Abstract
The purpose of this research is to investigate the interactions among international college students in an intercultural collaborative work project. The fieldwork and repeated interviews with each participant were conducted throughout the project by the first author. Data was analyzed from two perspectives. The first perspective focuses on the relative positions of the participants in regard to the differences of power or "capital" (Bourdieu, 1991) among them. The second perspective focuses on factors that bring the participants closer including shared purposes, tasks and time together. As a result, it was revealed that they utilized various linguistic resources to understand each other while differences in capital relatively position them.
