This volume showcases how concept-based language instruction (C-BLI) can be effectively integrated into foreign language instruction.

Kyoko Masuda is Professor of Japanese Applied Linguistics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her current research areas include Japanese discourse studies, applied cognitive linguistics, sociocultural theory, second language acquisition, and role language/mimetic words used in Manga.

Amy Snyder Ohta is Professor of Japanese Applied Linguistics at the University of Washington. Her research uses sociocultural theory to consider the learning and teaching of Japanese as a foreign language, interlanguage pragmatics, classroom research, interview research, and autoethnography.

Rie Tsujihara is Affiliate Assistant Professor of Japanese Applied Linguistics at the University of Washington, Lecturer of Japanese at the University of Washington, and Lecturer of Japanese at Cascadia College. Her research focuses on the learning and teaching of Japanese as a foreign language, both pragmatics and grammar, with a special interest in sociocultural theory.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

1. Concept-based Language Instruction: Combining Sociocultural Theory and Usage-based Linguistics to Transform Language Pedagogy
2. Promoting Internalization in Concept-based Language Instruction

Part II

1. Teaching Pragmatics with Concept-based Language Instruction
2. Japanese Style-Shifting through Concepts
3. Teaching Interactional Particles as an Invaluable Linguistic Resource in Japanese Conversation
4. Teaching Thanking in Japanese: A Conceptual Approach to Speech Acts

Part III

1. Teaching Motion Verbs: Perspective as Foundational to Japanese Grammar
2. Japanese Benefactives and the Speaker's Perspective
3. Teaching Japanese Tense and Aspect Conceptually

10. Teaching the Japanese Causative by Incorporating Insights from Corpus Studies

11. The Passive and the Speaker's Perspective in Japanese: Focusing on "Undergoing"

12. Moving Forward with Concept-based Language Instruction

Index