The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning : a Sociocultural Perspective / edited by Leo Lier.

The ecological perspective on language and language education has in recent years become a major focus of interest in the fields of second language teaching and learning, and linguistics and education in general. This is the first book-length attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of an ecology...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Lier, Leo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2004.
Series:Educational linguistics ; 3.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Why ecology
  • Theories of language
  • Semiotics: The making of meaning
  • Emergence and affordance
  • The self and language learning
  • Language learning pathways
  • Critical ecological linguistics
  • Ecological research
  • Epilogue for language teachers
  • Index.