MORE often than not, language abilities are measured by way of fluency and accuracy in accomplishing context-free language tasks. This is evident in how internationally recognized tests like the ...

Language proficiency assessment encompasses a diverse range of methodologies designed to evaluate an individual’s communicative abilities, from grammatical precision to the dynamic management of ...

Feedback is one of the most important aspects of teacher education, but how exactly it works in practice remains ...

Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics (CA/IL) is the study of the mutually shaping relationship between linguistic resources and social interaction. We take a cross-linguistic and ...

HSSH Visiting Professor Simona Pekarek Doehler is giving an open lecture as part of the project launch seminar: "Speaking of art: Speaker positioning and interactional competence in L1/L2 Swedish".

Having a strong academic background isn’t the only factor that determines whether someone will make a good doctor. Social competence and communication skills are just as important as medical knowledge ...

This article presents a case study of a police interrogation of a nonnative speaker (NNS) of English. I show that the high linguistic and conceptual complexity of police cautions, such as the Miranda ...