Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that
educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive …

This study examines how multilingual interlocutors jointly work on trouble-in-talk—searching
for words and formulating what to say—and advance this interactional work by incorporating …

In classroom settings, laughter and smiles are resources for action that are available to both
teachers and students. Recent interactional studies have documented how students use …

This study qualitatively examines possible communicative functions of laughter in English-as-
a-lingua-franca (ELF) interactional contexts. It particularly focuses on the sequences when …

This study qualitatively investigates miscommunication moments during which a teacher of
English who speaks a first language other than English and students with various …

Previous empirical studies have demonstrated that speakers of English as a lingua franca
(ELF) display flexible use of various pragmatic strategies (PSs) to support effective …

Most research produced until very recently in the area of English as a lingua franca (ELF)
has resulted in descriptive and analytic approaches to the matter, evidencing the plurality of …

The purpose of this paper is two-fold:(1) to problematise the overly affiliative interpretations
of English as lingua franca (ELF) interactions across all contexts and combinations of …

This article uses interactional sociolinguistic methodology to examine humor as both content
and process in the classroom. It contributes to our increasing understanding not only of the …

This study investigates the communicative strategies of so-called non-native speakers or
English as a lingua franca (ELF) speakers in the context of ESL writing classrooms at an US …