Tim Greer Kobe University Japan

L2 TALK

sociality, interaction, identity

My research focuses on naturally occurring conversation in Japanese and English, including bilingual interaction between fluent speakers and second language talk among language learners.

I teach English in the School of Languages and Communication and Conversation Analysis in the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies at Kobe University.

If you are thinking about writing a Masters or Doctoral degree in English while living in Japan, feel free to contact me. I'm interested in supervising students who want to use Pragmatics or Conversation Analysis to investigate interactional competence and social practices in second language settings.

Supervising:

MA and PhD dissertations that investigate second language interaction

Academia.edu:

Links to some of my papers on academia.edu

Research output:

TEL:

+81 (0)78 803 7683

Email:

tim(a)kobe-u.ac.jp

UPCOMING PRESENTATION

2026. Giving directions in virtual reality: Discovering resources for managing fragmented perception. ICOP-L2. Newcastle University, UK, August 24-26. (with Adam Brandt).

RECENT PUBLICATION

Greer, T., & Nanbu, Z. (2025). Occasioning and re-occasioning learnables in a cooking class. Language, Interaction, and Acquisition, 16(1), 132-167. https://doi.org/10.1075/lia.23043.gre

CURRENT PROJECT

Second Language Practices in Instructional Cooking Environments (SPICE) : This project uses conversation analysis to show how people use cooking instructions in another language. It focuses on how they draw on embodiment, materiality and the interactional ecology to achieve mutual understanding and accomplish instructional goals.