Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: From Social Tool to Cognitive Resource: Foreign Language Development as a Process of Dynamic Internalization; Chapter 2: Private Speech: A Window on Classroom Foreign Language Acquisition; Chapter 3: Peer Interactive Tasks and Assisted Performance in Classroom Language Learning; Chapter 4: A Learner-Centered Analysis of Corrective Feedback as a Resource in Foreign Language Development; Chapter 5: The Development of Interactional Style in the First-Year Classroom: Learning to Listen in Japanese
Chapter 6: From Task to Activity: Relating Task Design and Implementation to Language Use in Peer InteractionReferences; Appendix; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary
This book is the first study to examine how interactional style develops within the walls of a foreign language classroom in the first two years of language study. Results show learners to be highly sensitive to pragmatic information and that learners can
