Sociocultural theory and Second Language Learning

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-442160-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Oxford University Press

This book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted on the learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective. The book is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. Specific topics covered include: learning and teaching languages in the zone of proximal development; L1 mediation in the acquisition of L2 grammar; sociocultural theory as a theory of second language learning; gestural mediation in a second language; and constructing a self through a second language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lantolf, James P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introducing sociocultural theory

- 1: Richard Donato: Sociocultural contributions to understanding the foreign and second language classroom

- 2: Amy Snyder Ohta: Rethinking interaction in SLA: Developmentally appropriate assistance in the zone of proximal development and the acquisition of L2 grammar

- 3: Regina Roebuck: Subjects speak out: How learners position themselves in a psycholinguistic task

- 4: Merrill Swain: The output hypothesis and beyond: Mediating acquisition through collaborative dialogue

- 5: Patricia N. Sullivan: Playfulness as mediation in communicative language teaching in a Vietnamese classroom

- 6: Claire Kramsch: Social discursive constructions of self in L2 learning

- 7: Aneta Pavlenko and James P. Lantolf: Second language learning as participation and the (re)construction of selves

- 8: Deryn P. Verity: Side affects: The strategic development of professional satisfaction

- 9: Steven G. McCafferty and Mohammed K. Ahmed: The appropriation of gestures of the abstract by L2 learners

- 10: Steven L. Thorne: Second language acquisition theory and the truth(s) about relativity

- 11: Leo van Lier
: From input to affordance: Social-interactive learning from an ecological perspective

- Bibliography

- Index