Input for Instructed L2 Learners : : The Relevance of Relevance / / Anna Niżegorodcew.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Niżegorodcew, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

This book makes Relevance Theory (RT) relevant for L2 teachers and L2 teacher educators, in particular those working in foreign language teaching contexts. L2 classroom discourse data collected in seven research projects in the years 1984 – 2004 are reinterpreted in this book in the light of Relevance Theory - a theory of interpretation of the incoming messages. In this perspective the teachers’ input for instructed L2 learners facilitates shifts in the learners’ attention from meaning to form and vice versa. Such shifts of attention, according to Relevance Theory, change the level of expected optimal relevance of classroom communication, either focusing the students on form-oriented communication (accuracy), on meaning-oriented communication (fluency) or on meaning and form-oriented communication (fluency combined with accuracy). The latter is considered optimal for L2 learning/acquisition. Apart from the main focus on the relevance-theoretic interpretation of the teachers’ input, the book presents an overview of other theoretical approaches to the question of input for instructed L2 learners: the SLA approach, the communicative L2 teaching perspective, and the L2 classroom discourse approach.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Role of L2 Classroom Input in the Light of Second Language Acquisition Models and Relevance Theory -- Chapter 2. L2 Teaching Perspective on the Role of Instructional Input -- Chapter 3. L2 Classroom Discourse Perspective on the Role of Instructional Input -- Chapter 4. Evidence from L2 Classroom Discourse Research Projects -- Chapter 5. Classroom Discourse Data Interpreted in the Light of RT: Levels of Expected Optimal Relevance of L2 Classroom Input -- Chapter 6. L2 Teaching Implications -- References -- Index