Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-244) and index.

Introduction : Culture in research and second language pedagogy / Eli Hinkel -- I. Culture, interaction, and learning. Not to waste words or students : Confucian and Socratic discourse in the tertiary classroom / Suzanne Scollon -- Second culture acquisition : cognitive considerations / James P. Lantolf -- Developing nonnative speaker skills in interpreting conversational implicatures in English : explicit teaching can ease the process / Lawrence F. Bouton -- II. Culture and second language writing. Culture, context, and writing / Yamuna Kachru -- Objectivity and credibility in L1 and L2 academic writing / Eli Hinkel -- Representing culture in the ESL writing classroom / Linda Harklau -- III. Culture and second language teaching materials. A prosaics of interaction : the development of interactional competence in another language / Joan Kelly Hall -- Some issues in the teaching of pragmatic competence / Elliot L. Judd -- Teachers and students learning about requests in Hong Kong / Kenneth R. Rose -- Cultural codes for calls : the use of commercial television in teaching culture in the classroom / Ron Scollon -- Cultural mirrors : materials and methods in the EFL classroom / Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin.

"This book addresses the impact of culture when learning to interact, speak, construct meaning, and write in a second language, and within the sociocultural paradigms specific to a particular language and its speakers. For applied linguists and practicing teachers, the research presented in this volume can provide insights into factors that affect the ways in which learners construct meaning in a second language. By providing a comprehensive introduction to research from other disciplines on the interaction between language and culture, this volume offers an important contribution to the field of second language acquisition."--BOOK JACKET.