Grammar Instruction and Second Language Development : Bridging the Socio-Cognitive Divide in Theory and in Practice

Grammar Instruction for Second Language Development offers a theoretical and practical framework for understanding how classroom instruction shapes second language development, with a particular focus on the cognitive and social factors that influence grammar teaching. Across eleven comprehensive chapters, Toth equips readers with a holistic understanding of effective classroom practices, first tracing the twentieth-century theories that informed now-outmoded grammar-centered instruction, then reviewing current cognitive and social thinking on language and linguistic development.He moves beyond a purely theoretical approach by illustrating the main featured theories-generative, construction-based, and systemic-functional theories of language, as well as skill acquisition, usage-based, processability, conversation-analytic, sociocultural, socialization, and identity theories of language learning- through examples of real-life conversations between teachers and learners.In this way, the