Clelia König is a postdoctoral research assistant at the German University of Koblenz-Landau. She works at the Institute of German Language at the Campus in Landau and teaches several B.A. courses for teacher students in the domains of General Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics as well as Conversation Analysis and Second Language Acquisition. She obtained her PhD at the Swiss University of Neuchâtel and has published this volume on the basis of her doctoral thesis. Her new research focus resides in the analysis of German learning process by young children in Kindergarten. With the new data and analyses she is preparing her habilitation treatise for pursuing an academic career.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Data, methodology and research questionsChapter 2: Topic analysis in first and second languagesChapter 3: L2 acquisition and interactional competenceChapter 4: Topic management in French L1 and L2 interactionsChapter 5: Topic introductionChapter 6: Topic closureChapter 7: Nature and development of L2 interactional competenceChapter 8: Conclusion(s)Appendix IIndex

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