THE BOAT'S GONNA LEAVE: A Study of Children Learning a Second Language from Conversations with Other Children -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- 1.INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Purpose of the study -- 1.2 Background: play, thought, language, and social skills -- 1.3 Conversation, play, and second language acquisition -- 1.4 Why conversation-play ? -- 2. DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY -- 2.1 The subjects -- 2.2 Data collection -- 2.3 Conversation topic -- 2.4 Situated and displaced speech -- 3. FIRST STEPS -- 3.1 Routines in situated speech -- 3.2 Language learning in situated speech discourse -- 3. 3 Summary -- 4. TOWARDS CONVERSATION -- 4.1 Sound-play -- 4.2 "Pretend" conversation-play -- 4.3 Language learning in displaced language discourse -- 4. 4 Summary -- 5. CONVERSATIONAL STRATEGIES -- 5.1 Argument -- 5.2 A matter of involvement -- 5.3 A matter of flexibility -- 5.4 A matter of ambiguity -- 5.5 Summary -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- 6.1 General findings -- 6.2 Implications for research -- 6.3 Implications for education -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES -- The series PRAGMATICS & BEYOND series.