{"product_id":"concept-based-language-instruction-kyoko-masuda-9781032628622","title":"Concept-based Language Instruction: Usage-based Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory in Teaching Japanese","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume showcases how concept-based language instruction (C-BLI) can be effectively integrated into foreign language instruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eC-BLI is grounded in the relationship between theory, research, and practice, incorporating visual aids called SCOBAs (schemas for a complete orientating basis of action) designed to teach accurate scientific concepts. SCOBAs materialize L2 usage-based linguistic and cultural concepts to create tools that promote conceptual understanding and internalization. Three overview chapters lay out the book's sociocultural theoretic foundations, the role of mediation, usage-based linguistics, and the concept of subjective construal; internalization and its role in re-mediating the mind for L2 learning; and L2 pragmatics teaching and assessment. Subsequent chapters enact praxis via classroom research on C-BLI. Each study focuses on a difficult-to-acquire area of Japanese pragmatics and\/or grammar, incorporating SCOBAs that teach core concepts; instruction moves from SCOBA-mediated interactive lecture to internalization tasks involving languaging to language practice. Each chapter concludes with a section for critical reflection to inform future research and materials design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its focus on research-teaching connections via praxis elucidating the power of linking concept-based language instruction with usage-based linguistics, this book will interest students and scholars of second language acquisition, language teaching and learning, applied linguistics, Japanese, and Asian languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http: \/\/www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kyoko Masuda,Amy Snyder Ohta,Rie Tsujihara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032628626\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032628622\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Kyoko Masuda","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48623632974079,"sku":"9781032628622","price":61.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/concept-based-language-instruction-kyoko-masuda-9781032628622","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}