Sociocultural theory and second language learning
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Sociocultural theory and second language learning
（Oxford applied linguistics）
Oxford University Press, 2000
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-285) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introducing sociocultural theory
- 1. Sociocultural contributions to understanding the foreign and second language classroom
- 2. Rethinking interaction in SLA: Developmentally appropriate assistance in the zone of proximal development and the acquisition of L2 grammar
- 3. Subjects speak out: How learners position themselves in a psycholinguistic task
- 4. The output hypothesis and beyond: Mediating acquisition through collaborative dialogue
- 5. Playfulness as mediation in communicative language teaching in a Vietnamese classroom
- 6. Social discursive constructions of self in L2 learning
- 7. Second language learning as participation and the (re)construction of selves
- 8. Side affects: The strategic development of professional satisfaction
- 9. The appropriation of gestures of the abstract by L2 learners
- 10. Second language acquisition theory and the truth(s) about relativity
- 11. From input to affordance: Social-interactive learning from an ecological perspective
- Bibliography
- Index
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