Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning / Edition 2

by Diana Boxer, Andrew D. Cohen

Overview

In a series of studies specially written for this volume, Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning offers the applied linguist research on spoken interaction in second and foreign languages and provides insights as to how findings from each of these studies may inform language pedagogy. The volume offers an interweaving of discourse perspectives: speech acts, speech events, interactional analysis, pragmatics, and conversational analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853597206
Publisher:	Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Publication date:	05/11/2004
Series:	Second Language Acquisition , #8
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.85(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Diana Boxer is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the University of Florida and author of several books. Andrew D. Cohen is Professor in English as a Second Language Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and author of several books.

Table of Contents

Bio-statements
Part I: Theoretical Issues
1 Diana Boxer: Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning: A Conceptual Overview
2 Dan Douglas: Discourse Domains: The Cognitive Context of Speaking
Part II: Studying Spontaneous Spoken Discourse to Inform Second Language Learning
3 Anne Lazaraton: Conversation Analysis and the Nonnative English Speaking ESL Teacher: A Case Study
4 Joan Kelly Hall: “Practicing Speaking” in Spanish: Lessons from a High School Foreign Language Classroom
5 Heidi Hamilton: Repair of Teenagers’ Spoken German in a Summer Immersion Program
6 Helena Halmari: Codeswitching Patterns and Developing Discourse Competence in L2
Part III: Studying Elicited Spoken Discourse to Inform Second Language Learning
7 Carrie Taylor-Hamilton: Giving Directions as a Speech Behavior: A Cross-cultural Comparison of L1 and L2 Strategies
8 Koji Konishi and Elaine Tarone: English Constructions Used in Compensatory Strategies: Baseline Data for Communicative EFL Instruction
9 Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and Tom Salsbury: The Organization of Turns in the Disagreements of L2 Learners: A Longitudinal Perspective
10 Leslie M. Beebe and Hansun Zhang Waring: The Linguistic Encoding of Pragmatic Tone: Adverbials as Words that Work
Part IV: Studying Spoken Discourse to Inform Second Language Assessment
11 Annie Brown: Discourse Analysis and the Oral Interview: Competence or Performance?
12 Carsten Roever: Difficulty and Practicality in Tests of Interlanguage Pragmatics
13 Andrew D. Cohen: Assessing Speech Acts in a Second Language
Index