Abstract
This study explores how Japanese language teaching interns engaged with learners and reflected on their experiences during internships. A total of 88 journals (1,263 sentences) were analyzed and categorized as reporting, engaging, or reflecting; 322 sentences (25.5%) were engaging. Further analysis revealed that interns frequently encountered challenges such as responding to learners’ inappropriate or unnatural Japanese, answering their questions, and explaining word meanings to them. These difficulties often served as opportunities for the interns to reexamine their own language use and linguistic intuition.
https://ror.org/027tyzk91 
