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Drawing on recent socio-cultural approaches to research on language learning and an extensive corpus of classroom video recording made over four years, the book documents language learning as an epiphenomenon of peer face-to-face interaction. Advanced technology for recording classroom interaction (6 cameras per classroom) allows the research to move the focus for analysis off the teacher and onto learners as they engage in dyadic interaction. The research uses methods from conversation analysis with longitudinal data to document practices for interaction between learners and how those practices change over time. Language learning is seen in learners’ change in participation in their in social actions that occur around and within teacher-assigned language learning tasks (starting the task, non-elicited story tellings within tasks, and ending tasks). Web links are provided so the reader can see the data from the classroom that is the subject of the analyses.

Language and languages --- Social interaction. --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Study and teaching --- Social aspects. --- SLA. --- classroom interaction. --- community of practice. --- conversation analysis. --- dyadic interaction. --- language learning. --- technology.

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The Meaning Makers is about children’s language and literacy development at home and at school. Based on the Bristol Study, “Language at Home and at School,” which the author directed, it follows the development of a representative sample of children from their first words to the end of their primary schooling. It contains many examples of their experience of language in use, both spoken and written, recorded in naturally occurring settings in their homes and classrooms, and shows the active role that children play in their own development as they both make sense of the world around them and master the linguistic means for communicating about it. Additionally, this second edition also sets the findings of the original study in the context of recent research in the sociocultural tradition inspired by Vygotsky’s work and includes examples of effective teaching drawn from the author’s recent collaborative research with teachers.

Children --- Language acquisition. --- Literacy. --- Language arts. --- Communication arts --- Language arts --- Communication --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Language. --- Study and teaching --- Acquisition --- Vocabulary --- Bristol Study. --- Vygotsky. --- child language development. --- child literacy development. --- classroom interaction. --- language at home and at school. --- meaning-making.

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The case studies in this book are based on transcripts of classroom interaction in nine different countries. In each chapter, the first author explains the specific context and through a theoretical and/or experiential perspective interprets the transcript data. The data are then re-interpreted by other authors in the book, illustrating the complexity and richness of interpretation and creating a dialogue among the book’s contributors. At the end of each chapter, readers are then invited with assistance to join in the conversation by providing their own interpretations of other transcript data from the same context. The book will be useful for student teachers or practicing professionals, as well as all educators interested in exploratory classroom research.

Classroom environment --- Communication and education --- English language --- Interaction analysis in education --- Language and education --- Educational linguistics --- Education --- Language and languages --- Analysis, Interaction (Education) --- Interaction process analysis in education --- Teacher-pupil interaction --- Observation (Educational method) --- Social interaction --- Teacher-student relationships --- Verbal behavior --- Germanic languages --- Education and communication --- Classroom climate --- Climate, Classroom --- Environment, Classroom --- Classroom management --- School environment --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers --- classroom interaction. --- classroom transcripts. --- communities of learning. --- cultural practices. --- interpretive process. --- language education. --- language teachers.