Second and Foreign Language Learning Through Classroom Interaction

Brings together a set of papers that share the current theoretical interest in re-conceptualizing second & foreign language learning from a sociocultural perspective, with practical concerns about second & foreign language pedagogy.

Joan Kelly Hall, Lorrie Stoops Verplaetse

Contents: Preface. J.K. Hall, L.S. Verplaetse, The Development of Second and Foreign Language Learning Through Classroom Interaction. Part I: Classroom Interaction and Foreign Language Learning.C. Kinginger, Learning the Pragmatics of Solidarity in the Networked Foreign Language Classroom. A.S. Ohta, Rethinking Recasts: A Learner-Centered Examination of Corrective Feedback in the Japanese Language Classroom. P.N. Sullivan, Spoken Artistry: Performance in a Foreign Language Classroom. D.A. Consolo, Teachers' Action and Student Oral Participation in Classroom Interaction. P.A. Duff, Repetition in Foreign Language Classroom Interaction. E. Takahashi, T. Austin, Y. Morimoto, Social Interaction and Language Development in a FLES Classroom. Part II: Classroom Interaction and Second Language Learning.M. Boyd, V.M. Maloof, How Teachers Can Build On Student-Proposed Intertextual Links to Facilitate Student Talk in the ESL Classroom. D.E. McCormick, R. Donato, Teacher Questions as Scaffolded Assistance in an ESL Classroom. D. Boxer, F. Cortés-Conde, Identity and Ideology: Culture and Pragmatics in Content-Based ESL. L.S. Verplaetse, Mr. Wonder-ful: Portrait of a Dialogic Teacher. R. Damhuis, A Different Teacher Role in Language Arts Education: Interaction in a Small Circle With Teacher. M. Hajer, Creating a Language-Promoting Classroom: Content-Area Teachers at Work. J.K. Hall, Classroom Interaction and Additional Language Learning: Implications for Teaching and Research.