抄録
The authors implemented activities which involved reading about the experiences of former international students in Japanese intermediate classes, aiming at supporting international students' career development. This study analyses the roles teachers played in the activities, based on the utterances during the discussions. The teachers mainly used the following utterances: indicating issues, promoting utterances, controlling discussions, explaining contents, introducing social/cultural knowledge and their own/others' experiences, stating opinions/advice, aizuchi, repetition, rephrasing, confirmations, assessments, agreements, and questions. Using these utterances, the teachers played the role of encouraging students' utterances and helping to deepen discussions, in an effort to promote students' career development.
