Rémi A. van Compernolle
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rémi A. van Compernolle is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2589-109X | E‑ISSN 2589‑1103
Title
Interaction and Second Language Development: A Vygotskian perspective
Rémi A. van Compernolle
This volume addresses the role of communicative interaction in driving various dimensions of second language development from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. Emphasizing the dialectical relationship between the external-social world and individual mental functioning, the… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 44] 2015. xi, 215 pp.
2025 English as an instructional resource for optimizing L2 Chinese use in the classroom: An applied CA perspective Applied Pragmatics 7:2, pp. 168–191 | Article
Adopting an applied conversation analysis (CA) perspective, this study explores the sequential organization of English used by a Chinese as a foreign language instructor, the actions projected and achieved through the instructor’s use of English, and how the instructor’s use of English… read more
2021 Topic management and opportunities for learning in an advanced Francophone Cultures class Applied Pragmatics 3:1, pp. 1–25 | Article
Drawing on conversation analysis and its extension to classroom discourse studies, this article examines the ways in which topic is managed and opportunities for learning are created in an advanced US university-level Francophone Cultures class. In the analysis, topic is treated as an ongoing… read more
2018 Chapter 2. Speaking, interactional competencies, and mediated action Speaking in a Second Language, Alonso, Rosa Alonso (ed.), pp. 27–48 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the development of interactional competence from a Vygotskian perspective. It is argued that interactional competence is a situated activity in which speakers draw on their historically rooted understanding of contextually appropriate communicative resources in order to… read more
2012 Chapter 8. Variationist sociolinguistics, L2 sociopragmatic competence, and corpus analysis of classroom-based synchronous computer-mediated discourse Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological issues, Félix-Brasdefer, J. César and Dale Koike (eds.), pp. 239–270 | Article
This chapter explores a number of issues related to analyzing second language (L2) sociopragmatic variation in a corpus of classroom-based synchronous computer-mediated discourse (SCMD) from a variationist sociolinguistic perspective. Building on our previous work in this area, we examine variation… read more
2009 Teaching language variation in French through authentic chat discourse Electronic Discourse in Language Learning and Language Teaching, Abraham, Lee B. and Lawrence Williams (eds.), pp. 111–126 | Article
In this chapter, we provide a glimpse into the nature of moderated and non-moderated French-language chat in public, non-educational contexts, and we enumerate and explain a number of pedagogical applications aimed at helping learners of French participate in and have greater access to this type of… read more
2009 Interactional and discursive features of English-language weblogs for language learning and teaching Electronic Discourse in Language Learning and Language Teaching, Abraham, Lee B. and Lawrence Williams (eds.), pp. 193–212 | Article
This chapter provides an overview of the nature of authentic (i.e., non-educational) weblogs (blogs) and offers a number a recommendations for using blogs in the English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) curriculum to promote second language literacy. Our discussion centers around blog-writing… read more