Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780415895729
Subjects: Second language acquisition
Description: Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning synthesizes the existing body of research on the role of peer interaction in second language learning in one comprehensive volume. In spite of the many hours that language learners spend interacting with peers in the classroom, there is a tendency to evaluate the usefulness of this time by comparison to whole class interaction with the teacher. Yet teachers are teachers and peers are peers - as partners in interaction, they are likely to offer very different kinds of learning opportunities. This book encourages researchers and instructors alike to take a new look at the potential of peer interaction to foster second language development.