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

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