Dwight Atkinson is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University, Indiana, specializing in second language acquisition, second language writing, and qualitative research approaches.

Introduction

Dwight Atkinson

Chapter 1: The Sociocultural Approach to Second Language Acquisition: Sociocultural Theory, Second Language Acquisition, and Artificial L2 Development

James P. Lantolf

Chapter 2: A Complexity Theory Approach to Second Language Development/ Acquisition

Diane Larsen-Freeman

Chapter 3: An Identity Approach to Second Language Acquisition

Bonny Norton & Carolyn McKinney

Chapter 4: Language Socialization Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Social, Cultural, and Linguistic Development in Additional Languages

Patricia A. Duff & Steven Talmy

Chapter 5: A Conversation-analytic Approach to Second Language Acquisition

Gabriele Kasper & Johannes Wagner

Chapter 6: A Sociocognitive Approach to Second Language Acquisition: How Mind, Body, and World Work Together in Learning Additional Languages

Dwight Atkinson

Chapter 7: Discussion - SLA after the Social Turn: Where Cognitivism and its Alternatives Stand

Lourdes Ortega