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This edited volume brings together 10 cutting-edge empirical
studies on the realities of English language learning, teaching and
testing in a wide range of global contexts where English is an
additional language. It covers three themes: learners' development
of interactional competence, the organization of teaching and
testing practices, and sociocultural and ideological forces that
may impact classroom interaction. With a decided focus on
English-as-a-Foreign-Language contexts, the studies involve varied
learner populations, from children to young adults to adults, in
different learning environments around the world. The insights
gained will be of interest to EFL professionals, as well as teacher
trainers, policymakers and researchers.
The volume offers a wealth of new information about the forms of
several speech acts and their social distribution in Vietnamese as
L1 and L2, complemented by a chapter on address forms and listener
responses. As the first of its kind, the book makes a valuable
contribution to the research literature on pragmatics,
sociolinguistics, and language and social interaction in an
under-researched and less commonly taught Asian language.
Pragmatics & Language Learning Volume 12examines the
organization of second language and multilingual speakers' talk and
pragmatic knowledge across a range of naturalistic and experimental
activities. Based on data collected on Danish, English, Hawai'i
Creole, Indonesian, and Japanese as target languages, the
contributions explore the nexus of pragmatic knowledge,
interaction, and L2 learning outside and inside of educational
settings.
Talk-in-interaction: Multilingual perspectives (edited by Gabriele
Kasper & Hanh Thi Nguyen) offers original studies of
interaction in a range of languages and language varieties,
including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swahili,
Thai, and Vietnamese; monolingual and bilingual interactions, and
activities designed for second or foreign language learning.
Conducted from the perspectives of conversation analysis and
membership categorization analysis, the chapters examine ordinary
conversation and institutional activities in face-to-face,
telephone, and computer-mediated environments. PRAGMATICS &
INTERACTION, a refereed series sponsored by the University of
Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center, publishes
research on topics in pragmatics and discourse as social
interaction from a wide variety of theoretical and methodological
perspectives. P&I welcomes particularly studies on languages
spoken in the Asian-Pacific region.
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