Synopses & Reviews
An exciting new collection by world-leading researchers in L2 learning addressing: Why do conceptions of 'learning' vary so much in L2 learning research? Is there a conceptualisation of 'learning' to which members of different schools of SLA can subscribe?
About the Author
PAUL SEEDHOUSE is Professor of Educational and Applied Linguistics in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK. His monograph
The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom won the 2005 Modern Languages Association of America Mildenberger Prize. He currently has a second grant from the IELTS consortium to look at topic development in the IELTS speaking test.
STEVE WALSH is senior lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics and Director of Postgraduate Research at Newcastle University, UK. He has many years' experience as a teacher and teacher educator, much of it overseas. His research interests include Classroom Discourse, L2 teacher education and social interaction.
CHRIS JENKS is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK, where he teaches courses on conversation analysis and task-based learning. His current work is concerned with voice-based interaction in computer-mediated media, task-based interaction, English as a lingua franca interaction, and institutional discourse.
Table of Contents
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Notes on the Editors and Contributors
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Introduction; S.Walsh&C.Jenks
Prolegomena to Second Language Learning; V.Cook
Theoretical Pluralism in SLA: Is there a Way Forward?; R.Ellis
Having and Doing: Learning from a Complexity Theory Perspective; D.Larsen-Freeman
A Cognitive View of Language Acquisition: Processability Theory and Beyond; M.Pienemann
Vocabulary Learning in a Second