Books in the Second Language Acquisition Research Series series

Researchers and educators routinely call for longitudinal research on language learning and teaching. This volume explores the connection between longitudinal study and advanced language capacities. It also explores what it would take to design systematic research programs for the longitudinal investigation of advanced L2 capacities.

Besides a review of the relevant second language literature, this book presents a concise overview of the psychological research involving each topic. It focuses on a different individual difference variable. It is useful for students in linguistics, applied linguistics, modern languages, psychology programs, and others.

Bringing conversational analysis into the study of second language pragmatics as an analytic paradigm, this volume addresses a difficult area for the interlanguage pragmatics research community - the balance between experimental method and the use of conversational data. Institutional talk provides authentic and consequential talk.