Focus on Oral Interaction explores the role of oral interaction for second language learning from cognitive, social, pedagogical, and linguistic perspectives. It emphasizes the important role played by oral language in classrooms, with a focus on research relevant to English language learners aged 6-16.
Featuring real classroom data and summaries of research studies from a variety of classroom contexts, this book looks at the contribution of teacher-student interaction and peer-peer interaction in classrooms, among school-age English language learners. Key areas covered include formulaic and creative language use, the different ways of scaffolding learning, the use of corrective feedback, the relationship between oral interaction and print literacy, as well as differences that learner aptitude and motivation make to language learning. Additional activities are provided to help teachers relate the content to their own teaching context.
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction
1. Oral Internation
2. Oral Interaction : Purposes and Possibilities for Learning
3. Oral Interaction in the Primary Classroom Context : Research and Implications for Pedagogy
4. Oral Interaction in the High School Classroom Context : Research and Implications for Pedagogy
5. Oral interaction : What We Know Now
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Glossary
- Transcription Conventions
- References
- Index