TY - BOOK ID - 78141538 TI - Advanced Language Learning : The Contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky PY - 2008 SN - 1282873520 9786612873522 1441122257 9781441122254 9780826443083 0826443087 9780826490711 0826490719 9781474212113 1474212115 9781282873520 PB - London : Continuum International Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Applied linguistics. KW - Functionism (Linguistics). KW - Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), 1925-. KW - Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching. KW - Second language acquisition. KW - Vygotskii, L. S. (Lev Semenovich), 1896-1934. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78141538 AB - 'The editor and authors in this volume make a convincing case for focusing on advanced foreign language instruction. Importantly, they invite consideration of this focus as an opportunity to re-examine conventional definitions of the target of instruction. In so doing, readers also learn more about the theories highlighted in this volume, and their capacity to enhance our understanding of advancedness and its development within an educational context. This book thus mediates between linguistic and language learning theories and educational practice, modelling the very best of what applied ling ER -