The intellectual roots of sociocultural theories of human development extend back to 18th
and 19th century German philosophy (particularly Hegel andSpinoza), the sociological and …

The sociocultural theory (SCT) approach to SLA (henceforth, SCT-L2) is grounded in the
psychological theory of human consciousness proposed by LS Vygotsky. Although not …

In this article we propose the pedagogical model bridging activities to address advanced
foreign language proficiency in the context of existing and emerging internet communication …

Activities describes Corpus Linguistics (CL) and its many relevant, creative, and engaging
applications to language teaching and learning for teachers and practitioners in TESOL and …

In this article, we extend Firth and Wagner's (1997) call for an ontological perspective that
(re) unites the individual and the social by proposing some fundamental implications that …

Learning a second or foreign language is commonplace in today's world. In fact, recent
estimates (Grosjean, 2010) suggest that more than half of the world's population knows …

This chapter has described the intellectual foundation of sociocultural/cultural-historical
perspectives on human development and their relevance to applied linguistics research and …

HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON NEW LITERACIES Page 1 415 CHAPTER 15 Mediating
Technologies and Second Language Learning STEVEN L. THORNE The Pennsylvania …

In the last decade, the availability of corpora and the technological advancements of corpus
tools have increased dramatically. Applied linguists have greater access to data from around …

The concept of action research has developed rapidly in the field of applied linguistics and
second language teaching from the end of the 1980s, influenced in no small part by the …