Interaction, Language Use, and Second Language Teaching

Thorsten Huth is Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics and the German Language Program Director at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. Thorsten Huth’s scholarship connects social interaction, language learning, and second language teaching. His research addresses the emergence of interactional competencies in language learners and how such competencies can be taught and learned in the second language classroom

• PrefaceChapter 1: Introduction1.1 Research on Language and Interaction Across Disciplines1.2 Research on Interaction and Second Language Teaching1.3 On Grammatical Sentences and their Limits1.4 Action and Sequence: Composition, Position, and Context1.5 ConclusionChapter 2: Understanding interaction2.1 Basics: Action and Sequence2.2 Larger Courses of Action2.3 Why We Talk2.4 Interaction, Language, and Culture2.5 ConclusionChapter 3: Understanding language learning3.1 On Learning vs. Teaching3.2 Language Learning in Children3.3 Second Language Learning3.4 Situated Interaction as Driver and Object of Learning3.5 Language Learning Revisited3.6 ConclusionChapter 4: Understanding interaction in the classroom4.1 Researching Classroom Interaction4.2 Shaping Classroom Interaction for Maximizing Learning4.3 Interaction as Teaching and Learning Target4.4 ConclusionChapter 5: Interaction, language use, and second language teaching5.1 Main Insights5.2 Discussion