Proceedings of the 9th CAN-Asia Symposium
on L2 Interaction
March 4 to 6, 2026
Hanoi University of Industry, Vietnam
Editor
Eric Hauser
University of Electro-Communications and
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Papers
✰ Front matter and Abstracts: 4-12
Humor and Stance in Multilingual and L2 Interaction
✰Josephine Mijin Lee & Eunseok Ro, L2 Incompetence as a Comedic Device in Reality
TV Shows: 13-24
✰Younhee Kim & Eric Hauser, L2 Resources for Constructing Stance in Bilingual Child
Interaction: 25-29
✰Taiane Malabarba & Hanh thi Nguyen, From Repair to Humor: L2 Users’ Interactional Competence at the Workplace: 30-34
Repair and Understanding in L2 Classrooms and Beyond
✰David Shimamoto, Checking, Displaying, and Reaching for Inscribed Objects:
Orienting to Open-Class Repair Initiations in Task-Based Interaction: 35-41
✰Hugo Wing-Yu Tam, Teachers’ Orientation to Practiced Language Policies through
Repair: Maximising Cantonese Lexical Exposure for Ethnolinguistic Minority
Students in Hong Kong: 42-44
✰Ngoc Thi Bich Nguyen & Ly Thi Phuong Tran, Interpreter-Initiated Repairs: A
Conversation Analysis of Repairs in English-Vietnamese Interpreting Dialogs:
45-49
Interactive Poster Session
✰Eric Hauser, John Campbell-Larsen, Adam Brandt, & Hiroya Haruyama, Fuzzy Endings: Transitioning out of an L2 Roleplay: 50-54
✰Achiraya Umpornpun, Coordinating Action and Space: Teamwork and Spatial
Negotiation in Portal 2 Gameplay: 55-56
✰Julia Renner & René Foidl, “#TranslanguagingModeActive”: L2 Learners’
Multilingual Practices in Voice-Based Interaction with AI: 57-62
✰Hue Nguyen, Turn Allocation Practices in English L2 Training Interaction: 63-65
✰Marián Sloboda, Ordering Vietnamese Food in Czechia: Some Ways and Limits of
Language Adoption: 66-72
Managing Participation in Instructional and Technologically Mediated Contexts
✰John Campbell-Larsen, Taking Charge of Changed Participation: Ratifying an
Incoming Participant’s Status: 73-78
✰Patharaorn Patharakorn, Displaying Institutional Awareness: Sequence Organization of SAR Responses in L2 Job Interview Talk: 79-81
✰Jonathan Hennessy, Locally Managed Turn-Taking Norms in Second Language Video-Mediated Interaction: 82-93
Multimodality and Multi-Participation
✰Yu-Han Lin, Walking Assistance in Multilingual Eldercare Interaction: 94-112
✰Yosuke Ogawa, More Than a Handful: Achieving Multiple Embodiments During a
Turn’s Unfolding: 113-118
✰Hanh Thi Pham, Thuy Thi Thanh Pham, & Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen, Interactional
Competence in L2 Task-Oriented Interactions: How Do Learners of Different
Proficiency Levels Manage Proposal Sequences?: 119-124
Multilingual Interaction
✰Sangki Kim, “Can You Stop Cutting Me Off?”: Word-Search in L2 Learner-ChatGPT
Conversations: 125-129
✰Toshiaki Furukawa, Podcast Storytelling of the Refusal to Speak English: 130-132
✰Ngoc Phung, Repair through Code-Switching in Online Vietnamese EFL Classrooms:
A Conversation Analysis Perspective: 133-138
Word Choice and Embodiment in Multilingual Interaction
✰Devon Renfroe, Na, Dangshin, and Hanguk Saramdeul: A 65-Year-Old Heritage
Speaker’s Identity in Interaction: 139-143
✰Tim Greer, Multilingual Practices in an English Cooking Class in Japan: 144-157
✰Lin Chen, Formulating Poetic Names for Objects: An Interactional Semantic Study of
Tea Ceremony Interaction: 158-168