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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820456703321

Autore

Byrnes Heidi

Titolo

Advanced Language Learning : The Contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2008

ISBN

1-282-87352-0

9786612873522

1-4411-2225-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

418

Soggetti

Applied linguistics

Functionism (Linguistics)

Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), 1925-

Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching

Second language acquisition

Vygotskii, L. S. (Lev Semenovich), 1896-1934

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; What kind of resource is language and why does it matter for advanced language learning? An introduction; Part I: Theoretical Considerations in Advanced Instructed Learning; 1 Educating for advanced foreign language capacities: exploring the meaning-making resources of languages systemic-functionally; 2 Generalized collective dialogue and advanced foreign language capacities; 3 Re (de)fining language proficiency in light of the concept of 'languaculture'; Part II: Description and Pedagogy

4 Languaging, agency and collaboration in advanced second language proficiency5 Grammar as a resource for the construction of language logic for advanced language learning in Japanese; 6 The linguistic features of advanced language use: the grammar of exposition; 7 Grammatical metaphor: academic language development in Latino students in Spanish; 8 Creating textual worlds in advanced learner writing: the role of complex theme; 9 The dialogic construction of



meaning in advanced L2 writing: Bakhtinian perspectives; 10 Learning advanced French through SFL: learning SFL in French

Part III: Programmatic and Curricular Issues11 Modelling a genre-based foreign language curriculum: staging advanced L2 learning; 12 Advanced language for intermediate learners: corpus and register analysis for curriculum specification in English for Academic Purposes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

'The editor and authors in this volume make a convincing case for focusing on advanced foreign language instruction. Importantly, they invite consideration of this focus as an opportunity to re-examine conventional definitions of the target of instruction. In so doing, readers also learn more about the theories highlighted in this volume, and their capacity to enhance our understanding of advancedness and its development within an educational context. This book thus mediates between linguistic and language learning theories and educational practice, modelling the very best of what applied ling