Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning (Second Language Acquisition (Buffalo, N.Y.), 8.)

✍ Scribed by Diana Boxer, Andrew D. Cohen

Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 345
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In a series of studies specially written for this volume, Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning offers the applied linguist research on spoken interaction in second and foreign languages and provides insights as to how findings from each of these studies may inform language pedagogy. The volume offers an interweaving of discourse perspectives: speech acts, speech events, interactional analysis, pragmatics, and conversational analysis.

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