Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Following the Cognitive Tradition
6. 1. Three Major Scientific Research Traditions 9
7. 2. Behaviorism and Second Language Learning 18
8. 3. The Cognitive Tradition and Second Language Acquisition 30
9. 4. Information Processing Models 46
10. 5. Communicative Competence Versus Interactional Competence 85
11. Part Two: A Dialogical Approach to SLA
12. 6. Fundamental Principles of Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory 103
13. 7. Bakhtin’s Dialogized Heteroglossia 120
14. 8. Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning 129
15. 9. Building a New Model of Second Language Acquisition 170
16. Bibliography 191
17. Index 203