Understanding peer interaction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgement of reviewers vii
4. Introduction
5. Understanding peer interaction 1
6. Section I: Interactional patterns and learner characteristics
7. 1. Peer interaction and learning 33
8. 2. Peer interaction and metacognitive instruction in the EFL classroom 63
9. 3. Interaction or collaboration? Group dynamics in the foreign language classroom 91
10. 4. Interactional behaviours of low-proficiency learners in small group work 113
11. 5. Collaborative dialogue in a two-way Spanish/English immersion classroom 135
12. Section II: Tasks and interactional modalities
13. 6. Peer interaction in F2F and CMC contexts 163
14. 7. Thai EFL learners’ interaction during collaborative writing tasks and its relationship to text quality 185
15. 8. Engagement with the language 209
16. 9. EFL task-based interaction 241
17. 10. A focus on mode 267
18. 11. Small-group meta-analytic talk and Spanish L2 development 291
19. Section III: Learning settings
20. 12. How adolescents use social discourse to open space for language learning during peer interactions 319
21. 13. Peer interaction while learning to read in a new language 349
22. Epilogue
23. New pathways in researching interaction 377
24. Index 397