This review aims to identify major issues in and the direction of recent L2 Japanese research
by reviewing over 200 empirical studies published in English or Japanese between 2000 …

This short, introductory paper presents an up-to-date account of works within the field of
Applied Linguistics which have been influenced by a Conversation Analytic paradigm. The …

This article explores recent changes in the landscape of second language acquisition (SLA)
and foreign language pedagogical (FLP) research. Firth and Wagner's (1997) proposal for …

This study explores the communicative needs of summer study abroad students in Japan.
Despite the growing popularity of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), identifying target …

This chapter describes the relationship between second language acquisition (SLA)
research and the field of applied linguistics across “applied” and “applicable” orientations. It …

Discourse studies is a vast, multidisciplinary, and rapidly expanding area of research,
embracing a range of approaches including discourse analysis, corpus analysis …

This chapter explores the sequential organization of end-of-semester language proficiency
interviews (LPIs) 2 between a teacher and intermediatelevel US university learners of …

Using the framework of conversation analysis, this study investigated the interactional
workings of laughter in task‐based interactions. The analysis was drawn from 160 cases of …

In order to conceptualize materials used in pair‐work activities from a sociomaterialist
perspective, this study examined the moment‐by‐moment unfolding of 67 pair‐work …

This study examines Japanese complaint responses appearing in naturally occurring
interaction and textbook dialogues. The comparative analysis highlights that complaint …