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Routledge Advances in Second Language Studies

About the Book Series

As the field of second language acquisition (SLA) embraces a greater theoretical and methodological inclusiveness, this series invites research that draws on theories of linguistics, learning, and language use that are relatively new to the field (including but not limited to Vygotskian sociocultural theory, situated learning, language socialization, usage-based linguistics or construction grammars, and ethnomethodological conversation analysis). Books in the series will also mine new types of data enabled by technological advances in order to build theory. Routledge Advances in Second Language Studies focuses on issues that will be of interest in several academic disciplinary areas including linguistics, languages, and education.

4 Series Titles


Developing Interactional Competence at the Workplace Learning English as a Foreign Language on the Shop Floor

Developing Interactional Competence at the Workplace: Learning English as a Foreign Language on the Shop Floor

1st Edition

By Hanh thi Nguyen, Taiane Malabarba
September 06, 2024

What is it about social interaction at the workplace that spurs interactional competence development? This book explores the answers to this question by analyzing the development of interactional competence by two Vietnamese hotel staff members, one novice and one experienced, as they interact with...

The Development of L2 Interactional Competence A Multimodal Study of Complaining in French Interactions

The Development of L2 Interactional Competence: A Multimodal Study of Complaining in French Interactions

1st Edition

By Klara Skogmyr Marian
August 26, 2024

This book presents unique insights into the development of L2 interactional competence through the lens of complaining, demonstrating how a closer study of complaining as a social activity can enhance our understanding of certain aspects of language learning with implications for future L2 research...

Interaction, Language Use, and Second Language Teaching

Interaction, Language Use, and Second Language Teaching

1st Edition

By Thorsten Huth
April 29, 2022

This book presents a view of human language as social interaction, illustrating its implications for language learning and second language teaching. // The volume advocates for researchers, practitioners, and administrators to rethink and reconceptualize an understanding of language beyond that of...

Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning Speaking Blackness in Brazil

Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil

1st Edition

By Uju Anya
January 08, 2018

Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning. More broadly, this book introduces the idea of second language learning as "...

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