Abstract
Many international students have difficulty conversing with native speakers in first meetings, so educational materials teaching conversation for mid-high level university international students, focusing on early stage relationship building, have been developed. Materials are based on conversations between newly matriculated native Japanese speaking freshmen, analyzed using conversation analysis. This paper focuses on a selection, "anxieties and frustrations". Whereas past textbooks focused on advice and consoling words for the reduction of anxiety and frustration, analysis found that the sharing of anxieties and frustrations also resulted in the building of empathy. Useful conversation strategies are presented here as a topic for instruction.
