Chapter 11
From research to applications
Pedagogical considerations in language alternation practices
Article outline
- Introduction
- Insights from applied CA for intervention
- The educational context with a focus on the language classroom
- Insights from the diffusion of innovations literature on the management of change
- How perspectives from interventionist CA have been applied to the language classroom
- Applications of findings from CA studies on language alternation
- The foundations set in previous research
- Implications arising from the studies in this volume
- Language alternation as an essential feature of learners’ developing bilingualism
- The local and overall order
- Links between interaction and the use of languages in creating learning opportunities
- Transitions
- Conclusion
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Notes