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The Reasons We Speak Cognition and Discourse in the Second Language Classroom
Miguel Mantero
ISBN: 0-89789-905-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-905-5
184 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2002
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £68.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: The role of cognition in a literature-based foreign language classroom is investigated and explained here. By implementing a sociocultural approach, cognition is understood as the basic building block for all human learning and language development. This study incorporates various understandings and views from reader-response theory, literary theory, and discourse analysis in order to support the conclusions reached through authentic classroom discourse analysis.

Along with clarifying current trends in second language acquisition theory, this text also offers the classroom teacher practical suggestions on how to aproach and evaluate classroom talk that is based on literature or authentic readings. The book also contains new approaches and views on the roles of reader-response theory in the language classroom that are also reflected in a contemporary literary theory that has been developed espcially with second language readers and learners in mind. The author challenges the current view of scaffolding as demonstrated in the data analysis and offers a more realistic interpretation of what may actually be taking place in the language classrooms under the guise of scaffolding. The role of opportunities to enter into discourse becomes central to the main argument and is exemplified through actual classroom transcripts.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
    Introduction
    Bringing Together Cognition and SLA
    Inside Out
    Above All Underlying Discourse
    Affording Opportunities
    Control of Language and Ideas
    Affect and Literary Response
    Cognitive Construction
    Analyzing Cognition and Discourse
    The Reasons They Speak
    Extending Our Rationale
    Discourse Analysis for Classroom Teachers
    Grammar in Discourse
    Discourse and Communicative Competence
    Afterword
    Appendix
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: MIGUEL MANTERO is Assistant Professor of Foreign Language and English as a Second Language at The University of Alabama.
LCC Class: 418
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