Publications

Publication details [#40915]

Kasper, Gabriele. 2004. Participant Orientations in German Conversation-for-Learning. The Modern Language Journal 88 (4) : 551–567.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | foreign language acquisition | L2-acquisition

Language as a subject

German

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/modl

Annotation

This paper investigates some roles for a conversation analytic approach to second and foreign language acquisition by exploring the initial segment of a dyadic conversation-for-learning, conducted between a beginning learner of German as a foreign language and a native German speaker.