Speaking in a second language / edited by Rosa Alonso Alonso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Speaking in a Second Language; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of speaking; Introduction and overview; Linguistic variation and speaking in learner grammars; L2 speaking and the acquisition of sociolinguistically-variable sounds; L2 speaking and the acquisition of sociolinguistically variable morphosyntactic structures; Current issues in sociolinguistic competence and speaking; L2 speaking and the role of lexical frequency; L2 speaking and the role of geographic variation.

L2 speaking and the role of language attitudesPedagogical implications; Conclusions; References; Chapter 2 Speaking, interactional competencies, and mediated action; Introduction; Conceptual background; Acquiring "speaking": Abstractness vs. situatedness; Dimensions of IC; IC and mediated action; Developing IC through concept-based pragmatics instruction; Background; Orientation, execution, control; Exemplar 1. van Compernolle (2014a); Exemplar 2. van Compernolle & Henery (2014); Exemplar 3. van Compernolle, Gomez-Laich, & Weber (2016); IC as the source and driver of development; Conclusion.

Beat gesturesEmblems; Head movements; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 L2 talk as social accomplishment; Introduction; Background; Interaction and SLA research; Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis 3. This section is revised and updated from Markee (2011).; Socially distributed cognition; Empirical data; Showcasing embedded, embodied, and extended cognition; Collaborative word searches 4. The introduction to word searches and the analysis of Extract 4 are based on Eskildsen (2018).; Collaborative completion; Embedded, embodied, and extended cognition in learning over time.

Discussion and conclusionReferences; Glossary; Transcription conventions; Chapter 5 The acquisition of L2 speaking A dynamic perspective; Introduction; A complex dynamic systems theory account of L2 speaking; Complex dynamic subsystems; Variability; A twin study in speaking development 1. The data we use as example in this section was discussed previously in Chan, Verspoor, and Vahtrick (2015) and Lowie et al. (2017); Participants; Materials; Measures; Data analysis; Results; MLT/spoken; VocD/spoken; Discussion and conclusion; References; Appendix; Gloria 1 (257 words); Gloria 101 (309 words).

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For millions of individuals all over the world, speaking in a second language is a daily activity. It is therefore important that research in applied linguistics should contribute empirically to the study of second language spoken interaction. The aim of this volume is to make such a contribution by providing research-based insights into current approaches to the teaching and learning of this skill. Two key dimensions define the papers included here-their novelty and scope. First, the book provides a novel approach to the study of speaking in a second language by combining recent findings in usage-based linguistics with current issues in teaching. Second, the chapters cover a range of theoretical perspectives, including sociolinguistic and interactional competence, gestures, dynamic systems theory and code-switching. The volume offers a contemporary analysis of research in second language speaking that will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, teachers and other professionals working in the fields of communication and applied linguistics.

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