Interaction and second language development : a Vygotskian perspective

Interaction and second language development : a Vygotskian perspective / Rémi A. van Compernolle, Carnegie Mellon University.

"This volume addresses the role of communicative interaction in driving various dimensions of second language development from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. Emphasizing the dialectical relationship between the external-social world and individual mental functioning, th...

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Main Author: Compernolle, Rémi A. van (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Series:Language learning and language teaching ; v. 44.
Subjects:
Vygotskiĭ, L. S. > (Lev Semenovich), > 1896-1934.
Vygotskiĭ, L. S. > (Lev Semenovich), > 1896-1934
Second language acquisition.
Interlanguage (Language learning)
Social interaction.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Language and culture > Study and teaching.
Psycholinguistics.
psycholinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Language and culture > Study and teaching
Psycholinguistics
Second language acquisition
Social interaction
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Table of Contents:
  • Interaction and Second Language Development; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Transcription conventions ; Chapter€1. Introduction ; 1.1 Interaction and SLA; 1.1.1 The interaction hypothesis; 1.1.2 Toward a stronger conception of social interaction in SLA; 1.1.3 Interaction and Vygotskian sociocultural theory; 1.2 Organization of the book; Chapter€2. Key concepts and theoretical considerations; 2.1 Mediational means; 2.1.1 Psychological tools and human mediation; 2.1.2 Language and communicative interaction.
  • 2.1.3 Language meaning and emergent structure2.2 Internalization and zone of proximal development; 2.2.1 Linking the social-external and the individual-internal; 2.2.2 Zone of proximal development; 2.2.3 Instruction, learning, and development; 2.3 Microdiscourse analysis as an approach to understanding interaction and L2 development; 2.3.1 An emic perspective on talk-for-action; 2.3.2 Transcription and representation of interaction; 2.3.3 Capturing the process "in flight"; 2.4 Pedagogical implications; Data session 1; The data; Line-by-line analysis and elaborating the transcript.
  • Questions for discussionChapter€3. Communicative interaction as a source and driver of development; 3.1 More on communicative interaction from the SCT perspective; 3.1.1 From acquisition to internalization; 3.1.2 From interaction as context to interaction as joint activity; 3.1.3 Assisted performance, scaffolding, and human mediation; 3.2 Tracing the genesis of L2 abilities in interaction; 3.2.1 Linking knowledge of language to performance; 3.2.2 Imitation and internalization; 3.3 The genesis of conscious L2 knowledge in interaction; 3.3.1 The growth of L2 knowledge in meaning-focused tasks.
  • 3.3.2 The growth of L2 knowledge in collaborative awareness-raising tasks3.4 Pedagogical implications; Data session 2; The data; Transcription and analysis; Questions for discussion; Chapter€4. L2 interaction and negotiation for meaning; 4.1 Negotiation for meaning as co-regulation; 4.1.1 Maintaining intersubjectivity in interaction; 4.1.2 Negotiating appropriate forms of support; 4.2 Initiation and uptake of human mediation; 4.2.1 Self-initiated mediation sequences; 4.2.2 Other-initiated mediation sequences; 4.2.3 The mediation sequence as a unit of microgenetic analysis.
  • 4.3 Incidental microgenesis4.3.1 Repair-mediated incidental microgenesis; 4.3.2 Picking up and recycling L2 resources; 4.3.3 Summary; 4.4 Pedagogical implications; Data session 3; The data; Co-regulation and mediation sequences; Questions for discussion; Chapter€5. The role of L1 interaction in L2 development; 5.1 Maximal and optimal use; 5.2 L1 use during L2 tasks; 5.2.1 L1 collaborative dialogue; 5.2.2 Intrapersonal functioning and L1 use; 5.3 L1 interaction for L2 metalinguistic development; 5.3.1 Sociopragmatics in L2 French; 5.3.2 Focus and declension in L2 German.

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