Language acquisition and language socialization : ecological perspectives

Abstract

Introduction: how can we tell the dancer from the dance?, Claire Kramsch. Part I Language development as spatial and temporal positioning: language acquisition and language use from a chaos/complexity perspective, Diane Larsen-Freeman modelling the acquisition of speech in a multilingual society - an ecological approach, Jonathan Leather language development and identity - multiple timescales in the social ecology of learning, Jay L. Lemke. Part II Language development as mediated, social semiotic activity: becoming a speaker of culture, Elinor Ochs cross-cultural learning and other catastrophes, Ron Scollon an ecological-semiotic perspective on language and linguistics, Leo van Lier. Part III Discourse alignments and trajectories in institutional settings: I'd rather switch than fight - an activity theoretic study of power, success and failure in a foreign language classroom, James P. Lantolf and Patricia B. Genung discoursal (mis)alignments in professional gatekeeping encounters, Srikant Sarangi and Celia Roberts. Part IV Interaction rituals in language acquisition and use: ritual, face and play in a first English lesson - bootstrapping a classroom culture, Jet van Dam negotiating the paradoxes of spontaneous talk in advanced L2 classes, Anne Bannink.

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