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Kramsch, Claire : LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE SOCIALIZATION: ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES (A DVANCES IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS)

Bloomsbury Academic, 2003

ISBN 9780826453723

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 'This is an outstanding collection of papers by top scholars in a range of disciplines who shed stimulating, complementary insights into the social, c ognitive and semiotic frameworks that shape both the acquisition of languag e, and the constitution of social actors through that process. The intentio nally loose ecological framing of the volume provides an arena within which a range of perspectives, all united by their opposition to a mechanistic v iew of language acquisition, can enter into dialogue with each other. This is a most stimulating collection, with a range of insightful investigations of settings as diverse as an autistic child learning to interact with othe rs on the playing field, professional gate- keeping encounters, and foreign language classrooms.' Professor Charles Goodwin, University of California at Los Angeles The book brings together well-known scholars in two relatively distinct fie lds, language acquisition and language socialization, and from a variety of orientations within applied linguistics to describe language development f rom a relational perspective. The papers in this volume are a response to three main questions: 1) What conceptual models best capture the ecological nature of language learning? 2) What research approaches are best likely to illuminate the relationship between language and social structure? 3) How is educational success defined for language acquisition and language socialization?, Very Good

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