This book explores English language arts instruction from the perspective of language as "social actions" that students and teachers enact with and toward one another to create supportive, trusting relations between students and teachers, and among students as peers.

Richard Beach is Professor Emeritus of English Education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.

Faythe Beauchemin is Assistant Professor of Childhood Education, University of Arkansas, USA.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Language as Action in the ELA Classroom

Chapter 2: Languaging Actions to Enact Social Relations in Social Worlds

Chapter 3: Enacting Emotions and Embodied Actions as Languaging

Chapter 4: Relational Framing of Classroom Spaces and Time

Chapter 5: Relational Framing of Classroom Talk-in-Interaction

Chapter 6: Relational Responding to Literary Texts

Chapter 7: Relational Writing for Audiences

Chapter 8: Use of Relational Drama for Enacting Languaging Actions

Chapter 9: Relational Framing of Online Interactions

Chapter 10: Fostering Growth in Languaging Actions and through Professional Development