversation Analysis
    Jan. 2018

  • エスノメソドロジー・会話分析研究会

  • International Pragmatics Association

  • 全国語学教育学会(JALT)

■ Research Themes
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