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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100194421600

ISBN-139780194421607

eBay Product ID (ePID)1770787

Product Key Features

Number of Pages302 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning

SubjectEnglish As a Second Language, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics

Publication Year2000

TypeLanguage Course

AuthorJames P. Lantolf

Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines

SeriesOxford Applied Linguistics Ser.

FormatUk-Trade Paper

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight16.6 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceEnglish as a Second Language

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal401.9/3

Table Of ContentIntroducing sociocultural theory1. Sociocultural contributions to understanding the foreign and second language classroom2. Rethinking interaction in SLA: Developmentally appropriate assistance in the zone of proximal development and the acquisition of L2 grammar3. Subjects speak out: How learners position themselves in a psycholinguistic task4. The output hypothesis and beyond: Mediating acquisition through collaborative dialogue5. Playfulness as mediation in communicative language teaching in a Vietnamese classroom6. Social discursive constructions of self in L2 learning7. Second language learning as participation and the (re)construction of selves8. Side affects: The strategic development of professional satisfaction9. The appropriation of gestures of the abstract by L2 learners10. Second language acquisition theory and the truth(s) about relativity11. From input to affordance: Social-interactive learning from an ecological perspectiveBibliographyIndex

SynopsisThis book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted into the learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective., 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; andconstructing a self through a second language., 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.