Second Language Interaction in Diverse Educational Contexts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Second Language Interaction in Diverse Educational Contexts write by Kim McDonough. This book was released on 2013. Second Language Interaction in Diverse Educational Contexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together empirical research that explores interaction in a wide range of educational settings. It includes work that takes a cognitive, brain-based approach to studying interaction, as well as studies that take a social, contextual perspective. Interaction is defined quite broadly, with many chapters focusing on oral interaction as is typical in the field, while other chapters report work that involves interaction between learners and technology. Several studies describe the linguistic and discourse features of interaction between learners and their interlocutors, but others demonstrate how interaction can serve other purposes, such as to inform placement decisions. The chapters in the book collectively illustrate the diversity of contemporary approaches to interaction research, investigating interactions with different interlocutors ( learner-learner, learner-teacher), in a variety of environments (classrooms, interactive testing environments, conversation groups) and through different modalities (oral and written, face-to-face and technology-mediated).
Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning
Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning write by Jenefer Philp. This book was released on 2013-11-07. Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning synthesizes the existing body of research on the role of peer interaction in second language learning in one comprehensive volume. In spite of the many hours that language learners spend interacting with peers in the classroom, there is a tendency to evaluate the usefulness of this time by comparison to whole class interaction with the teacher. Yet teachers are teachers and peers are peers – as partners in interaction, they are likely to offer very different kinds of learning opportunities. This book encourages researchers and instructors alike to take a new look at the potential of peer interaction to foster second language development. Acknowledging the context of peer interaction as highly dynamic and complex, the book considers the strengths and limitations of peer work from a range of theoretical perspectives. In doing so, Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning clarifies features of effective peer interaction for second language learning across a range of educational contexts, age spans, proficiency levels, and classroom tasks and settings.
Using Tasks in Second Language Teaching
Using Tasks in Second Language Teaching - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Using Tasks in Second Language Teaching write by Craig Lambert. This book was released on 2020-07-15. Using Tasks in Second Language Teaching available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the use of tasks in second language instruction in a variety of international contexts, and addresses the need for a better understanding of how tasks are used in teaching and program-level decision-making. The chapters consider the key issues, examples, benefits and challenges that teachers, program designers and researchers face in using tasks in a diverse range of contexts around the world, and aim to understand practitioners’ concerns with the relationship between tasks and performance. They provide examples of how tasks are used with learners of different ages and different proficiency levels, in both face-to-face and online contexts. In documenting these uses of tasks, the authors of the various chapters illuminate cultural, educational and institutional factors that can make the effective use of tasks more or less difficult in their particular context.
Teaching Young Second Language Learners
Teaching Young Second Language Learners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching Young Second Language Learners write by Rhonda Oliver. This book was released on 2018-06-12. Teaching Young Second Language Learners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adopting a learner-centred approach that places an emphasis on hands-on child SL methodology, this book illustrates the practices used to teach young second language learners in different classroom contexts: (1) English-as-an-Additional-Language-or-Dialect (EAL/D) – both intensive EAL/D and EAL/D in the mainstream (2) Language-Other-Than-English (LOTE) (3) Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL), (4) Indigenous (5) Foreign-Language (FL). It will be particularly useful to undergraduate teachers to build upon the literacy unit they undertake in the first years of their course to explore factors that constitute an effective child SL classroom and, in practical terms, how to develop such a classroom. The pedagogical strategies for teaching young language learners in the six chapters are firmly guided by research-based findings, enabling not only pre-service teachers but also experienced teachers to make informed choices of how to effectively facilitate the development of the target language, empowering them to assume an active and effective role of classroom practitioners.
Authenticity, Language and Interaction in Second Language Contexts
Authenticity, Language and Interaction in Second Language Contexts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Authenticity, Language and Interaction in Second Language Contexts write by Rémi A. van Compernolle. This book was released on 2016-04-20. Authenticity, Language and Interaction in Second Language Contexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection addresses issues of authenticity in second language contexts from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches along three principal themes: What is authentic language? Who is an authentic speaker? How is authenticity achieved? The volume responds to these questions by bringing together scholars working in a range of contexts, including with language learners in the classroom and in residence or study abroad, with a variety of second or additional languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. Contributions focus on authenticity as it relates to patterns of language and meaning, and to agency, identity and culture, and serve as an opening to an extended conversation about the nature of authenticity and its development in L2 contexts. This volume is relevant for students and scholars interested in learning about or investigating questions of authenticity and interaction in a wide range of language learning contexts.
