1st Edition
Language Intake Understanding and Improving Language Learning and Teaching
By Carol Griffiths
Copyright 2025
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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Aimed towards advanced students and researchers in language acquisition and teaching, Language Intake: Understanding and Improving Language Learning and Teaching considers the long-debated definition of language intake and its determining factors. In doing so, it presents a unique argument for language input and intake, with a particular focus on how "input", "interaction", "identity", and... Read more
Foreword by Lilia S. Borquez-Morales
List of abbreviations
- Reflections on the black hole of language intake
- The intake concept: Overview
- The role of input in the achievement of intake
- The role of interaction in the achievement of intake
- The role of identity in the achievement of intake: Biographical and sociocultural factors
- The role of identity in the achievement of intake: Ccognitive and psychological factors
- The role of identity in the achievement of language intake: Affective factors
- The role of investment in the achievement of intake
- Theoretical underpinnings of language intake
- The Intake Hypothesis: A summary
Glossary
Intake questionnaire
Index
Biography
Carol Griffiths has been a teacher, manager, and teacher trainer of English Language Teaching for many years. She has taught in many places around the world, including New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, China, North Korea, Turkey, the UK, and North Cyprus. She has presented at numerous conferences and published widely.
