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In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human activities. Goethe once said that everything has been thought of before, but that the difficulty is to think of it again. The same certainly is true of the present effort. If it has any innovative ideas to offer, these lie in a novel combination of thoughts and ideas that have been around for a long, long time. The reader will encounter influences that range from Spinoza to Bakhtin and from Vygotsky to Halliday. The scope of the work is intentionally broad, covering all major themes that are part of the language learning process and the language teaching profession. These themes include language, perception and action, self, learning, critical pedagogy and research. At the same time I have attempted to look at both the macro and the micro sides of the ecological coin, and address issues from both

Who reads The Ecology And Semiotics Of Language Learning: A Sociocultural Perspective (educational Linguistics)?

Author

Leo Van Lier; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

Kluwer Academic ; Distributors for North America, Central and South America, Kluwer Academic

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781402079047

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Literary Fiction, Linguistics