The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning: A Sociocultural Perspective

By L. V. Lier. 2004

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• Scaffolding theory: High challenge, high support in Academic Language and Learning (ALL) contexts (2014, background): “A crucial aspect of scaffolding, van Lier (2004) and Lantolf and Thorne (2006) point out, is the notion of agency in learning.”
• Activity Theory and Language Teacher Agency. (2012, background): “…from Vygotsky’s work that are often grouped under the label sociocultural theory, with different claims made about the suitability of the label for different approaches (Kozulin, 1986; Lantolf & Appel, 1994; Lantolf & Thorne, 2006; Valsiner & van der Veer, 2000; van Lier, 2004; Wertsch, 1985).”
• Own-language use in language teaching and learning (2012, background): “…to new language development (e.g. LarsenFreeman 1997; Larsen-Freeman & Cameron 2008: 115–160); of SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY (e.g. Lantolf 2000, 2011); and of ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES (e.g. van Lier 2000, 2004; Kramsch 2002) as ways of understanding and explaining language and language-related phenomena.”
• CLIL classroom discourse: Research from Europe (2013, background): “…approaches that would help highlight both the participants’ emic understandings of CLIL as well as reveal the whole ecology (van Lier, 2004) of CLIL extending beyond the confines of the classroom to institutional cultures, societal factors including policy-level…”
• Action-based Teaching, Autonomy and Identity (2007, background): “From an ecological perspective, language learning-as-agency involves learning to perceive affordances (relationships of possibility) within multimodal communicative events (Greeno, 1994; Kress, 2001; Norris, 2004; van Lier, 2004).”
• Engagement in language learning: A systematic review of 20 years of research methods and definitions (2021, background): “Social engagement, too, occupies a central place in language learning (Philp & Duchesne, 2008; van Lier, 2004).”
• Curriculum Approaches in Language Teaching: Forward, Central, and Backward Design (2013, background): “Each of the innovations referred to above offers different versions of the idea of a classroom as focused on the learner or as a learning community, a notion which has been theorized in greater detail and depth by Wenger (1998), van Lier (2004, 2009) and others.”
• Chinese students’ perceptions of English learning affordances and their agency in an English-medium instruction classroom context (2019, background): “Akin to sociocultural theory of learning, the linguistic-ecological approach views language learning as a meaning-making activity mediated by various semiotic resources in the environment (van Lier 2004).”
• The comprehending teacher: scaffolding in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) (2020, background): “Interactional scaffolding is the minute-to-minute support teachers give their students in the classroom (van Lier 2004: 148).”
• Reflection and professional identity in teachers' future-oriented discourse (2008, unknown): “However, there is growing awareness among educational theorists and researchers about the importance of the future dimension in the discursive construction of self (e.g., Conway, 2001; Heath, 2000; van Lier, 2004; Wiley, 1994).”
• Written corrective feedback from sociocultural theoretical perspectives: A research agenda (2018, background): “Scaffolded feedback needs to be graduated and contingent; that is, it needs to be attuned and responsive to the evolving linguistic needs and abilities of the learner, with the ultimate aim of handing over the responsibility for correction to the learner (van Lier 2004).”
• The Heart of Heritage: Sociocultural Dimensions of Heritage Language Learning (2010, background): “…nature of language learning (de Bot, 2008; Larsen-Freeman & Cameron, 2008; Markee, 2008); the ecology of language learning (Kramsch, 2002; van Lier, 2004); the sociocultural foundation of language learning (Atkinson, 2002; Lantolf, 2000, 2006; Lantolf & Thorne, 2007); and the coconstructed…”
• Sociocultural theory and second language acquisition (2009, background): “1996 van Lier, L. (1996). Interaction in the language curriculum: Awareness, autonomy & authenticity.”