1st Edition

A Conversation Analysis Approach to French L2 Learning Introducing and Closing Topics in Everyday Interactions

By Clelia König Copyright 2020
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a critical examination of second language (L2) learning outside institutional contexts, with a focus on the way second language learners introduce, close, and manage conversational topics in everyday settings. König adopts a Conversation Analysis for Second Language Acquisition (CA-SLA) approach in analyzing oral data from a longitudinal study of L2 learners of French, au pairs in... Read more

Introduction





Chapter 1: Data, methodology and research questions





Chapter 2: Topic analysis in first and second languages





Chapter 3: L2 acquisition and interactional competence





Chapter 4: Topic management in French L1 and L2 interactions





Chapter 5: Topic introduction





Chapter 6: Topic closure





Chapter 7: Nature and development of L2 interactional competence





Chapter 8: Conclusion(s)





Appendix I





Index

Biography

Clelia König is a postdoctoral research assistant at the German University of Koblenz-Landau. She works at the Institute of German Language at the Campus in Landau and teaches several B.A. courses for teacher students in the domains of General Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics as well as Conversation Analysis and Second Language Acquisition. She obtained her PhD at the Swiss University of Neuchâtel and has published this volume on the basis of her doctoral thesis. Her new research focus resides in the analysis of German learning process by young children in Kindergarten. With the new data and analyses she is preparing her habilitation treatise for pursuing an academic career.