Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Author Biographies 2004 -- Part 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Part 2 Sociocultural Perspectives on Language and Learning -- Chapter 1 Learning Language as a Matter of Learning Social Languages within Discourses -- Part 3 Sociocultural Approaches to Language Teacher Education -- Chapter 2 Re-sourcing Resources: Pedagogy, History and Loss in a Johannesburg Classroom -- Chapter 3 Transforming the Discourses of Teaching and Learning: Rippling Waters and Shifting Sands -- Chapter 4 Social Apprenticeships Through Mediated Learning in Language Teacher Education -- Part 4 The Uptake of Sociocultural Approaches in Language Education -- Chapter 5 Social Languages and Schooling: The Uptake of Sociocultural Perspectives in School -- Chapter 6 Tinker, Tailor, Teacher, Text: Using a Multiliteracies Approach to Remediate Reading -- Part 5 Implications of Sociocultural Perspectives for Language Teacher Education -- Chapter 7 Language, Sociocultural Theory, and L2 Teacher Education: Examining the Technology of Subject Matter and the Architecture of Instruction -- Index.