Description: Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: online intercultural talk-in-interaction 2. Towards a definition of online intercultural chat: insights from SLA 3. Turn-taking, adjacency pairs and sequencing 4. Conversational repair in online intercultural chat: initiation and resolution by self or other 5. Other-repair in online intercultural chat: when native speakers do correction 6. Mitigation and play in repair sequences: native speakers & learners constructing intersubjectivity 7. Insights from unsuccessful repair sequences 8. Implications for SLA research and language teaching 9. Integrating online chat in foreign language programs: suggestions and resources Appendix 1. Full extended chat session of one native speaker-learner dyad including papaveri sequence Appendix 2. Complete brief multiple chat sessions of one learner, including sono andata sopra sequence Appendix 3. Instructions on how to access Facebook chat Bibliography Index

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