Authenticity, Language and Interaction in Second Language Contexts

✍ Scribed by Rémi A. van Compernolle (editor); Janice McGregor (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses issues of authenticity and interaction in second language contexts from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Contributions focus on authenticity as it relates to patterns of language and meaning, and to agency, identity and culture, and examines authenticity in both classroom and study abroad situations.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
1 Introducing Authenticity, Language and Interaction in Second Language Contexts
2 Evaluating L2 Pragmatic Appropriateness and Authenticity in Synchronous Computer-mediated Strategic Interaction Scenarios
3 Authenticity and Pedagogical Grammar: A Concept-based Approach to Teaching French Auxiliary Verbs
4 Sociolinguistic Authenticity and Classroom L2 Learners: Production, Perception and Metapragmatics
5 Learning Speech Style in Japanese Study Abroad: Learners’ Knowledge of Normative Use and Actual Use
6 Gender, Youth and Authenticity: Peer Mandarin Socialization Among American Students in a Chinese College Dorm
7 Authenticating Language Choices: Out-of-Class Interactions in Study Abroad
8 Authenticating Practices in Chinese Homestay Interactions
9 Metapragmatic Talk and the Interactional Accomplishment of Authenticity in Study Abroad
10 Focus on Form in the Wild
11 Conclusions and Future Directions
Index