Commentary on Copp Mökkönen dissertation summary

Abstract

The summary of Alicia Copp Mökkonen’s dissertation presents a timely phenomenon that has received increasing interest in the last twenty years (Schieffelin and Ochs, 1996; Duff, 2012), namely that of language socialization in the classroom. The ethnographic perspective adopted by Copp Mökkonen shows the rise of qualitative methods in applied linguistics (Dörnyei, 2007; Duff, 2008; Paltridge and Phakiti, 2010; Talmy and Richards, 2011) and, consequently, in the analysis of classroom discourse (Rampton et al. 2002).