The Practical Nature of L2 Teaching: A Conversation Analytic Perspective - Softcover

Hall, Joan Kelly; He, Yingliang; Khor, Su Yin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032235101 ISBN 13: 9781032235103

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Drawing on video recordings and transcripts from a wide range of L2 teaching contexts, The Practical Nature of L2 Teaching presents a comprehensive examination of eight sets of specialized actions and action sequences involved in whole group instruction.

Each of the chapters highlights in exquisite detail the sophisticated, real-world accomplishment of L2 teaching. The purpose is not to impose a vision of how L2 teaching should be done. Instead, it is to illuminate its complexities and, in so doing, reveal informative differences between idealized understandings of L2 teaching and its lived realities.

The book is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers studying and working in the areas of classroom interaction, L2 teaching, and L2 teacher education.

About this title

About the Author

Joan Kelly Hall is Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research draws on conversation analysis and interactional linguistics to document the specialized interactional practices and actions of teaching-and-learning found in instructional settings.

Yingliang He is a PhD candidate in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. His research uses conversation analysis to investigate academic discourse. He has also conducted work in cognitive linguistics on cross-cultural and cross-linguistic conceptual metaphors.

Su Yin Khor is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and Director of the Writing Program at College of the Atlantic. Her research focuses on second language learning and teaching, specifically second language writing, literacy, and language socialization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032235101
• ISBN 13: 9781032235103
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320