Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has served as editor for the journals English for Specific Purposes and TESOL Quarterly.

Matthew T. Prior is Associate Professor of English (Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, and TESOL) at Arizona State University, USA. He has edited several volumes and journal special issues. Most recently, he served as associate editor of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, which he helped launch.

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List of contributors

1 Introduction
Brian Paltridge and Matthew T. Prior

Part I: Approaches and perspectives

2 Conversation analysis and second language research
Atsushi Hasegawa

3 Multimodal discourse analysis and second language research
Christoph Hafner

4 Narrative inquiry and second language research
Doris Warriner and Anne Pomerantz

5 Disciplinary discourses and second language literacies: A systemic functional linguistic perspective
Nicole Siffrinn and Meg Gebhard

6 Genre, discourse, and second language research
Christine M. Tardy and Jeroen Gevers

7 Grammatical complexity, discourse, and second language research
Ge Lan

8 Critical perspectives on discourse and second language research
Qinghua Chen, Yanmei Zheng, and Angel M. Y. Lin

9 A discursive psychological approach for second language acquisition research
Matthew T. Prior

10 Sociocultural theory and L2 discourse: From descriptive to interventionist research in second language acquisition
Amy Snyder Ohta

11 Sociocognitive perspectives on second language acquisition, teaching, and use
Dwight Atkinson, Anamaría Sagre Barboza, and Elif Burhan-Horasanl¿

12 Complex dynamic systems theory, interactional discourse, and second language research
Aki Siegel and Paul Seedhouse

13 Corpus approaches to discourse and second language research
Sheena Gardner

14 Ethnographic perspectives on discourse and second language research
Hanako Okada

15 Sociolinguistic perspectives on discourse and second language research
Corinne A. Seals and Honiara Salanoa

16 Language socialization, discourse, and second language research
Patricia A. Duff and Masaru Yamamoto

Part II: Types of discourse

17 Spoken discourse and second language research
Midori Ishida

18 Written discourse and second language research
Elena Cotos and Kimberly Becker

19 Disciplinary discourses and second language research
Bethany Gray and Chris Nuttall

20 Metadiscourse and second language research
Victor Ho

21 Classroom discourse and second language acquisition
Christopher Jenks and Olcay Sert

22 Multilingual discourse and second language research
Tarja Nikula and Anne Pitkänen-Huhta

Part III: Areas of use

23 Technology-mediated discourse and second language research
Vincenza Tudini and Anthony J. Liddicoat

24 Intercultural pragmatics, discourse, and second language research
Istvan Kecskes

25 Identity, discourse, and second language research
Elizabeth Miller

26 Gender, sexuality, discourse, and second language acquisition research
Susan Ehrlich and Tommaso Milani

27 Discourse, competence, and second language acquisition research
Daisuke Kimura

Index