Language Learning and Teaching as Social Inter-Action - Paperback

by Z. Hua (Editor), P. Seedhouse (Editor), V. Cook (Editor)

This volume brings together contributions by leading researchers of the social interactional and socio-cultural approaches to language learning and teaching. It provides both an introduction to this important growth point and also an overview of cutting edge research, covering a wide range of language learning and teaching contexts.

Author Biography

ROBERT BAYLEY University of California, Davis, USA DAVID BLOCK Institute of Education, University of London, UK JEAN CONTEH University of Manchester, UK JEAN-MARC DEWAELE Birkbeck, University of London, UK VIKTORIA DRIAGINA Pennsylvania State University, USA ROD GARDNER Melbourne University, Australia GABRIELE KASPER University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA YOUNHEE KIM University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA JULIET LANGMAN University of Texas, San Antonio, USA NUMA MARKEE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA JENNY MILLER Monash University, Australia ANETA PAVLENKO Temple University, Philadelphia, USA SIMONA PEKAREK DOCHLER University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland ITESH SACHDEV School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK NIKHAT SHAMEEM University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK RICHARD YOUNG University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA TONY YOUNG University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK GUDRUN ZIEGLER University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland