Pekarek2013

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Pekarek2013
BibType ARTICLE
Key Pekarek2013
Author(s) Simona Pekarek Doehler
Title Social-interactional approaches to SLA: A state of the art and some future perspectives.
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Tag(s) EMCA, Interactional Linguistics, second language acquisition, social interaction, conversation analysis, social cognition, usage-based linguistics
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Year 2013
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Journal Language, Interaction and Acquisition
Volume 4
Number 2
Pages 134–160
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DOI 10.1075/lia.4.2.02pek
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In this paper I address the current state of the art in social-interactional research on SLA. I first provide a brief outline of the historical development of those lines of research that are commonly subsumed under the (broad) heading of ‘social-interactional approaches’, and I discuss their conceptual underpinnings as well as some of their research results. I then focus specifically on current research in what has become a major driving force in socially oriented research on SLA, namely conversation analysis (CA-SLA). I discuss some of the empirical evidence CA-SLA has offered for L2 learning as a socio-cognitive process bound up with the moment-to-moment unfolding of L2 speakers’ social practices. I also review its contribution to our understanding of L2 interactional competence and its development over time. I conclude by sketching avenues for future research.

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