Background The concept of IC as it is used today traces back to Hymes's (1972) view of
communicative competence (CC) as the knowledge of how to use language appropriately in …

This edited volume investigates the nature and possible applications of an expanded and
reconceptualized theoretical construct of speaking as a dynamic socially-constructed …

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 …

This volume presents an innovative approach to understanding the language socialization
process of second language learners in study abroad programs, focusing on the case of …

During teacher-centred classroom interaction, teachers often fail to solicit volunteer turn-
takers. Even if students display their unwillingness to take a turn at the moment, teachers …

This chapter draws on multi-modal Conversation Analysis to examine instances of mundane
L2 interaction in which participants orient to learning new lexical items. Such sequences are …

This article updates the trends and developments of Japanese as a second language (JSL)
research since Mori and Mori (2011) by reviewing nearly 200 selected empirical studies …

This chapter presents the findings from a conversation analysis conducted on beginning
German learners' speaking test data and discusses the development of a rubric, which is …

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 …

This study draws on multimodal conversation analysis to emically account for moments in
second language (L2) English interaction in which speakers appear to be visualizing text as …