Johannes Wagner

Rod Gardner

"This collection is the first to consistently adopt Conversation Analysis as an approach to second language interaction. By examining first and second language speakers' participation in a wide range of activities, it challenges the dominant view of 'nonnative speakers' as deficient communicators. Proposing instead to understand second language users' conversational participation as interactional achievement, the book makes a powerful case for 'ethnomethodological respecification' in second language research." Professor Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai'i Conversations involving speakers whose first language is not the language in which they are talking have become widespread in the globalized world. Migration, increased travel for business or pleasure, as well as communication through new technologies such as the internet make Second Language Conversations an increasingly common everyday event. In this book Conversation Analysis is used to explore natural, casual talk between speakers in a second language. The contributors shift emphasis away from controlled contexts such as the classroom towards more sociable environments in which people go about their daily routines. English, German, French, Japanese, Finnish and Danish are all analyzed as second languages within a variety of professional, educational and sociable situations. This collection of essays aims to present naturally occurring Second Language Conversations in order to show what speakers in these situations do; how they utilize first language conversational practices, and whether or not grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation help or hinder the construction of meaning. >

Second Language Conversations

Gabriele Pallotti

This volume collects empirical studies applying Conversation Analysis to situations where second, third, and other additional languages are used. A number of different aspects are considered, including how linguistic systems develop over time through social interaction and how the linguistic-interactional divide can be bridged with studies combining Conversation Analysis and Functional Linguistics.

Conversation-analytic Perspectives

L2 Learning as Social Practice

Franz-Josef Wagner

"Sind die zu Fuss oder mit dem Bus aus Alemanha gekommen?", fragt einer der Jungen, als wir, Vater und Sohn aus dem Chiemgau, im Nordosten Brasiliens auftauchen, um uns für acht Wochen im Kinderprojekt "Madre Rosa" der Waldbreitbacher Franziskanerinnen nützlich zu machen. Miteinander arbeiten, voneinander lernen, gemeinsam feiern - ein idealer Weg, um die Herzlichkeit der Brasilianer kennen zu lernen, neue Freundschaften aufzubauen und in eine andere Kultur einzutauchen. Davon erzählt dieses Buch ...

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