Dialogue with Bakhtin on second and foreign language learning : new perspectives / edited by Joan Kelly Hall, Gergana Vitanova, Ludmila Marchenkova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Joan Kelly.

Contributor:

Vitanova, Gergana.

Marchenkova, Ludmila.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Bakhtin, M. M.

Physical Description:

xii, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 2005.

Summary:

This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching. Situated within a strong conceptual framework and

Contents:

1 Introduction: Dialogue With Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning / Joan Kelly Hall, Gergana Vitanova, Ludmila Marchenkova 1

Part I Investigations into Contexts of Language Learning and Teaching

2 Mastering Academic English: International Graduate Students' Use of Dialogue and Speech Genres to Meet the Writing Demands of Graduate School / Karen Braxley 11

3 Multimodal Rerepresentations of Self and Meaning for Second Language Learners in English-Dominant Classrooms / Ana Christina DaSilva Iddings, John Haught, Ruth Devlin 33

4 Dialogic Investigations: Cultural Artifacts in ESOL Composition Classes / Jeffery Lee Orr 55

5 Local Creativity in the Face of Global Domination: Insights of Bakhtin for Teaching English for Dialogic Communication / Angel M. Y. Lin, Jasmine C. M. Luk 77

6 Metalinguistic Awareness in Dialogue: Bakhtinian Considerations / Hannele Dufva, Riikka Alanen 99

7 "Uh Uh No Hapana": Intersubjectivity, Meaning, and the Self / Elizabeth Platt 119

8 Authoring the Self in a Non-Native Language: A Dialogic Approach to Agency and Subjectivy / Gergana Vitanova 149

Part II Implications for Theory and Practice

9 Language, Culture, and Self: The Bakhtin-Vygotsky Encounter / Ludmila Marchenkova 171

10 Dialogical Imagination of (Inter)cultural Spaces: Rethinking the Semiotic Ecology of Second Language and Literacy Learning / Alex Kostogriz 189

11 Japanese Business Telephone Conversations as Bakhtinian Speech Genre: Applications for Second Language Acquisition / Lindsay Amthor Yotsukura 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

080585021X

OCLC:

54775147