Research on translanguaging practices in multilingual contexts has explored how
translanguaging highlights the multilingual and multicultural nature of social interactions and …

Interactional Competence (IC) involves speakers' ability to make social actions recognizable
to one another while taking into account individual identities and social role relationships …

The overarching aim of the study is to explore the extent to which test takers' performances
on monologic speaking tasks provide information about their interactional competence. This …

This book presents unique insights into the development of L2 interactional competence
through the lens of complaining, demonstrating how a closer study of complaining as a …

Preliminaries are prefatory turns and sequences that are used to alert co-participants to the
incipient social actions in talk-in-interaction. Using multimodal conversation analysis, this …

Interactional competence (IC) is a crucial component of teaching and assessing speaking in
second/foreign languages in general. However, SLA research based on Conversation …

As access to smartphones and emerging technologies has become ubiquitous in our daily
lives and in language learning, technology-mediated social interaction has become …

Research on the development of second language (L2) interactional competence (IC) has
shown that IC is vital for L2 speakers' participation in the social world of the L2 and thus an …

Many tests of second language (L2) oral proficiency (OP) include speaking tasks designed
to generate narrative talk. From an assessment perspective, frequent turn shifts and a …

Assessment of foreign/second language (L2) oral proficiency is known to be complex and
influenced by the local context. In Sweden, extensive assessment guidelines for the National …