Discursive Practice in Language Learning and Teaching

Discursive Practice in Language Learning and Teaching by Richard Young
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has just been published by
Wiley-Blackwell. Discursive Practice is a theory of the linguistic and
socio-cultural characteristics of recurring episodes of face-to-face
interaction, episodes that have social and cultural significance to a
community of speakers. In this book, I examine the discursive practice
approach to language-in-interaction, explicating the consequences of
grounding language use and language learning in a view of social
realities as discursively constructed, of meanings as negotiated
through interaction, of the context-bound nature of discourse, and of
discourse as social action. The book also addresses how participants’
abilities in a specific discursive practice may be learned, taught,
and assessed.

The book is the sixth volume in the Language Learning Monograph Series.
The goal of the series is to advance knowledge in the language
sciences with volumes that review recent findings and current
theoretical positions, present new data and interpretations, and
sketch interdisciplinary research programs.

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