A key pedagogical goal in any classroom is to engage students in learning. This study
examines how an English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) teacher employs available resources to …

This paper deals with an end-of-semester interactional competence (IC) assessment of L2
oral communication skills for higher education students. Despite the growing research …

While several studies support the appropriateness of tasks delivered through Spoken Dialog
Systems (SDSs) for L2 oral communication assessment, few studies have explored the …

Research on the development of second language (L2) interactional competence (IC) has
shown that IC is vital for L2 speakers' participation in the social world of the L2 and thus an …

This study draws on multimodal conversation analysis to emically account for moments in
second language (L2) English interaction in which speakers appear to be visualizing text as …

Many tests of second language (L2) oral proficiency (OP) include speaking tasks designed
to generate narrative talk. From an assessment perspective, frequent turn shifts and a …

Assessment of foreign/second language (L2) oral proficiency is known to be complex and
influenced by the local context. In Sweden, extensive assessment guidelines for the National …

Recent years have seen an increasing amount of research on assessing interactional
competence, including the construct coverage in relation to the theoretical construct (eg …

As the first of the two background chapters, the chapter begins by locating CA in sociology
and ethnomethodology through the work of Garfinkel (1967) and Sacks (1992), and by …

The contributions to this Special Issue employ conversation analysis to illustrate how
detailed analysis of language use can lead to the identification of assessable features of …