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

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.

This volume offers an empirically grounded and theoretically informed panorama of the interactional practices involved in EFL education across a rich variety of national and educational contexts. It provides a powerful demonstration of how a conversation analytic perspective allows us to uncover the affordances and challenges of language learning, teaching and testing as social processes.

• Chapter 1. Taiane Malabarba and Hanh thi Nguyen: IntroductionPart I: Learners’ Development of Interactional CompetenceChapter 2. Maria Vanessa aus der Wieschen and Søren Eskildsen: Embodied and Occasioned Learnables and Teachables in an Early EFL ClassroomChapter 3. Hanh thi Nguyen: Developing Interactional Competence in a Lingua Franca at the Workplace: An Ethnomethodologically Endogenous AccountPart II: Teaching and Testing Practices as Dynamic ProcessesChapter 4. Jingya Li: Looking beyond IRF Moves in EFL Classroom Interactions in ChinaChapter 5. Dilara Somuncu and Olcay Sert: EFL Trainee Teachers’ Orientations to Students’ Non-understanding: A Focus on Task InstructionsChapter 6. Eric Hauser: Handling Unprepared-for Contingencies in an Interactional Language Test: Student Initiation of Correction as a Collaborative AccomplishmentChapter 7. Tim Greer: Closing up Testing: Interactional Orientation to a Timer during a Paired EFL Oral Proficiency TestPart III: Socio-cultural and Ideological Forces in Language TeachingChapter 8. Josephine Lee: The “Power Game”: Interactional Asymmetries in EFL Collaborative Language TeachingChapter 9. Mostafa Pourhaji: Collision of Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Iranian EFL Classroom InteractionChapter 10. Taiane Malabarba: “In English, sorry”: Participants' Orientation to the English-Only Policy in Beginning-Level EFL Classroom InteractionChapter 11. Peter Sayer, Taiane Malabarba and Leslie Moore: Teaching English in Marginalized Contexts: Constructing Relevance in an EFL Classroom in Rural Southern MexicoChapter 12. Johannes Wagner: Commentary: Fault Lines in Global EFLIndex