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This edited volume brings together 10 cutting-edge empirical studies on the realities of English language learning, teaching and testing in a wide range of global contexts where English is an additional language. It covers three themes: learners’ development of interactional competence, the organization of teaching and testing practices, and sociocultural and ideological forces that may impact classroom interaction. With a decided focus on English-as-a-Foreign-Language contexts, the studies involve varied learner populations, from children to young adults to adults, in different learning environments around the world. The insights gained will be of interest to EFL professionals, as well as teacher trainers, policymakers and researchers.
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.
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.
Chapter 1. Taiane Malabarba and Hanh thi Nguyen: Introduction
Part I: Learners’ Development of Interactional Competence
Chapter 2. Maria Vanessa aus der Wieschen and Søren Eskildsen: Embodied and Occasioned Learnables and Teachables in an Early EFL Classroom
Chapter 3. Hanh thi Nguyen: Developing Interactional Competence in a Lingua Franca at the Workplace: An Ethnomethodologically Endogenous Account
Part II: Teaching and Testing Practices as Dynamic Processes
Chapter 4. Jingya Li: Looking beyond IRF Moves in EFL Classroom Interactions in China
Chapter 5. Dilara Somuncu and Olcay Sert: EFL Trainee Teachers’ Orientations to Students’ Non-understanding: A Focus on Task Instructions
Chapter 6. Eric Hauser: Handling Unprepared-for Contingencies in an Interactional Language Test: Student Initiation of Correction as a Collaborative Accomplishment
Chapter 7. Tim Greer: Closing up Testing: Interactional Orientation to a Timer during a Paired EFL Oral Proficiency Test
Part III: Socio-cultural and Ideological Forces in Language Teaching
Chapter 8. Josephine Lee: The “Power Game”: Interactional Asymmetries in EFL Collaborative Language Teaching
Chapter 9. Mostafa Pourhaji: Collision of Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Iranian EFL Classroom Interaction
Chapter 10. Taiane Malabarba: “In English, sorry”: Participants' Orientation to the English-Only Policy in Beginning-Level EFL Classroom Interaction
Chapter 11. Peter Sayer, Taiane Malabarba and Leslie Moore: Teaching English in Marginalized Contexts: Constructing Relevance in an EFL Classroom in Rural Southern Mexico
Chapter 12. Johannes Wagner: Commentary: Fault Lines in Global EFL
Index