Language acquisition and language socialization : ecological perspectives

Introduction: how can we tell the dancer from the dance?, Claire Kramsch. Part I Language development as spatial and temporal positioning: language acquisition and language use from a chaos/complexity perspective, Diane Larsen-Freeman modelling the acquisition of speech in a multilingual society - an ecological approach, Jonathan Leather language development and identity - multiple timescales in the social ecology of learning, Jay L. Lemke. Part II Language development as mediated, social semiotic activity: becoming a speaker of culture, Elinor Ochs cross-cultural learning and other catastrophes, Ron Scollon an ecological-semiotic perspective on language and linguistics, Leo van Lier. Part III Discourse…