Preliminaries are prefatory turns and sequences that are used to alert co-participants to the
incipient social actions in talk-in-interaction. Using multimodal conversation analysis, this …

This paper deals with an end-of-semester interactional competence (IC) assessment of L2
oral communication skills for higher education students. Despite the growing research …

This study investigated L2 English speakers' ability to adjust their pragmalinguistic strategies
in response to different reactions coming from their imagined interlocutor. Participants were …

Under global public health emergencies such as COVID-19 and monkeypox, online learning
for the second language (L2) has become prevalent, especially mobile learning, which …

The contributions to this Special Issue employ conversation analysis to illustrate how
detailed analysis of language use can lead to the identification of assessable features of …

While Interactional Competence (IC) has been a facet of models of competence for as long
as communicative competence has existed (Hymes, 1974), a psycholinguistic approach …

This paper aims to uncover an interactional practice oriented by L2 test-takers in a setting of
interactional competence assessment. The interactants in this specific context were …

Research has proven the impact testwiseness and test preparation can have on speaking
test discourse (Lam, 2015; Luk, 2010; Hüttner, 2014). The question is perhaps not whether …

This study investigates the development of second language (L2) learners' interactional
competence (IC) in conversations with L1 speakers of Spanish. IC, which has been studied …

The contributions to this Special Issue employ conversation analysis to illustrate how
detailed analysis of language use can lead to the identification of assessable features of …