Bridging Research and Practice
Professional Development Resources for L2 Teaching and Learning
Students are guided to recognize common practices used to indicate that a conversation is winding down and that it is time to conclude it. Specifically, we look at pauses, interjections like bueno or pues (“well”), and phrases such as tengo
Eric Hauser (University of Electro-communications, Japan, and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA) focuses on one instance of Japanese interaction in which one of the participants, an L2 user of Japanese, is constructed by other participants (L1 Japanese users) as
Numa Markee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) uses transcripts of classroom interaction and various classroom materials as the empirical point of departure for a practical discussion of “doing interactional competence” and addresses a number of theoretical points in the applied
Part 1. Simona Pekarek Doehler (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland): 1) introduces the concept of interactional competence (IC); 2) discusses why we study and research IC; 3) presents the relevant concerns for exploring IC in second languages; 4) addresses challenges for research-based