Advanced Language Learning The Contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky

by Byrnes, Heidi

• ISBN13: 9780826443083
• ISBN10: 0826443087
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-08
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The reality of multicultural societies and globalization has increased the demand for language abilities. This book examines the acquisition of advanced levels of ability in three parts: theoretical; descriptive; and instructional. It also links systemic functional linguistics and sociocultural theory.

Author Biography

Heidi Byrnes is Professor of German at Georgetown University, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
List of Figures and Tables	p. viii
What kind of resource is language and why does it matter for advanced language learning? An introduction	p. 1
Theoretical Considerations in Advanced Instructed Learning
Educating for advanced foreign language capacities: exploring the meaning-making resources of languages systemic-functionally	p. 31
Generalized collective dialogue and advanced foreign language capacities	p. 58
Re(de) fining language proficiency in light of the concept of 'languaculture'	p. 72
Description and Pedagogy
Languaging, agency and collaboration in advanced second language proficiency	p. 95
Grammar as a resource for the construction of language logic for advanced language learning in Japanese	p. 109
The linguistic features of advanced language use: the grammar of exposition	p. 134
Grammatical metaphor: academic language development in Latino students in Spanish	p. 147
Creating textual worlds in advanced learner writing: the role of complex theme	p. 164
The dialogic construction of meaning in advanced L2 writing: Bakhtinian perspectives	p. 184
Learning advanced French through SFL: learning SFL in French	p. 204
Programmatic and Curricular Issues
Modelling a genre-based foreign language curriculum: staging advanced L2 learning	p. 227
Advanced language for intermediate learners: corpus and register analysis for curriculum specification in English for Academic Purposes	p. 246
Index	p. 265
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