Ebook: Social actions for classroom language learning

Based on socio-cultural approaches to research on language learning and classroom video recordings, this book documents language learning as an epiphenomenon of peer face-to-face interaction. This book provides web links so the reader can see the data from the classroom that is the subject of the analyses. Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Additional Language Learning in a Classroom Community of Practice; Chapter 2 Conversation Analysis as a Method for Understanding Language Learning; Chapter 3 Opening Dyadic Task Interactions; Chapter 4 Story Tellings in Dyadic Task Interactions; Chapter 5 Disengagements from Dyadic Task Interactions; Chapter 6 Conclusions; Appendix: Transcription Conventions; Notes; References; Index