Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning

In a series of studies specially written for this volume, Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning offers the applied linguist research on spoken interaction in second and foreign languages and provides insights as to how findings from each of these studies may inform language pedagogy. The volume offers an interweaving of discourse perspectives: speech acts, speech events, interactional analysis, pragmatics, and conversational analysis.

In this chapter, I investigate the codeswitching patterns in a set of longitudinal
data collected from naturally occurring conversations by two young Finnish
Americans during their 12 years in the United States, in order to show the
following two ...