Table of contents
Introduction
Understanding peer interaction: Research synthesis and directions
Section I: Interactional patterns and learner characteristics
1. Peer interaction and learning: A focus on the silent learner
2. Peer interaction and metacognitive instruction in the EFL classroom
3. Interaction or collaboration? Group dynamics in the foreign language classroom
4. Interactional behaviours of low-proficiency learners in small group work
5. Collaborative dialogue in a two-way Spanish/English immersion classroom: Does heterogeneous grouping promote peer linguistic scaffolding?
Section II: Tasks and interactional modalities
6. Peer interaction in F2F and CMC contexts
7. Thai EFL learners’ interaction during collaborative writing tasks and its relationship to text quality
8. Engagement with the language: How examining learners’ affective and social engagement explains successful learner-generated attention to form
9. EFL task-based interaction: Does task modality impact on language-related episodes?
10. A focus on mode: Patterns of interaction in face-to-face and computer-mediated contexts
11. Small-group meta-analytic talk and Spanish L2 development
Section III: Learning settings
12. How adolescents use social discourse to open space for language learning during peer interactions
13. Peer interaction while learning to read in a new language
Epilogue
New pathways in researching interaction
Index
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