Learning a language with peers : elevating classroom voices

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Learning a language with peers : elevating classroom voices

Rebecca Adams and Rhonda Oliver

Routledge, 2023

  • : pbk

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"Drawing on experiences of ESOL teachers from around the world, this book provides insights into how peer learning is understood and used in real language classrooms. Based on survey responses, interviews, and observations in a wide range of classroom settings, this book integrates research on peer interaction in second language learning from cognitive and social frameworks with original data on teacher beliefs and practices around the use of peer learning in their teaching. Readers will gain understanding, through teacher's own words, of how peer interaction is used to teach linguistic form, how learners collaborate to develop oral and written communication skills, and how technology is used with peer learning. This book also delineates the ways that current second language peer interaction research diverges from classroom practice, concluding with a classroom-centred research agenda that addresses the nexus of research and practice on second language peer interaction"--Provided by publisher (p. [i])

Bibliography: p. [143]-153

Includes index

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* The first volume to focus on and present the perspectives of classroom teachers on peer learning in second language and foreign language settings to language researchers and teacher educators, bridging the divide between teaching and research on peer interaction in second language acquisition and heightening the relevance of second language research for language teaching in a wide variety of contexts. * Combining existing and new data from observations, interviews, surveys, and social media discourse, this work provides vital insights into how peer learning is understood and used by language teachers in real classrooms to promote second language learning, to develop language skills, and to manage the affective experience. * Allows second language researchers and teacher educators to better understand how to direct research and teaching efforts to produce empirical work that is relevant to the classroom, related to teacher priorities and classroom realities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1: Peer Interaction in Second Language Contexts 2: Focus Teachers, Teaching Contexts, and Data Collection 3: Why Teachers Use Peer Interaction to Promote Language Learning 4: Peer Interaction and Second Language Literacy 5: Peer Interactions with Technology 6: Factors Affecting Peer Interaction 7: Peer Interaction in the Classroom: Challenges and Concerns 8: Peer Interaction Research and Pedagogy References Appendix: Peer Interaction Survey Index

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