Interaction, Language Use, and Second Language Teaching

This book presents a view of human language as social interaction, illustrating its implications for language learning and second language teaching. //

The volume advocates for researchers, practitioners, and administrators to rethink and reconceptualize an understanding of language beyond that of the written word to one encompassing social and interactional activity built on co-construction, collaboration, and negotiation. The book emphasizes the ways in which this view of language can shed...