Ecology of Language Acquisition /
While most research on language acquisition continues to consider the individual primarily in closed-system terms, Ecology of Language Acquisition emphasizes the emergence of linguistic development through children's and learners' interactions with their environment - spatial, social, cult...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2003.
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| Series: | Educational linguistics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Notes on the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Towards an ecology of language acquisition
- 2. Critical realism, ecological psychology, and imagined communities: foundations for a naturalist theory of language acquisition
- 3. A tale of two computer classrooms: the ecology of project-based learning
- 4. From joint attention to language acquisition: how infants learn to control others' behavior
- 5. Beyond cognitive determination: interactionism in the acquisition of spatial semantics
- 6. Language socialization in children's religious education: the discursive and affective construction of identity
- 7. An integrational linguistic view of coming into language: reflexivity and metonymy
- 8. The ecology of an SLA community in a computer-mediated environment
- 9. Robot babies: what can they teach us about language acquisition?- 10. Borrowing words: appropriations in child second language discourse
- 11. Language acquisition behind the scenes: collusion and play in educational settings
- Index.