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Headl<strong>in</strong>es <strong>in</strong> Bus<strong>in</strong>ess.” S1 was an <strong>in</strong>ternational student from Denmark and S2 was a Taiwanese student. Act<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong><br />
the role of employees, they followed the teacher’s direction to exchange greet<strong>in</strong>gs first and then talk about the<br />
rumors <strong>in</strong> the company by ask<strong>in</strong>g such questions as “Did you hear that…?” and “How are th<strong>in</strong>gs go<strong>in</strong>g with…?”<br />
Afterward, good news and bad news of the company were discussed. In the realistic role-play, the students act<strong>in</strong>g as<br />
employees were engaged <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>tercultural communication as they discussed such th<strong>in</strong>gs as delayed construction and<br />
cheaper raw materials.<br />
Table 9. Descriptive data of the students <strong>in</strong> a discussion group<br />
College Undergraduate Graduate<br />
College of Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g 6 4<br />
College of Management 2 7<br />
College of Humanities and Applied Sciences 1 0<br />
College of Design 0 0<br />
Total 9 11<br />
Table 10. Students’ shared understand<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> build<strong>in</strong>g language awareness<br />
Vocabulary Sentence<br />
date of product launch Is there any time when you were strapped for cash?<br />
flea market (4) What amount of loan do you want to apply for? (3)<br />
strapped How many products do you aim to sell <strong>in</strong> a year?<br />
tuition fee (3) How much personal <strong>in</strong>vestment are you prepared to make?<br />
apply a bank loan When do you expect to launch the product?<br />
ethical How much do you expect production costs to be?<br />
tuition amounted to How much are all the other operat<strong>in</strong>g costs?<br />
euros What will the sell<strong>in</strong>g price be?<br />
<strong>in</strong>herit What sales channel do you expect to use?<br />
Extract 1<br />
S1: Good morn<strong>in</strong>g. (-) How=How was your weekend?<br />
S2: Relax<strong>in</strong>g. (--) I spent the weekend (.) at home. (-) Hey, uh:: (---) did you hear : (.) that the BOSS go back=got<br />
back from CHIna (-) on Saturday?<br />
S1: [He did?] Good. (2.0) How (-) are (-) th<strong>in</strong>gs (--) go<strong>in</strong>g with the new FACtory?<br />
S2: Well, (.) do=you=want the GOOD NEWS (-) or the BAD NEWS first?<br />
S1: Give me (.) the BAD news first.<br />
S2: The bad news is that (-) construction is beh<strong>in</strong>d : schedule. (--) He said that (-) they were hav<strong>in</strong>g PROblems (.)<br />
get=gett<strong>in</strong>g build<strong>in</strong>g (.) permits (-) from the local government (.) officials.<br />
S1: I see. (.) So :: what is the GOOD news?<br />
S2: Well, (-) the good news is that (-) costs were LOWer than expected. (---) He told me that (-) they ma=managed<br />
to (.) get a good deal (-) on raw materials.<br />
Transcription conventions adapted from Knapp’s (2010) transcription notation:<br />
[.] Overlap and simultaneous speak<strong>in</strong>g<br />
= Quick, immediate connection of new turns or s<strong>in</strong>gle units<br />
: Lengthen<strong>in</strong>g (: or:: or::: accord<strong>in</strong>g to its duration)<br />
(.) Micro-pause<br />
(-) Pause of approximately 0.25–1 s ((-) or (- -) or (- - -) accord<strong>in</strong>g to its duration)<br />
(2.0) Estimated length of pause (more than 1 s)<br />
ACcent Primary or ma<strong>in</strong> accent<br />
In the CSCL community, students were also <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> mean<strong>in</strong>g negotiation with the teacher dur<strong>in</strong>g extended<br />
<strong>in</strong>teractions. The teacher-student and the student-student <strong>in</strong>teractions <strong>in</strong> the CSCL community raise students’<br />
language awareness on the levels of lexical, syntactic, and textual organization. With respect to the <strong>in</strong>teraction<br />
between teachers and students, Table 11 shows an example of a teacher’s feedback to a student’s responses. In their<br />
messages, the student first expla<strong>in</strong>ed his difficulty <strong>in</strong> understand<strong>in</strong>g the first question. In answer<strong>in</strong>g the second<br />
question, the student believed that economic health was not the only way to determ<strong>in</strong>e how healthy a country was<br />
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