This volume offers the first book-length treatment of second and foreign language learners' acquisition of pragmatics. It provides an up-to-date account of research findings and covers such central topics as the theoretical and empirical approaches to L2 pragmatic development, the relationship of pragmatic and grammatical development, the role of different learning contexts, the effect of instruction, and individual differences.
Comprehensive discussion of developmental interlanguage pragmatics, presenting an up-to-date account of research findings
Key source...
This volume offers the first book-length treatment of second and foreign language learners' acquisition of pragmatics. It provides an up-to-date accou...
Winner of the MLA Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize 2005
This monograph provides a model of the organisation of L2 classroom interaction and a practical methodology for its analysis. The main thesis is that there is a reflexive relationship between pedagogy and interaction in the L2 classroom; this relationship is the foundation of its context-free architecture.
Explains the basic principles of Conversation Analysis and reviews the literature on L2 classroom interaction.
Portrays the reflexive relationship between the pedagogical focus of the interaction and the...
Winner of the MLA Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize 2005
This monograph provides a model of the organisation of L2 classroom interaction and a p...
Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Award for Best Book on Language Testing 2009
This volume focuses on the social aspects of language testing, including assessment of socially situated language use and societal consequences of language tests. The authors argue that traditional approaches to ensuring social fairness in tests go some way to addressing social concerns, but a broader perspective is necessary to examine the functions of tests on a societal scale.
Considers these issues in relation to language assessment in oral proficiency interviews, and to the...
Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Award for Best Book on Language Testing 2009
This volume focuses on the social aspects of language testing, i...
Investigates the language learning, multiple literacy development, and schooling and community experiences of the Somali population in Minnesota - a community which is Muslim, refugee, and under-schooled
Brings together five years of interdisciplinary research, drawing upon theories from the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, education, and sociology
Uses a range of epistemological frames to explore central and contemporary problems that tie language learning to racialized, religious, and gendered identities
Argues for the...
Investigates the language learning, multiple literacy development, and schooling and community experiences of the Somali population in Minnes...
Currents in Language Learning provides programmatic state-of-the-art overviews of current issues in the language sciences and their applications in first, second, and bi/multilingual language acquisition in naturalistic and tutored contexts.
Draws on interdisciplinary perspectives from linguistics, psychology, education, anthropology, sociology, cognitive science, and neuroscience
Brings together a team of leading linguists to explore current issues
Develops research agendas in areas including: progress and relevance in second language acquisition;...
Currents in Language Learning provides programmatic state-of-the-art overviews of current issues in the language sciences and their applicat...
