Volume 56 in the Second Language Acquisition Series.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributors

Preface

1. L2 International Competence and Development / Joan Kelly Hall and Simona Pekarek Doehler

Part 1: The Nature of L2 Interactional Competence

2. Enacting Interactional Competence in Gaming Activities: Coproducing Talk with Virtual Others / Arja Piirainen-Marsh

3. Learning as Social Action / Fritjof Sahlström

4. The Social Life of Self-Directed Talk: A Sequential Phenomenon? / Fee Steinbach Kohler and Steven L. Thorne

5. Second Language Interaction for Business and Learning / Gudrun Theodórsdóttir

6. Responding to Questions and L2 Learner Interactional Competence during Language Proficiency Interviews: A Microanalytic Study with Pedagogical Implications / Rémi A. Van Compernolle

Part 2: Development of L2 Interactional Competence

7. Members' Methods, Members' Competencies: Looking for Evidence of Language Learning in Longitudinal Investigations of Other-Initiated Repair / John Hellermann

8. Achieving Recipient Design Longitudinally: Evidence from a Pharmacy Intern in Patient Consultations / Hanh Thi Nguyen

9. Developing 'Methods' for Interaction: A Cross-Sectional Study of Disagreement Sequences in French L2 / Simona Pekarek Doehler and Evelyne Pochon-Berger

10. Becoming the Teacher: Changing Participant Frameworks in International Teaching Assistant Discourse / Emily F. Rine and Joan Kelly Hall

"Drawing on data from a range of contexts, including classrooms, pharmacy consultations, tutoring sessions, and video-game playing, and a range of languages including English, German, French, Danish and Icelandic, the studies in this volume address challenges suggested by these questions: What kinds of interactional resources do L2 users draw on to participate competently and creatively in their L2 encounters? And how useful is conversation analysis in capturing the specific development of individuals’ interactional competencies in specific practices across time? Rather than treating participants in L2 interactions as deficient speakers, the book begins with the assumption that those who interact using a second language possess interactional competencies. The studies set out to identify what these competencies are and how they change across time. By doing so, they address some of the difficult and yet unresolved issues that arise when it comes to comparing actions or practices across different moments in time." (Book Cover)