Ideas of social interaction are increasingly having an impact upon research into the learning and teaching of second languages. The aims of this book are to: demonstrate the importance of investigating second language learning and teaching from a social-interactional and sociocultural perspective; describe the implications of the social-interaction perspective for the practice of language teaching and learning including teacher education; outline some interdisciplinary links between the social-interactional and sociocultural approaches to language learning and teaching and other approaches such as the social constructionist approach.
In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the ‘New Literacy Studies’. This book serves as a classic introduction to the study of language, learning and literacy in their social, cultural and political contexts. It shows how contemporary sociocultural approaches to language and literacy emerged.
This collection of essays examines the historical, social, cultural, and educational foundations of Esl/Efl/Bilingual Education. The four themes of this book are: ¨ Historical, Legal and Political Foundations of Bilingual/Esl Education ¨ Linguistic and Sociocultural Issues in Esl/Efl Education ¨ Educational Reform and English Language Teaching ¨ Effectively Teaching Bilingual/Esl/Efl Students This volume offers a concise overview of English language learning issues from foundations to current reform to practical guidelines to implement in the classroom.
Contexts for Learning: Sociocultural Dynamics in Children's Development
This provocative new work on children's development in context presents recent theoretical developments and research findings that have been generated by sociocultural theory. Sociocultural theory began with the work of L.S. Vygotsky and his colleagues but has been significantly expanded and modified recent years. This book will be of interest to a wide range of researchers, educators, and students concerned with the theory and practice of developmental, educational, social, and cognitive psychology.
The Dynamics of Language Use: Functional And Contrastive Perspectives (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series) This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricably embedded in sociocultural and psychological contexts of use.
