Perspectives on Individual Characteristics and Foreign Language Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives on Individual Characteristics and Foreign Language Education write by Wai Meng Chan. This book was released on 2012-10-01. Perspectives on Individual Characteristics and Foreign Language Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Learner characteristics have been at the center of second language acquisition and foreign language education research in response to the puzzling questions: Why are there often large differences in second language (L2) learning achievement and why do many learners, though proficient first language speakers, not succeed in learning a L2? The papers in this book explore and challenge the three key factors in individual difference research: language aptitude, language learning strategies and motivation.
The Psychology of the Language Learner
The Psychology of the Language Learner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Psychology of the Language Learner write by Zoltán Dörnyei. This book was released on 2014-04-04. The Psychology of the Language Learner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The scope of individual learner differences is broad, yet there is no current, comprehensive, and unified volume that provides an overview of the considerable amount of research conducted on various language learner differences, until now.
New Perspectives on Individual Differences in Language Learning and Teaching
New Perspectives on Individual Differences in Language Learning and Teaching - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Perspectives on Individual Differences in Language Learning and Teaching write by Mirosław Pawlak. This book was released on 2012-04-07. New Perspectives on Individual Differences in Language Learning and Teaching available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume constitutes an attempt to capture the intricate relationship between individual learner differences and other variables which are of interest to theorists, researchers and practitioners representing such diverse branches of applied linguistics as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics or language teaching methodology. It brings together contributions by Polish and international authors, including leading experts in the field, touching upon changing perspectives on individual variation, cognitive, affective and social variables, learning deficits as well as their impact on learning and teaching. It offers a multifaceted perspective on these problems and shows how theory and research can be translated into classroom practice.
Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning
Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning write by Peter Robinson. This book was released on 2002-09-27. Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Second language learners differ in how successfully they adapt to, and profit from, instruction. This book aims to show that adaptation to L2 instruction, and subsequent L2 learning, is a result of the interaction between learner characteristics and learning contexts. Describing and explaining these interactions is fundamentally important to theories of instructed SLA, and for effective L2 pedagogy. This collection is the first to explore this important issue in contemporary task-based, immersion, and communicative pedagogic settings. In the first section, leading experts in individual differences research describe recent advances in theories of intelligence, L2 aptitude, motivation, anxiety and emotion, and the relationship of native language abilities to L2 learning. In the second section, these theoretical insights are applied to empirical studies of individual differences-treatment interactions in classroom learning, experimental studies of the effects of focus on form and incidental learning, and studies of naturalistic versus instructed SLA.
Culture and Foreign Language Education
Culture and Foreign Language Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Foreign Language Education write by Wai Meng Chan. This book was released on 2015-07-31. Culture and Foreign Language Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The teaching of culture and interculturality is today viewed as an integral part of foreign language education. This book presents insights from recent research on the role of culture in second/foreign and heritage language education. It contains 14 chapters including an introductory chapter that discusses diachronically the evolving notion of culture and how the sociocultural view of culture as a complex and dynamic concept informs language teaching and language learning research. The chapters following the introduction are organised in four parts focusing on: 1) the teacher's role in integrated language and culture learning; 2) the interrelationship between culture, identity, and language learning and use; 3) the effect of culture on learner characteristics which impact language learning processes and outcomes; and 4) curriculum development aimed at fostering language and culture learning. The chapters in Parts 1 to 3 present contributions from current research - either in the form of the authors' original studies or comprehensive reviews of relevant essential research - which bears important implications for curricular practice in foreign language and language teacher education. This close link between research, theory and practice is also maintained in the two chapters in Part 4, which present developmental projects based on well-grounded theoretical frameworks.
