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Elaborations on L2 interactional competence: the development of L2 grammar-for-interaction
Classroom Discourse, 2018This paper argues for a broadening of the analytic scope of research on L2 interactional competence so as to embrace systematic investigation of the linguistic resources that L2 speakers put to use...
Simona Pekarek Doehler
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Teaching L2 interactional competence: problems and possibilities
Classroom Discourse, 2018This contribution outlines the problems and possibilities of three issues with regard to the teaching of L2 interactional competence (IC): (1) specifying IC, (2) standardising IC, and (3) translati...
Hansun Zhang Waring
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The Relationship Between L2 Interactional Competence and Proficiency
Applied Linguistics, 2023Abstract The relationship between L2 linguistic skills and the ability to use language for social purposes is still under-explored. While previous research suggests that higher proficiency coincides with better pragmatic and interactional performance, incongruities are also apparent with some low-proficiency learners being able to ...
Carsten Roever, Naoki Ikeda
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L2 Interactional Competence and L2 Education
2021I have been invited, in this discussion piece, to offer my view on the opportunities and challenges that arise, for L2 education, from empirical studies on L2 acquisition. In this chapter, I therefore lay out what I see as central conditions for L2 education to move toward a more systematic concern with L2 learners' abilities to participate in social ...
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Grammar as validity evidence for assessing L2 interactional competence
Applied Pragmatics, 2023Abstract This study examines how L2 learners of English at different pragmatic performance levels implement requests during role-play assessment interaction. In doing so, the role of grammar-for-interaction as validity evidence of assessing interactional competence is explicated.
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Testing interactional competence: Patterned yet dynamic aspects of L2 interaction
Studies in Language Assessment, 2020Scholarship in language testing is increasingly embracing sociologically defined notions of language. This includes the notion of interactional competence (IC) which encompasses the various sequential, temporal, and embodied resources language learners utilize when interacting in the L2.
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Interactional Competence and L2 Pragmatics
2019Viewing interactional competence (IC) as simply a pragmatic match between cultural expectations and observed forms of talk in a discursive practice may lead us to believe that IC is simply a question of pragmatics, but this would be a mistake. Many researchers have described how IC develops in L2, and still others have developed procedures for ...
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Instructed L2 Interactional Competence in the First Year
2019This chapter illustrates the outcomes of the first two semesters of university language instruction targeting the development of interactional competence (IC) in Chinese as a Foreign Language, with a specific focus on active listenership and topic management. IC is a crucial ability for both first language and second language (L2) speakers. The chapter
Silvia Kunitz, Meng Yeh
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Interactional competence in L2 text-chat interactions: First-idea proffering in task openings
Journal of Pragmatics, 2019Abstract This study explores the opening phase of online task-based text-chat interactions between second language (L2) learners of English at three proficiency levels through a Conversation Analysis (CA) inspired, moment-by-moment analysis, and relates differences between groups to participants' differential levels of interactional competence.
Makoto Abe, Carsten Roever
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