Keith Richards was formerly Director of the Language Studies Unit at Aston University and is now Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Language Education at Warwick University, UK. He specializes in the analysis of professional interaction and qualitative research methods. He is author of Qualitative Inquiry in TESOL, also published by Palgrave Macmillan. Paul Seedhouse is Postgraduate Research Co-ordinator and Director of the Integrated PhD in Educational and Applied Linguistics programme at the School of Education at the University of Newcastle, UK. He specializes in conversation analysis, applied linguistics and research methods. He is the author of The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom: A Conversational Analysis Perspective, published by Blackwell.

• Notes on Editors and Contributors List of Illustrations and Tables Transcription Conventions Foreword: Applied Linguistics and Conversation Analysis; P.Drew Introduction; K.Richards PART 1: SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY Autistic Children's Co-ordination of Gaze and Talk: Re-examining the 'Asocial' Autist; P.Dickerson, J.Rae, P.Stribling, K.Dautenhahn & I.Werry Co-Constructing Meaning in Acquired Speech Disorders: Word and Letter Repetition in the Construction of Turns; S.Bloch A Comparison of a Mother and a Therapist Working on Child Speech; H.Gardner PART 2: PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE Talking an Institution Into Being: The Opening Sequence in General Practice Consultations; J.Gafaranga & N.Britten Would You Like To Do It Yourself? Service Requests and Their Non-Granting Responses; E.Vinkhuyzen & M.Szymanski Social Identity and Language Choice in Bilingual Service Talk; M.C.Torras University Students Resisting Academic Identity; B.Benwell & E.Stokoe PART 3: NATIVE SPEAKER AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKER INTERACTION Different Orientations to Grammatical Correctness; S.Kurhila Sidestepping Grammar; J.Wong Discrimination Due to Nonnative Speech Production? M.Egbert PART 4: LANGUAGE LEARNING The Organization of Off-task Talk in Second Language Classrooms; N.Markee Vowel-marking as an Interactional Resource in Japanese Novice ESL Conversation; D.Carroll Teaching Patterns of Interaction in English for Specific Purposes; A.Packett Conversation Analysis as Research Methodology; P.Seedhouse Bibliography Index