Expanding individual difference research in the interaction approach investigating learners, instructors, and other interlocutors

Expanding individual difference research in the interaction approach investigating learners, instructors, and other interlocutors / edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss, Indiana University.

This book demonstrates why investigating the individual differences of all interlocutors with whom learners interact???including peer and heritage learners, instructors, researchers, and native speakers???is critical to understanding how second and foreign languages are taught and learned. Through s...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Series:AILA applied linguistics series ; v. 16.
Subjects:
Interaction analysis in education > Research.
Language and languages > Study and teaching.
Second language acquisition > Study and teaching.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Second language acquisition > Study and teaching
Interaction analysis in education > Research
Language and languages > Study and teaching
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Table of Contents:
  • Expanding Individual Difference Research in the Interaction Approach; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Expanding individual difference research in the interaction approach:Investigating learners, instructors, and other interlocutors; Motivation for the volume; The organizing Research Network (ReN); Intended audience; Structure of the volume; Learner IDs (Chapters 2â#x80;#x93;6); Instructor IDs (Chapters 7â#x80;#x93;12); Other interlocutors (Chapter 13); References; Learners.
  • Chapter 2. Overview of learner individual differences and their mediating effects on the process and outcome of L2 interactionIntroduction; Definitions and caveats; Research into learner individual differences; Learner individual differences in interactionist research; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3. The effects of cognitive aptitudes on the process and product of L2 interaction: A synthetic review; Introduction; Background; Method; Results; Discussion and conclusion; References; Appendix A. Studies on the relationship between working memory and the effects of corrective feedback.
  • Appendix B. Studies on the relationship between working memory and noticingAppendix C. Studies on the relationship between language aptitude and interaction; Chapter 4. The role of language analytic ability in the effectiveness of different feedback timing conditions; Introduction; Background; Method; Results; Discussion and conclusion; References; Chapter 5. Gender and recasts: Analysis of malesâ#x80;#x99; and femalesâ#x80;#x99; L2 development following verbal and gesture-enhanced recasts; Introduction; Background; Method; Results; Discussion and conclusion; Acknowledgements; References.
  • Chapter 6. Interaction and phonetic form in task completion: An examination of interlocutor effects in learner-learner and learner-heritage speaker interactionIntroduction; Background; Method; Results; Discussion and conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix. Sample map (Puerto Rico) from communicative map task; Instructors; Chapter 7. Instructor individual characteristics and L2 interaction; Introduction; Instructor individual characteristics and L2 interaction; Moving forward in this research domain; The interplay of instructor individual characteristics, learner IDs, and context.

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