The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning: A Sociocultural Perspective

by Leo Van Lier

Book Overview

In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human activities. Goethe once said that everything has been thought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402079931
• ISBN13: 9781402079931
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"