Learners in Japanese Language Classrooms: Overt and Covert Participation

by Reiko Yoshida

Book Overview

The verbal participation of learners in language classrooms offers a rich seam of data to the applied linguist. Overt and covert participation, when examined, can reveal both the structures of a classroom and elicit privileged information on participant's self-perceptions. It examines the verbal participation of learners in Japanese as a Foreign Language classrooms. Verbal interactions with teachers and classmates and 'private' speech acts are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441196404
• ISBN13: 9781441196408
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"