Input for Instructed L2 Learners (Paperback)

Anna Nizegorodcew

ISBN 10: 1853599379 / ISBN 13: 9781853599378

Editore: Channel View Publications Ltd, Bristol, 2007

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Paperback. This book makes Relevance Theory (RT) relevant for L2 teachers and L2 teacher educators, in particular those working in foreign language teaching contexts. L2 classroom discourse data collected in seven research projects in the years 1984 - 2004 are reinterpreted in this book in the light of Relevance Theory - a theory of interpretation of the incoming messages. In this perspective the teachers' input for instructed L2 learners facilitates shifts in the learners' attention from meaning to form and vice versa. Such shifts of attention, according to Relevance Theory, change the level of expected optimal relevance of classroom communication, either focusing the students on form-oriented communication (accuracy), on meaning-oriented communication (fluency) or on meaning and form-oriented communication (fluency combined with accuracy). The latter is considered optimal for L2 learning/acquisition.Apart from the main focus on the relevance-theoretic interpretation of the teachers' input, the book presents an overview of other theoretical approaches to the question of input for instructed L2 learners: the SLA approach, the communicative L2 teaching perspective, and the L2 classroom discourse approach. This book focuses on L2 classroom discourse analysis in the light of Relevance Theory. Input for instructed L2 learners is understood as the language presented by the teacher in order to facilitate the process of L2 learning/acquisition. It will be of interest to L2 teachers, teacher educators, teacher trainees and SLA researchers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Input for Instructed L2 Learners (Paperback)
• Editore: Channel View Publications Ltd, Bristol
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1853599379
• ISBN 13: 9781853599378
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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This book makes Relevance Theory (RT) relevant for L2 teachers and L2 teacher educators, in particular those working in foreign language teaching contexts. L2 classroom discourse data collected in seven research projects in the years 1984 – 2004 are reinterpreted in this book in the light of Relevance Theory - a theory of interpretation of the incoming messages. In this perspective the teachers’ input for instructed L2 learners facilitates shifts in the learners’ attention from meaning to form and vice versa. Such shifts of attention, according to Relevance Theory, change the level of expected optimal relevance of classroom communication, either focusing the students on form-oriented communication (accuracy), on meaning-oriented communication (fluency) or on meaning and form-oriented communication (fluency combined with accuracy). The latter is considered optimal for L2 learning/acquisition. Apart from the main focus on the relevance-theoretic interpretation of the teachers’ input, the book presents an overview of other theoretical approaches to the question of input for instructed L2 learners: the SLA approach, the communicative L2 teaching perspective, and the L2 classroom discourse approach.

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Anna Nizegorodcew graduated from the English and Psychology Departments of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland. She took her PhD at the Philosophical Faculty of the same university. She is Professor in applied linguistics and Chair of the Applied Linguistics Section of the English Department at the Jagiellonian University, where she has been teaching for over 30 years. She was the founder and head of the Jagiellonian University Foreign Language Teacher Training College. She is Vice-President of the Polish Society of Foreign Language Teachers (Polskie Towarzystwo Neofilologiczne) associated with the FIPLV. She has published a number of books and articles in the areas of teaching English, SLA and second/foreign language teacher education.

Anna Nizegorodcew graduated from the English and Psychology Departments of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland. She took her PhD at the Philosophical Faculty of the same university. She is Professor in applied linguistics and Chair of the Applied Linguistics Section of the English Department at the Jagiellonian University, where she has been teaching for over 30 years. She was the founder and head of the Jagiellonian University Foreign Language Teacher Training College. She is Vice-President of the Polish Society of Foreign Language Teachers (Polskie Towarzystwo Neofilologiczne) associated with the FIPLV. She has published a number of books and articles in the areas of teaching English, SLA and second/foreign language teacher education.