Social Interaction and Teacher Cognition

Investigates language teachers’ thoughts, beliefs and knowledge through the lens of social interaction In the past decade there has been a surge of interest in the study of language teacher cognition – what language teachers know, think and believe – and of its relationship to teachers’ classroom practices. Social Interaction and Teacher Cognition is the first book to use a discursive psychological perspective to examine teacher cognitions. Informed by conversation analysis (CA), the book offers