Gabriele Kasper recently retired as a Professor of Second Language Studies. For the past two decades she has adopted conversation analysis and cognate approaches to study social interaction in diverse settings and re-examine standard social science research methods. Her contributions to research methodology in applied linguistics include early publications on verbal protocols and speech act pragmatics.
Select publications:
Kasper, G., & Ro, E. (2022). Student essays as evidential resource in placement meetings. Linguistics and Education, 72, 101-127.
Burch, A. R., & Kasper, G. (2021). Task instruction in OPI roleplays. In M. R. Salaberry & A. R. Burch (Eds.), Assessing speaking in context (pp. 67-108). Multilingual Matters.
Kasper, G., & Monfaredi, E. (2021. Storytelling as instructional practice in Persian language classrooms. In J. Wong & H. Z. Waring (Eds.), Storytelling in multilingual settings (pp. 119-159). Routledge.
Eskildsen, S. W., & Kasper, G. (2019). Interactional usage-based L2 pragmatics: From form-meaning pairings to construction-action relations. In N. Taguchi (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition and pragmatics (pp. 176–191). Routledge.
Kasper, G. & Ross, S. J. (Eds.) (2018). Inside knowledge production in applied linguistics: Research methods as interaction. Special Issue, Applied Linguistics Review 9:4.
Kääntä, L., & Kasper, G. (2018). Clarification requests as a method of pursuing understanding in CLIL physics lectures. Classroom Discourse, 9(3), 205-226.
Kääntä, L., Kasper, G., & Piirainen-Marsh, A. (2018). Definition talk in CLIL classroom interaction: a multimodal perspective. Applied Linguistics, 39(5), 694–717.
Roever, C., & Kasper, G. (2018). Speaking in turns and sequences: Interactional competence as a target construct in testing speaking. Language Testing, 35(3), 331–355.
Prior, M. T., & Kasper, G. (Eds.) (2016). Emotion in multilingual interaction. Benjamins.
Prior, M. T., & Kasper, G. (Eds.) (2015). Represented talk across activities and languages. Special Issue, Text & Talk 35:6.
Ross, S. J., & Kasper, G. (Eds.) (2013). Assessing second language pragmatics. Palgrave Macmillan.