Language Learning and Teaching as Social Inter-action

by Z. Hua (Editor), P. Seedhouse (Editor), V. Cook (Editor), L. Wei (Editor)

Overview

This volume brings together contributions by leading researchers of the social interactional and socio-cultural approaches to language learning and teaching. It provides both an introduction to this important growth point and also an overview of cutting edge research, covering a wide range of language learning and teaching contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230517004
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/31/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

ROBERT BAYLEY University of California, Davis, USA DAVID BLOCK Institute of Education, University of London, UK JEAN CONTEH University of Manchester, UK JEAN-MARC DEWAELE Birkbeck , University of London, UK VIKTORIA DRIAGINA Pennsylvania State University, USA ROD GARDNER Melbourne University, Australia GABRIELE KASPER University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA YOUNHEE KIM University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA JULIET LANGMAN University of Texas, San Antonio, USA NUMA MARKEE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA JENNY MILLER Monash University, Australia ANETA PAVLENKO Temple University, Philadelphia, USA SIMONA PEKAREK DOCHLER University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland ITESH SACHDEV School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK NIKHAT SHAMEEM University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK RICHARD YOUNG University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA TONY YOUNG University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK GUDRUN ZIEGLER University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Table of Contents

Introduction: Zhu Hau, P.Seedhouse, Li Wei & V.Cook PART 1: INTERACTIONAL FOUNDATIONS Interaction and Constructs; P.Seedhouse Handling Sequentially Inapposite Responses; G.Kasper & Y.Kim Invitation Talk; N.Markee Bricolage in Turn Starts in L2 Talk; R.Gardner Sequential organization in Immersion Classrooms; S.Pekarek Doehler & G.Ziegler PART 2: IDENTITY AND SOCIAL ACTION Socialising Second Language Acquisition; D.Block Identity Repertories in Learner Narratives; V.Driagina & A.Pavlenko Presentation of 'Self' in Application Letters; Zhu Hua Identity Construction in Teacher Education; J.Miller Context and L2 Users' Pragmatic Development; J-M.Dewaele PART 3: MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOMS Bilingualism in Mainstream Primary Classrooms; J.Conteh Social Interaction in Multilingual Classrooms; N.Shameem Untutored Acquisition in Content Classrooms; J.Langman & R.Bayley Learning Styles in Multilingual Classrooms; T.Young & I.Sachdev Coda: Language Learning and Teaching as Discursive Practice; R.Young Bibliography Index