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The volume makes a significant contribution to the literature in two ways. First, as the editors of the book point out, each chapter points out a gap in the existing literature, a topic that has not yet been explored, or uses a new experimental methodology to deal with a long-standing issue. […] Another positive feature of the volume is its wide range of content scope and rich variety of experimental and data analysis methods used. At the same time, it is still easy to identify a coherent theme within the sections, each of which contains four to six chapters. […] Overall, the novelty in several studies and the variety of experimental approaches adopted in different chapters encourage scholars familiar with the “interaction” tradition to consider this concept in new ways. Finally, due to the background information provided, the volume can also be a useful resource for researchers and teachers who are relatively new to the subject of interactional studies in SLA. — Yi Xu, University of Pittsburgh, on Linguist List 24.3064, 2013

I commend the editors for bringing together such diverse and methodologically sound studies, all examining L2 interaction from very different perspectives. This book is a valuable resource for scholars interested in L2 interaction. Potentially, this book could be used for graduate courses on L2 interaction or even for a course that provides an overview of the broad variety of SLA research. This volume is certain to provide inspiration for more―particularly more diverse―research on L2 interaction, and it should motivate follow-up and replication research. — Maren Uggen, Kalamazoo College, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition 36(3): 598-600, 2014