International Perspectives on Elt Classroom Interaction

The last few decades have seen an increase in interest in classroom interaction, and this has coincided with the global spread of ELT. This book gathers together 11 empirical-based studies of classroom interaction carried out in different countries, including the USA, England, Kenya, Sweden, and China. Implementing methodologies including conversation analysis, corpus-based analysis and discourse analysis, and covering investigatory issues such as CLIL, multilingualism and computer-assisted language learning, each chapter provides cutting-edge accounts of classroom issues and challenges. Along with a state-of-the-art literature review, the chapters provide key insights and engagement priorities that will prove relevant to a variety of learning and teaching contexts.

Christopher Jenks is Assistant Professor of English and ESL/TESOL Coordinator at University of South Dakota, USA. He is the author and co-editor of several books, including an edited collection on second language learning that was runner-up for the 2011 British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Book Award.

Paul Seedhouse is Professor of Educational and Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. His monograph, The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom, won the Modern Languages Association of America Mildenberger Prize. He currently has a grant to build a digital kitchen which teaches users French language and cuisine simultaneously.