This chapter discusses the state of the art in empirical research on second language (L2)
interactional competence (IC) and its development. It analyses the move from a research …

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 volume has grown from innumerous instructional and scholarly activities over the past
several years, ranging from casual conversations in the hallways outside our classrooms to …

The social turn (Block 2003) has over the last twenty years spread through Second
Language Acquisition research (SLA) and generated a number of approaches that have …

This article presents empirical evidence that the Interaction Hypothesis (Long, 1996),
especially key concepts in Negotiation for Meaning, bears little relevance for language …

Using multimodal conversation analysis, this article analyses language learning as an in situ
process during a teacher-assigned, experientially based pedagogical activity. The activity …

This chapter illustrates the outcomes of the first two semesters of university language
instruction targeting the development of interactional competence (IC) in Chinese as a …

This chapter argues that a new epistemology for the field of SLA, rooted in sociology rather
than in psychology, is taking form with radical consequences for the organization of second …

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The objective of this chapter is two-fold:(1) using interactional data from L2 Danish “in the
wild”, ie, in non-classroom, non-pedagogically designed settings, I continue previous work …