Exploring the Interactional Instinct

Edited by Anna Dina L. Joaquin and John H. Schumann

Foundations of Human Interaction

Expands upon a radical view of language acquisition as the result of emotionally based interaction with caregivers
Examines interaction in second language acquisition, in different cultures, in different species, in observation without participation, in literacy, in schizophrenia, in relation to human physiological responses, and in relation to correlated perspectives on interaction

Exploring the Interactional Instinct

Edited by Anna Dina L. Joaquin and John H. Schumann

Foundations of Human Interaction

Description

The Interactional Instinct (Oxford University Press, 2009) argued that the ubiquitous acquisition of language by all normal children was the result of a biologically-based drive for infants and children to attach, bond, and affiliate with conspecifics in an attempt to become like them. This instinct leads children to seek out verbal interaction with caregivers and allows them to become competent language speakers by about age 8. In Exploring the Interactional Instinct, scholars in applied linguistics expand the theory by examining interaction in second language acquisition; in different cultures and species; in observation without participation; in literacy; in schizophrenia; in relation to human physiological responses; and in relation to correlated perspectives on interaction. This book, like its predecessor, offers a radical view of language acquisition: language is not acquired as a result of a Language Acquisition Device in the brain, but is rather a cultural artifact universally acquired by all normal children.

Exploring the Interactional Instinct

Edited by Anna Dina L. Joaquin and John H. Schumann

Foundations of Human Interaction

Introduction
A Unified Perspective of First and Second Language Acquisition
John H. Schumann
Infant Attachment and Language Exposure Across Cultures
Gail Fox Adams
Learning while Eavesdropping on the Social World
Anna Dina L. Joaquin
Resonance in Dialogic Interaction
Anna Dina L. Joaquin
Biological and Psychological Bases for Social Engagement Behaviors in Second Language Acquisition
Bahiyyih Hardacre
Theories of the Interactional Instinct and the Pedagogical Stance: An Integrated View of Cultural Knowledge, Interaction, and Language
Jessica J. Roehrig
Affiliative Behaviors that Increase Language-Learning Opportunities in Infant and Adult Classrooms: An Integrated Perspective
Laura Amador and Gail Fox Adams
Interactional Instinct and its Connection to Instruction in Human Life
Emre Guvendir
Leveraging the Interactional Instinct for Literacy
Andrea W. Mates
An Impaired Interactional Instinct: Schizophrenia as a Case Study
Lisa Mikesell
The Interactional Instinct and Related Perspectives
John H. Schumann, Emre Guvendir, Anna Dina L. Joaquin

Exploring the Interactional Instinct

Edited by Anna Dina L. Joaquin and John H. Schumann

Foundations of Human Interaction

Author Information

Edited by Anna Dina L. Joaquin, Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge, and John H. Schumann, Professor of Applied Linguistics, UCLA

Anna Dina L. Joaquin is Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics at California State University, Northridge. Her research interests include the neurobiological underpinnings of motivation and socialization of first and second language acquisition. John H. Schumann is a professor of applied linguistics and former chair of the Department of Applied Linguistics at UCLA. His research includes the study of language acquisition, language evolution, the neurobiology of language, and the neurobiology of learning.