Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Online Intercultural Talk-in-Interaction -- Which Online Chat? -- Why and How CA? -- Insights from Previous Literature on Online Foreign Language Chat -- The Corpus Used in the Study -- Conclusion: Summary of Research Aims and Objectives -- 2. Towards a Definition of Online Intercultural Chat: Insights from SLA -- Introduction -- Motives of Native Speakers and Learners in Chat: A Pedagogical or Social Context? -- Chat Jargon and Regional Varieties of Italian in the Presence of Foreign Language Learners -- Previous Comparisons of Online Text and Audio/Video Conversations -- Visual Saliency and Noticing -- From Apperception to Output: Application of Interactionist SLA Models to Online Chat -- Teacher and Foreigner Talk in the Chat Room -- Triggers of Conversational Repair: What Do Native Speaker and Learner Participants Repair in Chat? -- Conclusion -- 3. Turn-Taking, Adjacency Pairs and Sequencing -- Introduction -- How Turn-Taking Works in Online One-to-One Text Chat -- Split Adjacency Pairs -- Lack of Contiguity Between Repairable and Correction -- Split Turn Constructional Units (TCUs) -- Conclusion -- 4. Conversational Repair in Online Intercultural Chat: Initiation and Resolution by Self or Other -- Introduction: Pursuing Understanding and SLA in the Foreign Language Chat Room -- Who Initiates and Resolves Repair Sequences in Intercultural Online Chat? -- Conclusion -- 5. Other-Repair in Online Intercultural Chat: When Native Speakers Do Correction -- Introduction -- Other-Initiated Other-Repair: Exposed and Embedded Correction -- How Correction is Organized -- The Interactional Relevance of Repetition after Exposed Correction in Online Intercultural Chat.

The Significance of Vocabulary: Native Speaker Ensuring Understanding of Social Status Through Extended Other-Repair -- Conclusion -- 6. Mitigation and Play in Repair Sequences: Native Speakers and Learners Constructing Intersubjectivity -- Introduction -- Preference Organization in Repair Sequences: Dealing with Dispreferredness of Repair -- Strategies to Set Up an Expert Novice Relationship -- Native Speakers Playing Tutor -- Mitigation through Accountings -- Learners' Face Work around Other-Initiated Self-Repair (Clarification Requests) -- Mitigation through Correction-Apology and Correction-Appreciation Routines -- Native Speakers Explaining Grammar -- Native Speakers Orienting to Meaning and Disattending to Linguistic Expert Role -- The Role of Emoticons -- Conclusion -- 7. Insights from Unsuccessful Repair Sequences -- Introduction -- When Mutual Understanding Fails -- Conclusion -- 8. Implications for SLA Research and Language Teaching -- Introduction -- Productive Repair Trajectories in Online Intercultural Chat -- Visual Saliency and Multimodality as Conversational Scaffold -- Intercultural Pragmatics in Online Chat -- Conclusion -- 9. Integrating Online Chat in Foreign Language Programs: Suggestions and Resources -- Introduction -- Setting Up Partnerships -- Online Conversation Topics -- Choosing Appropriate Chat Software -- Integration of Online Chat through Assessment -- In or Out of Class? -- Social Diversity of Native Speaker Interlocutors -- Encouraging Noticing through Learner Reports -- Appendix 1 Full Extended Chat Session of One Native-Speaker-Learner Dyad Including Papaveri Sequence -- Appendix 2 Complete Brief Multiple Chat Sessions of One Learner, Including Sono Andata Sopra Sequence -- Appendix 3 Instructions on How to Access Facebook Chat -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M.

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