Contents -- Bio-statements -- Part I: Theoretical Issues -- Chapter 1 Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning: A Conceptual Overview -- Chapter 2 Discourse Domains: The Cognitive Context of Speaking -- Part II: Studying Spontaneous Spoken Discourse to Inform Second Language Learning -- Chapter 3 Conversation Analysis and the Nonnative English Speaking ESL Teacher: A Case Study -- Chapter 4 "Practicing Speaking" in Spanish: Lessons from a High School Foreign Language Classroom -- Chapter 5 Repair of Teenagers' Spoken German in a Summer Immersion Program -- Chapter 6 Codeswitching Patterns and Developing Discourse Competence in L2 -- Part III: Studying Elicited Spoken Discourse to Inform Second Language Learning -- Chapter 7 Giving Directions as a Speech Behavior: A Cross-cultural Comparison of L1 and L2 Strategies -- Chapter 8 English Constructions Used in Compensatory Strategies: Baseline Data for Communicative EFL Instruction -- Chapter 9 The Organization of Turns in the Disagreements of L2 Learners: A Longitudinal Perspective -- Chapter 10 The Linguistic Encoding of Pragmatic Tone: Adverbials1 as Words that Work -- Part IV: Studying Spoken Discourse to Inform Second Language Assessment -- Chapter 11 Discourse Analysis and the Oral Interview: Competence or Performance? -- Chapter 12 Dif.culty and Practicality in Tests of Interlanguage Pragmatics -- Chapter 13 Assessing Speech Acts in a Second Language -- Index.