Current CLIC Visiting Researchers

Atsushi Nakagawa

ca2600anaka [at] gmail.com

Research & Work

An associate professor at Utsunomiya University in Japan,
specializing in research on interactions between elderly parents,
adult children who live afar, and care professionals in the context of
long-distance caregiving. His work explores the application of
Conversation Analysis findings, particularly from medical settings to
welfare settings, with a specific focus on action formation and the
sequential organization of proposals, offers, and informing.

Haruka Kikuchi

u659236d [at] ecs.osaka-u.ac.jp

Research & Work

A Ph.D. student at Graduate School of Humanities at Osaka University. Using conversation analysis, her research investigates preschoolers’ English learning in language classroom contexts, especially how popular playful activities are implemented interactionally to encourage affective second language learning among the children.