Routledge Advances in Second Language Studies
About the Book Series
As the field of second language acquisition (SLA) embraces a greater theoretical and methodological inclusiveness, this series invites research that draws on theories of linguistics, learning, and language use that are relatively new to the field (including but not limited to Vygotskian sociocultural theory, situated learning, language socialization, usage-based linguistics or construction grammars, and ethnomethodological conversation analysis). Books in the series will also mine new types of data enabled by technological advances in order to build theory. Routledge Advances in Second Language Studies focuses on issues that will be of interest in several academic disciplinary areas including linguistics, languages, and education.
Video-Mediated L2 Interaction: Conversation Analytic Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Ufuk Balaman, Tuire Oittinen
April 24, 2026
This collection explores the interface of multimodal conversation analysis (CA) and video-mediated L2 interaction and its potential to advance methodologies for analyzing the context-specific complexities of video-mediated interaction using a rich body of natural data. Chapters feature both a range...
Developing Interactional Competence at the Workplace: Learning English as a Foreign Language on the Shop Floor
1st Edition
By Hanh thi Nguyen, Taiane Malabarba
January 29, 2026
What is it about social interaction at the workplace that spurs interactional competence development? This book explores the answers to this question by analyzing the development of interactional competence by two Vietnamese hotel staff members, one novice and one experienced, as they interact with...
The Development of L2 Interactional Competence: A Multimodal Study of Complaining in French Interactions
1st Edition
By Klara Skogmyr Marian
August 26, 2024
This book presents unique insights into the development of L2 interactional competence through the lens of complaining, demonstrating how a closer study of complaining as a social activity can enhance our understanding of certain aspects of language learning with implications for future L2 research...
Interaction, Language Use, and Second Language Teaching
1st Edition
By Thorsten Huth
April 29, 2022
This book presents a view of human language as social interaction, illustrating its implications for language learning and second language teaching. // The volume advocates for researchers, practitioners, and administrators to rethink and reconceptualize an understanding of language beyond that of...
A Conversation Analysis Approach to French L2 Learning: Introducing and Closing Topics in Everyday Interactions
1st Edition
By Clelia König
August 02, 2021
This book offers a critical examination of second language (L2) learning outside institutional contexts, with a focus on the way second language learners introduce, close, and manage conversational topics in everyday settings. König adopts a Conversation Analysis for Second Language Acquisition (...
Teaching and Testing L2 Interactional Competence: Bridging Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Rafael Salaberry, Silvia Kunitz
December 18, 2020
This volume features the latest research findings on L2 interactional competence to demonstrate the potential for developing and implementing research-based pedagogy that targets interactional competence (IC) in early instruction in a variety of L2 learning and teaching contexts. Incorporating ...
Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil
1st Edition
By Uju Anya
January 08, 2018
Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning. More broadly, this book introduces the idea of second language learning as "...