Sociocultural theory and second language learning

Introducing sociocultural theory James P. Lantolf 1 Sociocultural contributions to understanding the foreign and second language classroom Richard Donato 2 Rethinking interaction in SLA: Developmentally appropriate assistance in the zone of proximal development and the acquisition of L2 grammar Amy Snyder Ohta 3 Subjects speak out: How learners position themselves in a psycholinguistic task Regina Roebuck 4 The output hypothesis and beyond: Mediating acquisition through collaborative dialogue Merrill Swain 5 Playfulness as mediation in communicative language teaching in a Vietnamese classroom Patricia N, Sullivan 6 Social discursive constructions of self in L2 learning Claire Krarnsch 7 Second language learning as participation and the (re)construction of selves Aneta Pavlenko and James P. Lantolf 8 Side affects: The strategic development of professional satisfaction Deryn P. Verity 9 The appropriation of gestures of the abstract by L2 learners Steven G. McCafferty and Mohammed K. Ahmed 10 Second language acquisition theory and the truth(s) about relativity Steven L. Thorne 11 From imput to affordance: Social-interactive learning from an ecological perspective Leo van Lier