The Affective Dimension in Second Language Acquisition

2013-05-03
The Affective Dimension in Second Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Danuta Gabryś-Barker
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847699693
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 313

This volume presents a series of empirical studies which focus on affectivity in relation to both individual learner differences, and language learning experiences, motivation and attitudes. The volume also elaborates on affectivity in various contexts of FL use and in different educational settings such as CLIL or e-learning.

The Affective Dimension in Second Language Acquisition

2013-05-03
The Affective Dimension in Second Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Danuta Gabryś-Barker
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847699707
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 230

Affectivity is at the core of everything we do in life. Thus, its development is also central to learning/acquisition and is important for educational contexts. The studies presented in this volume consider the different contexts of language learning and examine different types of participants in this process. Most of them look at a formal instruction context, while others look beyond the classroom and even report on the author's own affectivity and its involvement in learning experiences. Affectivity is discussed here in relation to learners but also to teachers in their own professional contexts of teaching foreign languages. In the majority of cases, affectivity is explored in the case of bilinguals, but there are also articles which focus on multilingual language users and their affectivity as an evolving factor.

The Big Five in SLA

2020-11-03
The Big Five in SLA

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  • Author: Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 303059324X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

This book also focuses on analyzing each trait from the point of view of its higher and lower order structure, as well as from the affective, cognitive, behavioral, social and academic perspectives, apart from outlining the field of personality psychology. Personality traits are important in daily interaction, and are a significant factor in achieving educational goals also for second and foreign language (L2) learners. Consequently, studying the role of personality in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) appears to be of primary importance, especially because there has been little research on this subject. Moreover, general results pertaining to the role of personality in L2 are inconclusive. This book’s primary objective is to present a concise and updated picture of personality on the basis of the Big Five model, which is accessible for non-psychologists. The middle part of the book focuses on discussing potential merits and drawbacks of each trait for the purpose of the process of SLA, both from the formal and informal, theoretical and empirical points of view. The next part includes a description of an empirical study, whose main aim is to sensitize the reader to direct and indirect influences that personality may exert on L2 learning. The book closes with a concluding chapter aiming at clarifying directions for further empirical study of personality as well as issues in research methodology.

The Psychology of the Language Learner

2014-04-04
The Psychology of the Language Learner

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  • Author: Zoltán Dörnyei
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135704783
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 283

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.

Language Learning Strategies in Independent Settings

2008
Language Learning Strategies in Independent Settings

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  • Author: Stella Hurd
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847690971
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 348

In recent years traditional, classroom-based language tuition has been increasingly overshadowed by innovative approaches, such as distance learning, supported independent learning and blended learning (with an online component). This timely volume examines the use of language learning strategies in a range of independent settings, and addresses key issues for independent learners such as autonomy, strategic awareness and self-regulation.

Understanding Second Language Acquisition

2014-02-04
Understanding Second Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Lourdes Ortega
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 144411705X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 321

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theories, its developed research paradigms, and its pending questions for the future. The book zooms in and out of universal, individual, and social forces, in each case evaluating the research findings that have been generated across diverse naturalistic and formal contexts for second language acquisition. It assumes no background in SLA and provides helpful chapter-by-chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading. Ideal as a textbook for students of applied linguistics, foreign language education, TESOL, and education, it is also recommended for students of linguistics, developmental psycholinguistics, psychology, and cognitive science. Supporting resources for tutors are available free at www.routledge.com/ortega.

Third Age Learners of Foreign Languages

2017-12-18
Third Age Learners of Foreign Languages

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  • Author: Danuta Gabryś-Barker
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783099429
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 217

People are increasingly reaching the so-called third age, a period when seniors search for a renewed purpose to life and spend time undertaking activities that they consider motivating, such as the learning of a foreign language. The study of language learning among aging populations has become a fast-growing area of research and this book is one of the first attempts to bring together what we know about this age group and their profiles as foreign language learners. Contributors to the volume discuss the issue from various psychological, neurological and pedagogical perspectives. Each of the chapters provides an updated theoretical background and offers some initial conclusions on the basis of original empirical studies carried out. Chapters challenge certain familiar preconceptions and assumptions about senior learners, offer the reader ideas for future research in this under-studied area and provide some practical advice for applying the proposals and solutions offered in real foreign language third-age classrooms.

Complexity Perspectives on Researching Language Learner and Teacher Psychology

2020-10-23
Complexity Perspectives on Researching Language Learner and Teacher Psychology

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  • Author: Richard J. Sampson
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 178892357X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 422

This edited volume brings together both established and emerging researcher voices from around the world to illustrate how complexity perspectives might contribute to new ways of researching and understanding the psychology of language learners and teachers in situated educational contexts. Chapter authors discuss their own perspectives on researching within a complexity paradigm, exemplified by concrete and original examples from their research histories. Moreover, chapters explore research approaches to a variety of learner and teacher psychological foci of interest in SLA. Examples include: anxiety, classroom group dynamics and group-level motivation, cognition and metacognition, emotions and emotion regulation strategies, learner reticence and silence, motivation, self-concept and willingness to communicate.

Multilingualism and History

2023-03-31
Multilingualism and History

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  • Author: Aneta Pavlenko
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1009236245
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 311

We often hear that our world 'is more multilingual than ever before', but is it true? This book shatters that cliché. It is the first volume to shine light on the millennia-long history of multilingualism as a social, institutional and demographic phenomenon. Its fifteen chapters, written in clear, accessible language by prominent historians, classicists, and sociolinguists, span the period from the third century BC to the present day, and range from ancient Rome and Egypt to medieval London and Jerusalem, from Russian, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires to modern Norway, Ukraine, and Spain. Going against the grain of traditional language histories, these thought-provoking case studies challenge stereotypical beliefs, foreground historic normativity of institutional multilingualism and language mixing, examine the transformation of polyglot societies into monolingual ones, and bring out the cognitive and affective dissonance in present-day orientations to multilingualism, where 'celebrations of linguistic diversity' coexist uneasily with creation of 'language police'.

Emotion in Multilingual Interaction

2016-10-03
Emotion in Multilingual Interaction

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  • Author: Matthew T. Prior
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027266751
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies that investigates how multilingual speakers construct emotions in their talk as a joint discursive practice. The contributions draw on the well established, converging traditions of conversation analysis, discursive psychology, and membership categorization analysis together with recent work on interactional storytelling, stylization, and multimodal analysis. By adopting a discursive approach to emotion in multilingual talk, the volume breaks with the dominant view of emotions as cognitive and intra-psychological phenomena and their study through self-report. Through detailed analyses of original recorded data, the chapters examine how participants produce emotion-implicative actions, identities, stances, and morality through their interactional work in ordinary face-to-face conversation, computer-mediated interaction, institutional talk in medical, educational, and broadcast media settings, and in research interviews. The volume addresses itself to students and researchers interested in language and emotion, multilingual speakers and settings, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.