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- Author: Ian Tudor
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN: 0521772036
- Category : Classroom environment
- Languages : en
- Pages : 234
Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning
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- Author: Zoltán Dörnyei
- Publisher: Multilingual Matters
- ISBN: 1783092564
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 449
This landmark volume offers a collection of conceptual papers and data-based research studies that investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The chapters seek to answer the question of how we can understand motivation if we perceive it as a continuously changing and evolving entity rather than a fixed learner trait.
Usage-Based Dynamics in Second Language Development
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- Author: Wander Lowie
- Publisher: Multilingual Matters
- ISBN: 1788925262
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 226
This book honours the contribution of Marjolijn Verspoor to the development and implementation of dynamic usage-based (DUB) approaches in second language (L2) research and pedagogy. With chapters written by renowned experts in the field, the book addresses the dynamics of language, language learning and language teaching from a usage-based perspective. The book contains both theory and empirical work: the initial theoretical chapters present cutting-edge thinking in relation to both the scope of DUB theory and its applications, providing conceptual perspectives from cognitive grammar and linguistics, thinking-for-speaking (TFS), and Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) approaches, united by their shared underpinnings of language as a dynamic system of conventionalized routines. The second half of the volume showcases state-of-the-art methodologies to study dynamic trajectories of language learning, empirical investigations into the above-mentioned theoretical concepts, and innovative classroom implementations of DUB language pedagogy.
Opening Dialogue
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- Author: Martin Nystrand
- Publisher:
- ISBN: 9780807735732
- Category : Education
- Languages : en
- Pages : 141
Opening Dialogue examines the effects of classroom discourse on learning in 8th- and 9th-grade literature classes, with broad implications for all grade levels and subjects. Dozens of schools and thousands of students participated in this study, the largest in the field. Contents: Dialogic Instruction: When Recitation Becomes Conversation * The Big Picture: Language and Learning in Hundreds of English Lessons * A Closer Look at Authentic Interaction: Profiles of Student, Teacher Talk in Two Classrooms * What's a Teacher to Do?
The Dynamics of Language Use
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- Author: Christopher S. Butler
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
- ISBN: 9027294186
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 433
This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricably embedded in sociocultural and psychological contexts of use. The majority of the studies reported is empirical in nature, many making use of corpora or other textual materials in the language(s) under investigation. The book begins with an introductory section in which the editors provide surveys of the state of the art in both functional and contrastive linguistics. The other five sections of the volume are devoted to (i) a cognitive perspective on form and function, (ii) information structure, (iii) collocations and formulaic language, (iv) language learning, and (v) discourse and culture.
Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom
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- Author: Zoltán Dörnyei
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN: 0521529719
- Category : Foreign Language Study
- Languages : en
- Pages : 192
Working, learning and living in groups is a central feature of humans, and therefore the study of groups called group dynamics is a vibrant academic field, overlapping diverse areas such as psychology, sociology, business studies and political science. It is also highly relevant to language education because the success of classroom learning is very much dependent on how students relate to each other, what the classroom climate is like, what roles the teacher and the learners play and, more generally, how well students can cooperate and communicate with each other. This innovative book addresses these issues and offers practical advice on how to manage language learner groups in a way that they develop into cohesive and productive teams. Educators interested in communicative language teaching will particularly welcome this book as a useful guide in their day-to-day teaching practice.
Dynamics of a Social Language Learning Community
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- Author: Jo Mynard
- Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
- ISBN: 9781788928939
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 216
"This book presents an in-depth look at a social language learning space within a university context. Drawing on the literature from identity in second language learning, communities of practice and learner beliefs, it demonstrates how psychological phenomena shape a space and how a learning space can contribute to a wider learning ecology"--
Self and Identity in Adolescent Foreign Language Learning
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- Author: Florentina Taylor
- Publisher: Multilingual Matters
- ISBN: 1783090014
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 288
This book explores the role of identity in adolescent foreign language learning to provide evidence that an identity-focused approach can make a difference to achievement in education. It uses both in-depth exploratory interviews with language learners and a cross-sectional survey to provide a unique glimpse into the identity dynamics that learners need to manage in their interaction with contradictory relational contexts (e.g. teacher vs. classmates; parents vs. friends), and that appear to impair their perceived competence and declared achievement in language learning. Furthermore, this work presents a new model of identity which incorporates several educational psychology theories (e.g. self-discrepancy, self-presentation, impression management), developmental theories of adolescence and principles of foreign language teaching and learning. This book gives rise to potentially policy-changing insights and will be of importance to those interested in the relationship between self, identity and language teaching and learning.
Dynamics of Language Contact
Exploring the Dynamics of Second Language Writing
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- Author: Barbara Kroll
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN: 0521822920
- Category : Foreign Language Study
- Languages : en
- Pages : 301
A collection of 13 original articles, this book is intended to provide a series of discussions about multiple aspects of second language writing, presenting chapters that collectively address a range of issues that are important to new teachers at the post-secondary level. The chapters provide scholarly visions, insight, and interpretation oriented toward explaining the field of teaching academic writing to non-native speakers. The book is designed to provide foundational content-knowledge in this area, each chapter authored by recognized experts in the field. Throughout the chapters, presentation and review of scholarship is presented primarily in the interest of understanding how such knowledge directly or potentially impart teaching, making this a pedagogically relevant book. In addition to helping train new teachers, the book will serve as an updated reference book for practicing teachers and scholars to consult.
