Includes bibliographical references and index.

The psycholinguistics of the interaction approach / Nick Ellis -- A variationist perspective on the interaction approach / Elaine Tarone -- Languaging in collaborative writing : creation of and response to expertise / Lindsay Brooks and Merrill Swain -- Creating pressure in task pedagogy : the joint roles of field, purpose, and engagement within the interaction approach / Martin Bygate and Virginia Samuda -- Motivational processing in interactional tasks / Zoltán Dörnyei and Wen-Ta Tseng -- How young is too young? Investigating negotiation of meaning and feedback in children aged five to seven years / Rhonda Oliver -- Interaction research in second/foreign language classrooms / Nina Spada and Patsy M. Lightbown -- Recasts in multiple response focus on form episodes / Shawn Loewen -- Revealing the nature of SCMC interaction / Bryan Smith -- Interaction and attention to form in L2 text-based computer-mediated communication / Lourdes Ortega -- Epilogue : Exploring the intricacies of interaction and language development / Jenefer Philp.

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