Social Actions for Classroom Language Learning

John Hellermann is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Portland State University where he was a researcher for the National Labiste for Adult ESOL for four years. He previously taught in public school and community college settings in Wisconsin and Hungary. His research has investigated the prosodic organization of classroom talk, conversation analytic approaches to language learning, and immigrant identity and language learning.

• Chapter 1. Additional Language Learning in Classroom Communities of Practice Chapter 2. Conversation Analysis as a Method for Understanding Language Learning Chapter 3. Opening Dyadic Task InteractionsChapter 4. Story Tellings in Dyadic Task Interactions Chapter 5. Disengagements from Dyadic Task Interactions Chapter 6. Conclusions References Footnotes Appendix

This book offers one of the most persuasive and empirically rich arguments for considering second language acquisition in terms of changes in participation within a community of practice.