The present study examines the kinds of emotional scaffolding that occurred in online text chats in Japanese between 19 learners of Japanese at an Australian university and 19 native‐speaking students at a Japanese university, together with the emotions that the learners experienced in relation to the scaffolding. The learners chatted in Japanese and also in English, each for 30 min per week for 7 weeks. The data that were collected consisted of questionnaires, chat transcripts, learners' weekly reports, and interviews held with the learners after the conclusion of the project. Emotional scaffolding found in the data included expressing positive attitudes toward the chats, complimenting an interlocutor about their FL proficiency, and expressing emotions using emoticons. These types of scaffolding triggered positive emotions in the learners and developed emotional intersubjectivity between the interlocutors, while a lack of emotional scaffolding in the communications led the learners to experience negative emotions.

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日语学习者与日语为母语的人之间的文字聊天中的情感支架

本研究调查了澳大利亚大学的19名日语学习者和日本大学的19名以英语为母语的学生之间的日语在线文本聊天中发生的情感支架的种类，以及学习者与支架相关的情感。学习者用日语和英语聊天，每周聊天30分钟，共7周。项目结束后，收集的数据包括问卷，聊天记录，学习者的每周报告以及对学习者的访谈。数据中发现的情感支架包括对聊天表达积极态度，称赞对话者的FL熟练程度以及使用表情符号表达情感。