L2 Interactional Competence and Development

by Hall, Joan Kelly; Hellermann, John; Doehler, Simona Pekarek

• ISBN13: 9781847694058
• ISBN10: 1847694055
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-18
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Joan Kelly Hall is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University.John Hellermann is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Portland State University.Simona Pekarek Doehler is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1-Joan Kelly Hall and Simona Pekarek Doehler: Introduction: Interactional Competence and Development

Section One: The Nature of L2 Interactional Competence

Chapter 2-Arja Piirainen-Marsh: Enacting Interactional Competence in Gaming Activities: Co-Producing Talk with Virtual Others

Chapter 3-Fritjof Sahlström: 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 Theodórsdóttir:Second language use for business and learning

Chapter 6- Rémi A. van Compernolle: Responding to questions and L2 learner interactional competence during language proficiency interviews: A microanalytic study with pedagogical implications

Section Two: Development of L2 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 L2

Chapter 10- Emily Rine and Joan Kelly Hall: Becoming the Teacher: Changing Participant Frameworks in International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Discourse