03884nam 22005893u 450 991082045670332120240513023136.01-282-87352-097866128735221-4411-2225-7(CKB)2670000000056051(EBL)601667(OCoLC)682540772(MiAaPQ)EBC601667(EXLCZ)99267000000005605120130418d2008|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAdvanced Language Learning The Contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky1st ed.London Continuum International Publishing20081 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8264-4308-7 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 Pedagogy4 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 FrenchPart 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'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 lingApplied linguisticsFunctionism (Linguistics)Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), 1925-Languages, Modern -- Study and teachingSecond language acquisitionVygotskii, L. S. (Lev Semenovich), 1896-1934Applied linguistics.Functionism (Linguistics).Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), 1925-.Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching.Second language acquisition.Vygotskii, L. S. (Lev Semenovich), 1896-1934.418Byrnes Heidi1596247AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910820456703321Advanced Language Learning3917556UNINA