Conceptualising 'Learning' in Applied Linguistics [Hardcover]

An exciting new collection by world-leading researchers in L2 learning addressing: Why do conceptions of 'learning' vary so much in L2 learning research? Is there a conceptualisation of 'learning' to which members of different schools of SLA can subscribe?List of Illustrations List of Tables Notes on the Editors and Contributors Transcription Conventions Introduction; S.Walsh & C.Jenks Prolegomena to Second Language Learning; V.Cook Theoretical Pluralism in SLA: Is there a Way Forward?; R.Ellis Having and Doing: Learning from a Complexity Theory Perspective; D.Larsen-Freeman A Cognitive View of Language Acquisition: Processability Theory and Beyond; M.Pienemann Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language: Familiar Answers to New Questions; P.Nation& I.Elgort Conceptual Changes and Methodological Challenges: On Language and Learning From a Conversation Analytic Perspective on SLA; S.P.Doehler Learning a Second Language through Classroom Interaction; P.Seedhouse & S.Walsh Adaption in Online Voice-Based Chat Rooms: Implications for Language Learning in Applied Linguistics; C.Jenks Limitations of Social Interaction in Second Language Acquisition: Learners' Inaudible Voices and Mediation in the Zone of Proximal Development; A.S.Ohta English as an Additional Language: Learning and Participation in Mainstream Classrooms; C.Leung Participation and Instructed Language Learning; J.Appel Building a Comprehensive Second Language Acquisition Theory; F.Myles A Framework for Conceptualising Learning in Applied Linguistics; P.Seedhouse Bibiliography Index

'Certainly, these chapters invite the reader to reexamine deceptively 'straightforward' concepts like 'second', 'language' and 'learning'. In that respect, this collection offers stimulating reading for researchers, regardless of learning model.' - BAAL News

JOACHIM APPEL is currently Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching in the Department of English at the P?dagogische Hochschule LudwigslSG