Conversation Analytic Perspectives on English Language Learning, Teaching and Testing in Global Contexts (eBook)

lt;p>Hanh thi Nguyen is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English and Applied Linguistics at Hawai'i Pacific University. Her research interests include the development of interactional competence in a second or professional language, social interaction in language learning situations and learners' transforming identities.

Taiane Malabarba is Assistant Professor in the Language Department at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil. Her research interests include EFL teaching and learning, classroom interaction, language policy and teacher education.

Chapter 1. Taiane Malabarba and Hanh thi Nguyen: Introduction

Part I: Learners’ Development of Interactional Competence

Chapter 2. Maria Vanessa aus der Wieschen and Søren Eskildsen: Embodied and Occasioned Learnables and Teachables in an Early EFL Classroom

Chapter 3. Hanh thi Nguyen: Developing Interactional Competence in a Lingua Franca at the Workplace: An Ethnomethodologically Endogenous Account

Part II: Teaching and Testing Practices as Dynamic Processes

Chapter 4. Jingya Li: Looking beyond IRF Moves in EFL Classroom Interactions in China

Chapter 5. Dilara Somuncu and Olcay Sert: EFL Trainee Teachers’ Orientations to Students’ Non-understanding: A Focus on Task Instructions

Chapter 6. Eric Hauser: Handling Unprepared-for Contingencies in an Interactional Language Test: Student Initiation of Correction as a Collaborative Accomplishment

Chapter 7. Tim Greer: Closing up Testing: Interactional Orientation to a Timer during a Paired EFL Oral Proficiency Test

Part III: Socio-cultural and Ideological Forces in Language Teaching

Chapter 8. Josephine Lee: The “Power Game”: Interactional Asymmetries in EFL Collaborative Language Teaching

Chapter 9. Mostafa Pourhaji: Collision of Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Iranian EFL Classroom Interaction

Chapter 10. Taiane Malabarba: “In English, sorry”: Participants' Orientation to the English-Only Policy in Beginning-Level EFL Classroom Interaction

Chapter 11. Peter Sayer, Taiane Malabarba and Leslie Moore: Teaching English in Marginalized Contexts: Constructing Relevance in an EFL Classroom in Rural Southern Mexico

Chapter 12. Johannes Wagner: Commentary: Fault Lines in Global EFL

Index