Hellermann2006

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Hellermann2006
BibType ARTICLE
Key Hellermann2006
Author(s) John Hellermann
Title Classroom interactive practices for developing L2 literacy: a microethnographic study of two beginning adult learners of English
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Tag(s) EMCA, literacy, English learning, interactional competence
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Year 2006
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Journal Applied Linguistics
Volume 27
Number 3
Pages 377–404
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DOI 10.1093/applin/ami052
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Abstract

Using methods from conversation analysis, this microethnographic longitudinal case study traces the development of interactional competence which results from adult learners’ socialization into literacy events in a modified Sustained Silent Reading (mSSR) program. The investigation focuses on two learners who participated in the mSSR program in an ESOL classroom at an adult community college for three terms. The findings show how the two learners (with different first language educational backgrounds) follow different paths in acquiring interactional competence, moving from peripheral to more engaged participation in classroom literacy events through their socialization into three of these events: book selection, opening post-reading re-tellings, and completing and filing reading logs.

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