Dialogue With Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning

Abstract

Contents: Preface. J.K. Hall, G. Vitanova, L. Marchenkova, Introduction: Dialogue With Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning. Part I: Investigations Into Contexts of Language Learning and Teaching. K. Braxley, Mastering Academic English: International Graduate Students' Use of Dialogue and Speech Genres to Meet the Writing Demands of Graduate School. A.C.D. Iddings, J. Haught, R. Devlin, Multimodal Rerepresentations of Self and Meaning for Second Language Learners in English-Dominant Classrooms. J.L. Orr, Dialogic Investigations: Cultural Artifacts in ESOL Composition Classes. A.M.Y. Lin, J.C.M. Luk, Local Creativity in the Face of Global Domination: Insights of Bakhtin for Teaching English for Dialogue Communication. H. Dufva, R. Alanen, Metalinguistic Awareness in Dialogue: Bakhtinian Considerations. E. Platt, Uh uh no Hapana: Intersubjectivity, Meaning, and the Self. G. Vitanova, Authoring the Self in a Non-Native Language: A Dialogic Approach to Agency and Subjectivity. Part II: Implications for Theory and Practice. L. Marchenkova, Language, Culture, and Self: The Bakhtin-Vygotsky Encounter. A. Kostogriz, Dialogical Imagination of (Inter)cultural Spaces: Rethinking the Semiotic Ecology of Second Language and Literacy Learning. L.A. Yotsukura, Japanese Business Telephone Conversations as Bakhtinian Speech Genre: Applications for Second Language Acquisition.