Second Language Interaction in Diverse Educational Contexts

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-272-1309-9
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 780 g

Reihe: Language Learning & Language Teaching

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDonough, Kim

Mackey, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors
Preface
Part I. Interactions in L2 classrooms
1. Promoting attention to form through task repetition in a Korean EFL context
2. Language-related episodes during collaborative tasks: A comparison of CLIL and EFL learners
3. The impact of increasing task complexity on L2 pragmatic moves
4. Tasks and traditional practice activities in a foreign language context
5. Building explicit L2 Spanish knowledge through guided induction in small group and whole class interaction
6. Classroom interaction and learning opportunities across time and space
Part II. Interactions involving technology
7. The cyber language exchange: Cross-national computer-mediated interaction
8. Using eye tracking as a measure of foreign language learners’ noticing of recasts during computer-mediated writing conferences
9. A corpus approach to studying structural convergence in task-based Spanish L2 interactions
10. Preemptive feedback in CALL
11. Learner perceptions of clickers as a source of feedback in the classroom
Part III. Interactions in other educational settings
12. International engineering graduate students’ interactional patterns on a paired speaking test: Interlocutors’ perspectives
13. The effectiveness of interactive group orals for placement testing
14. Interaction in conversation groups: The development of L2 conversational styles
15. Language production opportunities during whole-group interaction in conversation group settings
Appendix
Index