Authenticity, Language and Interaction in Second Language Contexts

Published by Multilingual Matters 2016

Authenticity, Language and Interaction in Second Language Contexts

Edited by: Rémi A. van Compernolle and Janice McGregor

In the series Second Language Acquisition

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783095315

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This book addresses issues of authenticity and interaction in second language contexts from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Contributions focus on authenticity as it relates to patterns of language and meaning, and to agency, identity and culture, and examines authenticity in both classroom and study abroad situations.

Author / Editor information

van Compernolle Rémi A. :

Rémi A. van Compernolle is Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition and French & Francophone Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. His research interests include sociocultural psychology, second language development, pedagogy and assessment, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and interactional competence. He is the author of Sociocultural Theory and L2 Instructional Pragmatics (2014, Multilingual Matters).

McGregor Janice :

Janice McGregor is Assistant Professor of German at Kansas State University, USA. Her research interests include second language learning and use, study abroad and intercultural dimensions of language learning and use.

Rémi A. van Compernolle is Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition and French & Francophone Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. His research interests include sociocultural psychology, second language development, pedagogy and assessment, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and interactional competence. He is the author of Sociocultural Theory and L2 Instructional Pragmatics (2014, Multilingual Matters).

Janice McGregor is Assistant Professor of German at Kansas State University, USA. Her research interests include second language learning and use, study abroad and intercultural dimensions of language learning and use.

Reviews

This excellent collection of studies offers new ways of understanding the multidimensionality of authenticity as it relates to language use, identity, agency and culture in a variety of second language learning contexts and from different theoretical and methodological approaches. Second language teachers and researchers of second language acquisition will find it an indispensable resource.

This excellent collection makes a significant contribution to emerging and increasingly diverse scholarship in Second Language Studies. Chapters probe and question key concepts and established assumptions in Pragmatics, Intercultural Communication and SLA. The book not only offers findings that deepen our understandings of what it means – in terms of theory and practice – to communicate in a superdiverse, multilingual world, it also effectively addresses the pressing question of how we should do Applied Linguistics in the 21st century.

In bringing together a wealth of empirical data from both informal and formal pedagogic contexts, this collection not only makes a powerful and informed contribution to the still vibrant debate over the issue of authenticity in language education, but also succeeds in challenging and, to a large extent, superseding existing understandings of the concept.

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1 Introducing Authenticity, Language and Interaction in Second Language Contexts Rémi A. van Compernolle and Janice McGregor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Evaluating L2 Pragmatic Appropriateness and Authenticity in Synchronous Computer-mediated Strategic Interaction Scenarios Rémi A. van Compernolle and Ashlie Henery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
3 Authenticity and Pedagogical Grammar: A Concept-based Approach to Teaching French Auxiliary Verbs Lawrence Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
4 Sociolinguistic Authenticity and Classroom L2 Learners: Production, Perception and Metapragmatics Rémi A. van Compernolle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
5 Learning Speech Style in Japanese Study Abroad: Learners’ Knowledge of Normative Use and Actual Use Naoko Taguchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
6 Gender, Youth and Authenticity: Peer Mandarin Socialization Among American Students in a Chinese College Dorm Wenhao Diao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7 Authenticating Language Choices: Out-of-Class Interactions in Study Abroad Julieta Fernández Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
8 Authenticating Practices in Chinese Homestay Interactions Sheng-Hsun Lee and Celeste Kinginger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
9 Metapragmatic Talk and the Interactional Accomplishment of Authenticity in Study Abroad Janice McGregor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
10 Focus on Form in the Wild Gabriele Kasper and Alfred Rue Burch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
11 Conclusions and Future Directions Rémi A. van Compernolle and Janice McGregor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242