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Tim Greer is a professor in the School of Languages and Communication and the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies at Kobe University, Japan, where he teaches EFL and Applied Linguistics. His research employs Conversation Analysis to investigate second language use, language testing, and identity in interaction. He is particularly interested in naturally occurring L2 interaction beyond traditional classroom learning contexts, such as conversations between hairdressers and their clients or around the dinner table among study-abroad homestay families. His recent papers have been published in TESOL Quarterly, the Journal of Pragmatics, Second Language Research and the Modern Language Journal. In 2017 he co-edited a volume entitled Interactional Competence in Japanese as an Additional Language. He is currently working on a project that explores second language learning contexts that simulate “the wild” through experiential learning. He originally taught Japanese in Australian high schools, but has been teaching English in Japan since 1993.

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University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Eric Hauser is Associate Professor of English at the University of Electro-Communications, a  national university in Tokyo, Japan, that specializes in engineering and applied science. His  research involves the use of Conversation Analysis to analyze interaction in English and  Japanese, including interaction involving one or more second language users. He received  his doctorate from the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi  at Mānoa in December, 2003. He has published several book chapters and journal articles  related to his research, including Applied Linguistics, Language Learning, Modern Language  Journal, Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics, Gesture, and Text & Talk. He was previously  Associate Editor and then Editor of JALT Journal, the research journal of the Japan  Association for Language Teaching, and is currently Associate Editor of Linguistics and  Education.

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University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

Younhee Kim is an Assistant Professor at University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. Her main research interests are Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis as an approach to language learning, interaction with and among children, and teacher education. She has published in Journal of Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics, Journal of Teacher Education, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Pragmatics, Text & Talk, East Asian Pragmatics, and a few other journals as well as a few book chapters. Her current research interests lie in examining how sociocultural expectations such as moral dispositions and expected sentiments are embedded and constructed in ways of speaking, conversational moves and sequences, in parent-child interaction. 

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University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

Nguyen Thi Xuan Hue is an English lecturer at An Giang University, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City, Faculty of Foreign Languages. She is in her second year of the Ph.D. program in Applied Linguistics (English) at the University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. Her research interests are intercultural communication, educational, professional and social interactions. Conversation Analysis is substantially used to explore the practices of references between teachers and students, supervisors and supervisees, trainers and trainees or children and parents. The children’s acquisition of references and the interaction in LGBTQ+ community in Vietnam are her current research interests.

Dr. Hanh Nguyen is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Hawaii Pacific University (PhD and MA in English Language and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; BA in TEFL, University of Hue). Her research involves the use of episodic and longitudinal conversation analysis as well as membership categorization analysis to understand the development of interactional competence in a second language and at the workplace, classroom discourse, child language socialization, learners' identities, and Vietnamese applied linguistics. She  is the author of Developing Interactional Competence: A Conversation Analytic Study of Patient Consultations in Pharmacy (2012, Palgrave-MacMillan). She is the co-editor of Conversation Analytic Perspectives on English Language Learning, Teaching and Testing in Global Contexts (2019, Multilingual Matters), Pragmatics of Vietnamese as a Native and Target Language (2011), Talk-in-Interaction: Multilingual Perspectives (2009) and Pragmatics & Language Learning, Vol. 12 (2010). Her papers appear in several edited volumes and journals such as Applied Linguistics, Text and Talk, Journal of Pragmatics, The Modern Language Journal, The Canadian Modern Language Review, Language and Education, Classroom Discourse, Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, JALT, and Communication and Medicine.

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University of Otago, New Zealand

Dr Nguyen Thi Thuy Minh teaches TESOL and applied linguistics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research interests include pragmatics and interactional competence in language learning and teaching. She has published in various international journals and edited volumes published by international presses. Her forthcoming articles will appear in the Encyclopaedia of Applied Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell) and Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics (Oxford University Press). She is serving on the editorial board of Applied Pragmatics (John Benjamins), and the Asian Journal of English Language Teaching published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.

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Dr. Ngoc Nguyen is a lecturer of English at Hanoi College of Commerce and Tourism. She obtained her doctoral degree at the University of Queensland in 2016. Her current research interests include PhD supervisory talks, classroom interactions, and mentoring talks. In her studies, she uses conversation analysis as the main research method