Becoming a Member in Social Worlds
: The interface of learning and socialization in L2 interactions, Skogmyr Marian, Klara and Simona Pekarek Doehler (eds.), pp. 192–198 | ReviewSamuel Schirm
List of John Benjamins publications in which Samuel Schirm is involved.
Articles
2025 Review of Nguyen & Malabarba (2025): Developing interactional competence at the workplace: Learning English as a foreign language on the shop floor
2024 From doing work on your own talk to doing work on others’ talk: The longitudinal development of also ‘so’ in L2 German Interactional Linguistics 4:1, pp. 68–96 | Article
Research on L2 interactional competence (IC) has become increasingly focused on how L2 speakers develop and recalibrate linguistic resources to do interactional work, i.e., how L2 speakers develop a grammar-for-interaction (Pekarek Doehler 2018). In this paper, I use interactional linguistics to… read more
2023 The competence in little words: Response patterns in German L2 interaction Describing and assessing interactional competence in a second language: Special issue of the journal of Applied Pragmatics 5:2 (2023), Betz, Emma, Taiane Malabarba and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (eds.), pp. 142–168 | Article
L2 frameworks, such as the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, describe expected linguistic abilities at different levels of L2 development. These frameworks, and the assessment rubrics they inform, only peripherally address how L2 speakers respond to informings in interaction.… read more