L2 Interactional Competence and Development

Joan Kelly Hall is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University.

This unique volume draws on the theoretical framework and methodological tools of conversation analysis to examine interactional competence and its development as it occurs in a range of interactional practices, from a variety of contexts, and in a variety of second languages.

Preface Chapter 1-Joan Kelly Hall and Simona Pekarek Doehler: Introduction: Interactional Competence and DevelopmentSection One: The Nature of l 2 Interactional Competence Chapter 2-Arja Piirainen-Marsh: Enacting Interactional Competence in Gaming Activities: Co-Producing Talk with Virtual Others Chapter 3-Fritjof Sahlstrom: Learning as social action Chapter 4-Fee Steinbach Kohler and Steven L. Thorne: The social life of self-directed talk: A sequential phenomenon?Chapter 5-Gudrun Theodorsdottir:Second language use for business and learning Chapter 6- Remi A. van Compernolle: Responding to questions and l 2 learner interactional competence during language proficiency interviews: A microanalytic study with pedagogical implicationsSection Two: Development of l 2 Interactional Competence Chapter 7- John Hellermann: Members' methods, members' competencies: Looking for evidence of language learning in longitudinal investigations of other-initiated repair Chapter 8-Hanh thi Nguyen: Achieving Recipient Design Longitudinally: Evidence from a Pharmacy Intern in Patient Consultations Chapter 9- Simona Pekarek Doehler and Evelyne Pochon-Berger: Developing 'methods' for interaction: A cross-sectional study of disagreement sequences in French l 2 Chapter 10- Emily Rine and Joan Kelly Hall: Becoming the Teacher: Changing Participant Frameworks in International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Discourse