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This volume addresses questions regarding target language (TL) acquisition in the classroom context, namely: what is negotiated interaction?; what are the main discourse functions of negotiated interaction?; how frequent is negotiated interaction in TL classrooms and does this frequency vary by proficiency level?; and to what extent does the initiation of negotiation overlap with the negotiation of power in such a setting of unequal-power discourse as the TL classroom? The book aims to contribute to the understanding of the process of interlanguage development in TL classrooms and to the process of TL teaching and teacher training. It also seeks to further the understanding of negotiated interaction from a sociolinguistic standpoint: the asymmetrical nature of negotiation work in TL classrooms reflects the role and power relationships, the social organization, as well as the tacit interactional and cultural rules that seem to be at work in the TL classroom context.

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[...] this book provides a useful synthesis of theoretical and empirical work on negociated interaction in SLA, and an interesting scheme of analysis for examining negociated interaction in language classroom discourse. The insightful qualitative interpretations of the quantitative results of the study will also be of use for researchers and analysts in many disciplines. -- Tan Bee Tin, University College Chichester, UK in Multilingua 21, 2002

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