Chapter One: What Is Discursive Practice?

Autor/in	Young, Richard F.
Titel	Chapter One: What Is Discursive Practice?
Quelle	In: Language Learning, 58 (2008), S.1-8 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00488.x
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Book Reviews; Second Language Instruction; Language Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Diskursanalyse; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Book reviewing; Book review; Rezension; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Sprachforschung
Abstract	Practice is not meant to be understood as the opposite of theory, DeKeyser wrote; instead, practice involves specific activities in an L2 that learners engage in, deliberately, with the goal of developing knowledge of and skills in the L2. In the book "Discursive Practice in Language Learning and Teaching," by "practice" the author means something very different from the way the term is defined by DeKeyser. First, "practice" as used in this book is not a term of art in L2 studies and it can be applied to all human activities. Second, although practice is goal-oriented, the goal of people who participate in practice is not necessarily L2 learning; in fact, participants' orientation to some goal in a practice may not be deliberate at all, often because the goal is not available to their conscious introspection. Third, yes, the term "practice" as used in this book involves repetition, but what participants do in a practice is not necessarily to repeat their own performance; instead, a person may perform a practice for the first time in their life but, through direct or indirect observation, the person has knowledge of the history of a practice in their community, and it is that history that is extended in practice. In this book, the author has focused on that part of what people do that involves language and, for this reason, the author has called it "discursive" practice. Studying discursive practices involves paying attention not only to the production of meanings by participants as they employ in local actions the verbal, nonverbal, and interactional resources that they command, but it also requires attention to how employment of such resources reflects and creates the processes and meanings of the community in which the local action occurs. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10