1st Edition
Learner Contributions to Language Learning New Directions in Research
By Michael Breen
Copyright 2001
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since it was first established in the 1970s the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language education. Drawing extensively on empirical research and theoretical work in linguistics, sociology, psychology and education, the series explores key issues in language acquisition and language use.
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Introduction: Conceptualisation, affect, and action in context
- Individual cognitive/ affective learner contributions and differential success in second langugae acquisition Diana Larsen-Freeman
- The role of learning strategies in second language acquisition Anna Uhli Chamot
- Metacognitive knowledge in SLA: the neglected variable Anita L. Wenden
- The metaphorical constructions of second language learners Rod Ellis
- 'The bleached bones of a story': learners' constructions of language teachers Rebecca L. Oxford
- Overt participation and covert acquisition in the language classroom Micahel P. Breen
- (S)econd (L)anguage (A)ctivity theory: understanding second language learners as people James P. Lantolf and Aneta Pavlenko
- Non-participation, imagined communities and the language classroom Bonny Norton
Postscript: New directions for reasearch on learner contributions
Biography
Michael P. Breen is Professor of Language Education in the Centre for English Language Teaching, University of Stirling.
