Pauline Gibbons is Adjunct Professor of TESOL at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

1. 'Bridging Discourses' in the ESL classroom: an introduction
Part I: Language, learning and learners: perspectives across disciplines
2. A sociocultural view of language and learning
3. Second language learning and teaching
Part II: Inside two classrooms
4. Researching the classroom
5. Teaching and learning in two classrooms
Part III: Discourse contexts for second language development
6. Teachers and learners: constructing new meanings
7. The teachers: teaching as mediation
8. The learners: affordances for learning
Glossary of systemic functional linguistic terms
Appendix: Episode summaries
References
Index