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| Title | Book Review: Expertise in Second Language Learning and Teaching |
| Body | From http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2578.html#1 Expertise in Second Language Learning and Teaching EDITOR: Keith Johnson Larry LaFond, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Thomas Mann once stated that, 'A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people,' suggesting that we cannot reliably identify experts in a field by looking at the ease or rapidity with which they ply their trade. Indeed, common assumptions held about expertise frequently prove to be mistaken, which makes the study of expertise all the more important, and intriguing. The study of expertise in language learning and teaching is as about as old as the fields of language learning and teaching themselves, as Keith Johnson's introduction to Expertise in Language Learning and Language Teaching argues. Johnson claims that any statement about language 'implies a view about what it is an expert user of the language is able to do.' Already in the 1970s, interest in what 'Good Language Learners' could do (Rubin 1975, Stern 1975) generated a great deal of interest among language teachers and researchers. Nevertheless, the study of expertise is in many ways a recent field of study that is drawing attention from diverging disciplines. Psychologists and neurologists are currently exploring the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that lead people to become experts, sociologists and anthropologists are now considering how societies perceive expertise and the role that expertise plays in social interactions, lawyers and judges are seeking to understand how to evaluate and adjudicate expertise, and computer scientists are still working on models to simulate the acquisition of expertise and expert behavior. Recent explorations into expertise in second language teaching and learning have yielded a number of important results worthy of our attention, and to share some of these results Johnson has brought together eleven authors to review how expertise relates to language learning, use, and teaching. Read the complete review at http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2578.html#1 . |
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