Dr. Matt Kanwit has published a new (2023) co-edited volume titled "Communicative Competence in a Second Language: Theory, Method, and Applications”. It appears through Routledge Press as part of the Second Language Acquisition Research Series (series editors Susan Gass & Alison Mackey). https://www.routledge.com/Communicative-Competence-in-a-Second-Language-...
The volume, co-edited with Megan Solon, includes 18 authors originating from or based in Australia, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, the UK, the US, and Vietnam. In addition to overview and future directions chapters by Kanwit and Solon, it includes theoretical chapters from generative (Pitt's own Alan Juffs), sociolinguistic (Kimberly Geeslin & Stacey Hanson, Indiana University), and sociocultural (Matthew Poehner, Pennsylvania State University) perspectives; methodological chapters highlighting ethnographic (Rebecca Lurie Starr, National University of Singapore), psycholinguistic (Jill Jegerski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Sara Fernández Cuenca, Wake Forest University), and computational/corpus methods (Stefan Gries, University of California at Santa Barbara and Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany); and applications to pragmatics (Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen, University of Otago, New Zealand), L2 writing (Charlene Polio & Phil Montgomery, Michigan State University), computer-assisted language learning (Glenn Stockwell & Yurika Ito, Waseda University, Japan), and language assessment (Luke Harding, Lancaster University, UK; Susy Macqueen, Australian National University; & John Pill, Lancaster University, UK).
Reference information for the volume is as follows: Kanwit, M., & Solon, M. (Eds.). (2023). Communicative competence in a second language: Theory, method, and applications. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003160779
Drs. Kanwit and Solon are grateful to Lourdes Ortega, Luke Plonsky, & Vera Regan for their kind endorsements and to the generous proposal and chapter reviewers for their helpful comments that greatly improved the volume. Faculty, students, and staff at Pitt and the editors' previous home departments have also been enormously helpful in providing the professional structure to complete the project.