Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning

Diana Boxer is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the University of Florida and author of several books. Andrew D. Cohen is Professor in English as a Second Language Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and author of several books.

• Bio-statementsPart I: Theoretical Issues1 Diana Boxer: Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning: A Conceptual Overview2 Dan Douglas: Discourse Domains: The Cognitive Context of SpeakingPart II: Studying Spontaneous Spoken Discourse to Inform Second Language Learning3 Anne Lazaraton: Conversation Analysis and the Nonnative English Speaking ESL Teacher: A Case Study4 Joan Kelly Hall: “Practicing Speaking” in Spanish: Lessons from a High School Foreign Language Classroom5 Heidi Hamilton: Repair of Teenagers’ Spoken German in a Summer Immersion Program6 Helena Halmari: Codeswitching Patterns and Developing Discourse Competence in L2Part III: Studying Elicited Spoken Discourse to Inform Second Language Learning7 Carrie Taylor-Hamilton: Giving Directions as a Speech Behavior: A Cross-cultural Comparison of L1 and L2 Strategies8 Koji Konishi and Elaine Tarone: English Constructions Used in Compensatory Strategies: Baseline Data for Communicative EFL Instruction9 Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and Tom Salsbury: The Organization of Turns in the Disagreements of L2 Learners: A Longitudinal Perspective10 Leslie M. Beebe and Hansun Zhang Waring: The Linguistic Encoding of Pragmatic Tone: Adverbials as Words that WorkPart IV: Studying Spoken Discourse to Inform Second Language Assessment11 Annie Brown: Discourse Analysis and the Oral Interview: Competence or Performance?12 Carsten Roever: Difficulty and Practicality in Tests of Interlanguage Pragmatics13 Andrew D. Cohen: Assessing Speech Acts in a Second LanguageIndex