Talks about native English speakers teaching English as a global language in non-English speaking countries. Through analysis of naturally occurring dialogic encounters, this book examines the multifaceted ways in which teachers and students utilize diverse communicative resources to construct, display, and negotiate their identities.

Classroom Interactions as Cross-Cultural Encounters is about native English speakers teaching English as a global language in non-English speaking countries. Through analysis of naturally occurring dialogic encounters, the authors examine the multifaceted ways in which teachers and students utilize diverse communicative resources to construct, display, and negotiate their identities as teachers, learners, and language users, with different pedagogic, institutional, social, and political implications.

"The book is obviously situated within the most recent research on classroom interaction.... The classroom data are fascinating.... Particularly noteworthy is the authors' presentation of their own conceptual framework, based on work in critical discourse analysis, postcolonial studies, language and identity research, and classroom interaction analysis."—James W. TollefsonInternational Christian University, Japan