The topic of this book, part of a new series published by Benjamins entitled Pragmaticsand beyond, is negotiated interaction. It begins with a lengthy introduction to the subjectmatter, and then presents an empirical study of negotiated interaction in English as a foreignlanguage classrooms in Morocco. The first two chapters (a third of the text) seek tooperationalize interaction and define the role of negotiated interaction in second languageacquisition (SLA). These chapters are useful in the sense that they provide a fairly comprehensivereview of the literature prior to 1991. However, the field has come a long way since that time, anda decade of crucial work is missing from this 1999 book.