NEGOTIATED INTERACTION IN TARGET LANGUAGE CLASSROOM DISCOURSE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- for my mother and father with love -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription Conventions -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- Research Area -- 'Negotiated Interaction': Operational Definition -- Research Questions -- Hypotheses -- Rationale -- Organization of the Work -- CHAPTER 2. Negotiated Interaction in Second Language Acquisition -- Introduction -- On the Role of Comprehensibility in SLA -- Empirical Studies of Negotiated Interaction in SLA -- The Relationship between Negotiation and SLA -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3. Methodology -- Introduction -- Design of the Study -- Method of Analysis -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4. Foreign Language Interaction Analysis System (FLIAS) -- Introduction -- Discourse Units in the 'FLIAS' System -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5. Discourse Functions of Negotiation in the TL Classroom -- Introduction -- Didactic Negotiation -- Conversational Negotiation -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 6. Frequency Distribution of Negotiation in the TL Classroom -- Introduction -- Frequency of Negotiated and Non-negotiated Exchanges -- Frequency of Didactic and Conversational Negotiation -- Frequency of Didactic Negotiation Genres -- Frequency of Conversational Negotiation Genres -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 7. Negotiation in a Setting of Unequal-Power Discourse -- Introduction -- Initiating Negotiation or Negotiating Power? -- More on Pupil Negotiation of Power in TL Classroom Discourse -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 8. Conclusion -- Summary of Findings -- Conclusions -- Limitations -- Implications for Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics -- Suggestions for Further Research -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.