Double Talk: Deconstructing Monolingualism in Classroom Second Language Learning

Double Talk is a monograph title in Theory and Practice in Second Language Classroom Instruction Series (edited by Judith Liskin-Gasparro & Manel Lacorte) intended for foreign language teaching professionals. Double Talk is about the language stories (from beyond the classroom context) the author has heard from multilingual people. The book purports to promote the contention that learning a foreign language is fundamental to membership of a global community in the American culture (though such a claim could have been extended to other cultures) and accordingly to enable readers as prospective teachers ‘to discover the world through the lens of another language’ (p. x). One of the focuses of Double Talk is to help the reader ‘to begin to explore what it might mean to value and respect competencies beyond grammatical accuracy’ (p. 25).