Foreign language education primarily aims to cultivate learners' competence to
communicate in an additional language. However, the meaning of communication …

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 …

The study investigates business professionals of different language backgrounds using
English as a business lingua franca (BELF) in formal internal meetings. In particular, it …

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 …

Classrooms provide a context in which teachers and learners co-construct meaning in light
of their sociocultural understandings and profiles. However, to date, few studies have …

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 …

In response to the multilingual turn, the field of TESOL has not yet propelled itself away from
monolingual orientations despite fleeting attention to the concepts of plurilingualism and …

This book explores multilingual practices such as translanguaging, code-switching and
stylization in secondary classrooms in Hawai'i. Using linguistic ethnography, it investigates …

In this study, we examine instances of peer involvement in L2 classroom interaction when
student initiatives receive an observably insufficient teacher response. The data for this …

Research on the pragmatics of English as a lingua franca (henceforth ELF) has been
gaining momentum in recent years as evidenced by the growing number of published works …