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This volume offers insights on language learning outside the classroom, or in the wild, where L2 users themselves are the driving force for language learning. The chapters, by scholars from around the world, critically examine the concept of second language learning in the wild. The authors use innovative data collection methods (such as video and audio recordings collected by the participants during their interactions outside classrooms) and analytic methods from conversation analysis to provide a radically emic perspective on the data. Analytic claims are supported by evidence from how the participants in the interactions interpret one another’s language use and interactional conduct. This allows the authors to scrutinize the term wild showing what distinguishes L2 practices in our different datasets and how those practices differ from the L2 learner data documented in other more controlled settings, such as the classroom. We also show how our findings can feed back into the development of materials for classroom language instruction, and ultimately can support the implementation of usage-based L2 pedagogies. In sum, we uncover what it is about the language use in these contexts that facilitates developmental changes over time in L2-speakers' and their co-participants' interactional practices for language learning.

Language and languages --- Study and teaching. --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Language and education. --- Applied linguistics. --- Learning. --- Instruction. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Language Education. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Learning & Instruction. --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Learning process --- Comprehension --- Education --- Educational linguistics --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects

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Drawing on data from a range of contexts, including classrooms, pharmacy consultations, tutoring sessions, and video-game playing, and a range of languages including English, German, French, Danish and Icelandic, the studies in this volume address challenges suggested by these questions: What kinds of interactional resources do L2 users draw on to participate competently and creatively in their L2 encounters? And how useful is conversation analysis in capturing the specific development of individuals’ interactional competencies in specific practices across time? Rather than treating participants in L2 interactions as deficient speakers, the book begins with the assumption that those who interact using a second language possess interactional competencies. The studies set out to identify what these competencies are and how they change across time. By doing so, they address some of the difficult and yet unresolved issues that arise when it comes to comparing actions or practices across different moments in time.

Second language acquisition. --- Conversation analysis. --- Communicative competence. --- Competence, Communicative --- Analysis of conversation --- CA (Interpersonal communication) --- Conversational analysis --- Second language learning --- Communication --- Competence and performance (Linguistics) --- Psycholinguistics --- Oral communication --- Language acquisition --- Fremdsprachenlernen. --- Kommunikative Kompetenz. --- Konversationsanalyse. --- L2 competence. --- L2 development. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- conversation analysis. --- interactional competence. --- interactional competencies. --- interactional development.