The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse

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.

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.

List of figures List of tables 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-Horasanli 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