Studying Speaking to Inform 2nd Lang Lea

This book on spoken interaction in second and foreign languages provides insights as to how findings from each of these studies may inform language pedagogy. The volume offers an interweaving of discourse perspectives: speech acts, speech events, interactional analysis, pragmatics, and conversational analysis.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Boxer, Dr Diana Boxer
• Assisted by: Boxer (Editor), Diana Boxer (Editor), Andrew D Cohen (Editor), Andrew D. Cohen (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2004
• EAN: 9781853597213
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-721-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 213 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Second Language Acquisition; Second Language Acquisitions
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics