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<div class="productDescriptionWrapper"> This book showcases how language learner agency can be understood and researched from varying perspectives by providing for the first time a collection of diverse approaches in one volume. The volume is organised into three main sections: the first section offers an introduction to the theoretical background of agency as a construct; the second section presents analyses of agency in a variety of empirical studies; and the third section focuses on the pedagogical implications of data-based studies of agency. The volume includes the work of researchers working in languages including English (ESL and EFL) Greek Spanish Swedish Italian Hindi Marathi Gujarati and Truku (an indigenous language in Taiwan) and with both child and adult language learners. This collection will serve as a key reference for researchers of language learning and teaching sociolinguistics and language and identity. <div class="emptyClear"></div> </div>

Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition

Language Planning

This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth theoretical perspective on dialogue in teaching. It explores the philosophy of dialogism as a social theory of language and explains its importance in teaching and learning. Departing from the more traditional teacher-led mode of teacher-student communication, the dialogic approach is more egalitarian and focuses on the discourse exchange between the parties. Authors explore connections between dialogic pedagogy and sociocultural learning theory, and argue that dialogic interaction between teacher and learners is vital if instruction is to lead to cognitive development. The book also presents prosody as a critical resource for understanding between teachers and students, and includes some of the first empirical studies of speech prosody in classroom discourse.