Advanced Language Learning The Contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky
by Byrnes, HeidiFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-01-24
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
The reality of multicultural societies and globalization has increased the demand for language abilities. This book examines the acquisition of advanced levels of ability in three parts: theoretical; descriptive; and instructional. It also links systemic functional linguistics and sociocultural theory.
Table of Contents
| What kind of resource is language and why does it matter for advanced language learning? : an introduction | p. 1 |
| Educating for advanced foreign language capacities : exploring the meaning-making resources of languages systemic-functionally | p. 31 |
| Generalized collective dialogue and advanced foreign language capacities | p. 58 |
| Re(de)fining language proficiency in light of the concept of 'languaculture' | p. 72 |
| Languaging, agency and collaboration in advanced second language proficiency | p. 95 |
| Grammar as a resource for the construction of language logic for advanced language learning in Japanese | p. 109 |
| The linguistic features of advanced language use : the grammar of exposition | p. 134 |
| Grammatical metaphor : academic language development in Latino students in Spanish | p. 147 |
| Creating textual worlds in advanced learner writing : the role of complex theme | p. 164 |
| The dialogic construction of meaning in advanced L2 writing : Bakhtinian perspectives | p. 184 |
| Learning advanced French through SFL : learning SFL in French | p. 204 |
| Modelling a genre-based foreign language curriculum : staging advanced L2 learning | p. 227 |
| Advanced language for intermediate learners : corpus and register analysis for curriculum specification in English for academic purposes | p. 246 |
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