1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse

Edited By Brian Paltridge, Matthew T. Prior Copyright 2024
    398 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive and accessible examination of perspectives within the field of discourse analysis on the processes and conditions of second language learning, teaching, and use.


    Led by Brian Paltridge and Matthew T. Prior, this collection brings together leading global researchers in the field to guide readers through background theories, theoretical paradigms, methodological issues, and pedagogical implications by synthesizing current and past work, and setting a future agenda for discourse-oriented second language research.


    The book is a critical resource which will be indispensable for scholars and advanced students of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, education, and related fields.

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    List of contributors

    1 Introduction
    Brian Paltridge and Matthew T. Prior

    Part I: Approaches and perspectives

    2 Conversation analysis and second language research
    Atsushi Hasegawa

    3 Multimodal discourse analysis and second language research
    Christoph Hafner

    4 Narrative inquiry and second language research
    Doris Warriner and Anne Pomerantz

    5 Disciplinary discourses and second language literacies: A systemic functional linguistic perspective
    Nicole Siffrinn and Meg Gebhard

    6 Genre, discourse, and second language research
    Christine M. Tardy and Jeroen Gevers

    7 Grammatical complexity, discourse, and second language research
    Ge Lan

    8 Critical perspectives on discourse and second language research
    Qinghua Chen, Yanmei Zheng, and Angel M. Y. Lin

    9 A discursive psychological approach for second language acquisition research
    Matthew T. Prior

    10 Sociocultural theory and L2 discourse: From descriptive to interventionist research in second language acquisition
    Amy Snyder Ohta

    11 Sociocognitive perspectives on second language acquisition, teaching, and use
    Dwight Atkinson, Anamaría Sagre Barboza, and Elif Burhan-Horasanlı

    12 Complex dynamic systems theory, interactional discourse, and second language research
    Aki Siegel and Paul Seedhouse

    13 Corpus approaches to discourse and second language research
    Sheena Gardner

    14 Ethnographic perspectives on discourse and second language research
    Hanako Okada

    15 Sociolinguistic perspectives on discourse and second language research
    Corinne A. Seals and Honiara Salanoa

    16 Language socialization, discourse, and second language research
    Patricia A. Duff and Masaru Yamamoto

    Part II: Types of discourse

    17 Spoken discourse and second language research
    Midori Ishida

    18 Written discourse and second language research
    Elena Cotos and Kimberly Becker

    19 Disciplinary discourses and second language research
    Bethany Gray and Chris Nuttall

    20 Metadiscourse and second language research
    Victor Ho

    21 Classroom discourse and second language acquisition
    Christopher Jenks and Olcay Sert

    22 Multilingual discourse and second language research
    Tarja Nikula and Anne Pitkänen-Huhta

    Part III: Areas of use

    23 Technology-mediated discourse and second language research
    Vincenza Tudini and Anthony J. Liddicoat

    24 Intercultural pragmatics, discourse, and second language research
    Istvan Kecskes

    25 Identity, discourse, and second language research
    Elizabeth Miller

    26 Gender, sexuality, discourse, and second language acquisition research
    Susan Ehrlich and Tommaso Milani

    27 Discourse, competence, and second language acquisition research
    Daisuke Kimura

    Index

    Biography

    Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has served as editor for the journals English for Specific Purposes and TESOL Quarterly.

    Matthew T. Prior is Associate Professor of English (Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, and TESOL) at Arizona State University, USA. He has edited several volumes and journal special issues. Most recently, he served as associate editor of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, which he helped launch.

    "The volume by Brian Paltridge and Matthew T. Prior offers to the field contemporary perspectives on the theoretical and methodological power of discourse analytic approaches in furthering understandings of second language learning, teaching, and use in a wide range of contexts. Novice and seasoned researchers alike will find the chapters eminently useful."


    Joan Kelly Hall, Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA