Dialogue With Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning

"'Dialogue with Bakhtin' is an excellent resource for both teachers and scholars of second and foreign language acquisition. Its strength lies in the contributors' empirical studies providing concrete supporting evidence for their claims. Paired with dialogic theory, these studies become testaments to pragmatic solutions for language problems non-native speakers face from elementary school on through to the workplace. This text underlines the continued importance of Bakhtin's theories in current academic research and succeeds in extending them to a new era, non-native language learning."
-TESL-EJ

"The need for this work is immense. The insights Bakhtin offers for language learning in both foreign and second language connections have only been dimly explored by scholars in language education to date. This text offers an illumination of the issues in much greater detail and could set the stage for a revolution in language teaching on a global context....It is revolutionary and a much-needed addition to the literature."
-Terry Osborn, University of Connecticut

"The chapters in this book reflect precisely the dialogic context that Bakhtin proposed as instrumental for teaching....This is a needed resource."
-Diana Boxer, University of Florida

"...the collection as a whole brings a stimulating new perspective to the field of SLA." -Agnes Bolonyai, Studies in Second Language Acquisition (2007), 29: 491-492)

"Dialogue with Bakhtin is the first of its kind that systematically explores how Bakhtin's theoretical insights into language and practical concerns with second- and foreign-language learning and teaching can be fruitfully connected...I anticipate that scholars in applied linguistics, language education, and language studies with an interest in second- and foreign-language learning , teacher educators, and language teachers from elementary to university levels will surely find it a valuable collection" --Lawrence Jun Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Pedagogies: An International Journal