Second Language Conversations. Advances in Applied Linguistics.

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 non-native speakers as deficient communicators. Proposing instead to understand second language users conversational participation as interactional achievement, the book makes a powerful case for ethnomethodological re-specification in second language research.