This important new book provides a critical overview of recent classroom-centered research and its implications for the teaching and learning of languages. Chaudron synthesizes and evaluates crucial research about the way student and teacher behaviours affect language learning and discusses research methods. Second Language Classrooms will be of vital interest to researchers, language teachers, and curriculum specialists, as well as readers with a general interest in education, linguistics, sociology, or psychology.

List of tables and figures; Series editors' preface; Preface; 1. Major issues in second language classroom research; 2. Classroom research methods; 3. Teacher talk in second language classrooms; 4. Learner behavior in second language classrooms; 5. Teacher and student interaction in second language classrooms; 6. Learning outcomes; 7. Directions for research and teaching; References; Index.