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The investigation of this speech community begins with an extensive description of the community and then analyzes the patterns of communication and interactions of the community through assessing various speech events and issues. Chapter IV provides an overview of the community, describing how members gather and talk in different venues. This chapter also portrays how members interact and communicate in the community by examining their ways of talking and gathering under the influence of both compulsory (institutional) and spontaneous (social) forces. Chapter V then examines how non- native speakers construct interactions in the presence of a native English instructor in the classroom. This chapter further demonstrates how instructor/student interactions initiate interactions among students and analyzes how non-native speakers develop turn-taking sensibilities and co-construct interactions. Finally, Chapter VI explains why participants become involved in seminar-type discussions in varying degrees, and analyzes and demonstrates the participation styles of less involved participants.