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A PHILOSOPHY OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2005

Renée Jourdenais
Renée Jourdenais
Affiliation:
Monterey Institute of International Studies
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A PHILOSOPHY OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. Marysia Johnson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. ix + 207. $40.00 paper.

Johnson states “the purpose of this book is twofold…to introduce the reader to Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural theory (SCT) and Mikhail Bakhtin's literary theory…. Second, … to discuss the existing cognitive bias in SLA theory and research” (p. 1). To this end, the book is divided into two parts: Part 1, which focuses on a review of traditional cognitive approaches to SLA research, and Part 2, which focuses on a more sociocultural perspective, reviewing the theories of Vygotsky and Bakhtin and culminating in Johnson's proposal for a dialogic approach to SLA research.

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BOOK REVIEWS
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 629 - 630
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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Johnson, M. (2001). The art of nonconversation: A reexamination of the validity of the oral proficiency interview. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.