ABSTRACT
This chapter first develops a general outline of the practices that constitute interactional competence, then shows how members’ practices vary in terms of the sequential organization that characterizes three speech exchange systems that are of particular interest to SLA researchers: ordinary conversation, traditional classrooms, and non-traditional classrooms. Chapter 5 provides a similar account of how participants orient to different turn-taking procedures in these speech exchange systems, and chapter 6 shows how speakers do repair in the same three speech exchange systems.
