Social Networks in Language Learning and Language Teaching

✍ Scribed by Avary Carhill-Poza; Naomi Kurata

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Sociocultural research has long recognized the necessity of sustained interpersonal interaction for language development; however, less is known about the underlying relationships that promote language acquisition and their relevance for classroom language teaching. Presenting cutting-edge research on social networks and their applications in language teaching and language learning, this book explores the relationships that mediate language learning in and out of classrooms.
Highlighting the complexity of language in multilingual contexts, chapters engage social network analysis to understand the role of instructional practices, socialization, motivation, language status, affinity, mobile communications technology, and language policies in the development of social resources for language learning. Discussing popular language teaching frameworks such as translanguaging, Social Networks in Language Learning and Language Teaching provides a nuanced account of the influences of social context on language learning, exploring classroom applications and pointing the way to a robust research agenda.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustration
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Social Network Analysis and its Application in Applied Linguistics
Part I: Immigrant Children and Adolescents’ Social Networks in School Settings
Chapter 2: The Social Networks of Adolescent Emergent Bilinguals in High School
Chapter 3: Social Networks and Patterns of Participation in Linguistically Heterogeneous Classrooms
Chapter 4: Social Networks with PurposeHeritage Language Networks of Practice among Transnational and Transcultural Japanese Youth in Sydney
Part II: Out-of-Class Social Networks of University Students in Home-Country Settings
Chapter 5: The Effects of Social Networks on L2 Experiences and Motivation: A Longitudinal Case Study of a University Student of Japanese in Australia
Chapter 6: Changing Informal Language Learning Networks in a Gulf Arab Community
Chapter 7: How Do Social Networks FacilitateOut-of-Class L2 Learning Activities?
Part III: Social Networks in Study Abroad Contexts
Chapter 8: Implementing Mental Contrastingto Improve English Language Learner Social Networks
Chapter 9: Developing Friendship or Practicing Japanese?: Differential Impacts of Language Pledge on Study Abroad Students
Chapter 10: Social Network Development and Language Learning in Multilingual Study Abroad Contexts
Concluding Discussion
Chapter 11: A Social Network Perspective on Language Teaching
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index