Advanced Language Learning
The Contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky

The reality of multicultural societies and globalization has increased the demand for language abilities. This book examines the acquisition of advanced levels of ability in three parts: theoretical; descriptive; and instructional. It also links systemic functional linguistics and sociocultural theory.

Advanced Language Learning will be of interest to academics researching systemic functional linguistics, second language acquisition and applied linguistics.

Introduction
Part I: Theoretical considerations in advanced instructed learning
1. Educating for advanced foreign language capacities - Christian M I M Matthiessen
2. Generalised collective dialogue and advanced foreign language capacities - James V. Wertsch
3. The relevance of languaculture and conceptual knowledge for advanced proficiency - James P. Lantolf
Part II: Description and Instruction
4. Language, agency and collaboration in advanced second language proficiency - Merrill Swain
5. The linguistic features of advanced language use - Mary Schleppegrell. 6. The problem of text construction and the advanced language learner - Marianna Ryshina-Pankova
7. Bilingual heritage speakers acquiring Spanish - Teresa Oteiza
8. Approaching second language writing instruction - Susan Strauss
9. Academic French - Alice Caffarel
10. Meaning-making in Italian - Roberta Piazza
11. Grammatical metaphor - M. Cecilia Colombi
Part III: Pragmatic and curricular issues
12. Meeting the challenge of comprehensive curriculum construction - Heidi Byrnes
13. Genre as a curricular framework for collegiate L2 learning - Cori Crane.
14. Developing a heritage language speaker track to support L2 acquisition - Sylvia Pessoa
15. Advanced learning for intermediate learners - N A J Moore.