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Introducing sociocultural theory; 1. Sociocultural contributions tounderstanding the foreign and second language classroom; 2. Rethinkinginteraction in SLA: Developmentally appropriate assistance in the zoneof proximal development and the acquisition of L2 grammar; 3. Subjectsspeak out: How learners position themselves in a psycholinguistic task;4. The output hypothesis and beyond: Mediating acquisition throughcollaborative dialogue; 5. Playfulness as mediation in communicativelanguage teaching in a Vietnamese classroom; 6. Social discursiveconstructions of self in L2 learning; 7. Second language learning asparticipation and the (re)construction of selves; 8. Side affects: Thestrategic development of professional satisfaction; 9. Theappropriation of gestures of the abstract by L2 learners; 10. Secondlanguage acquisition theory and the truth(s) about relativity; 11. Frominput to affordance: Social-interactive learning from an ecologicalperspective; Bibliography; Index