This book addresses what is about to become one of the great challenges and opportunities of the emerging information societythe need for, and the development of, a global teletranslation industry.

The theme of this collection is a discussion of the notions of 'norms' and 'standards', which are studied from various different angles, but always in relation to the English language. These terms are to be understood in a very wide sense, allowing discussions of topics such as the norms we orient to in social interaction, the benchmark employed in teaching, or the development of English dialects and varieties over time and space and their relation to the standard language.

This book provides an up-to-date investigation of the developing discourses of English Language teachers in a variety of international contexts.It looks at spoken and written discourse from novices to experienced professionals. It contains 4 sections, each based on a different stage in the career of a hypothetical English language teacher. The chapters use the teachers' own voices to tell the stories of their professional development in a particular context, but each individual experience is made relevant to others in the field.

Conversation analysis is a methodology that originated over three decades ago as a sociolinguistic approach but has since been adopted by scholars in a variety of other areas, including applied linguistics and communication. It is of great utility in second language acquisition research for its demonstrations of how micro-moments of socially distributed cognition instantiated in conversational behavior contribute to observable changes in the participants' states of knowing and using a new language.