Perspectives on Individual Characteristics and Foreign Language Education:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston De Gruyter 2012
Schriftenreihe:Studies in second and foreign language education 6
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Beschreibung:Selected papers from CLaSIC 2010, the Fourth Centre for Language Studies International Conference held in Singapore, December 2-4, 2010
Includes bibliographical references and index
Chapter 1. Individual characteristics and foreign language education: An introduction to the book; Part 1: Cognitive variables; Chapter 2 Attention, awareness, and individual differences in language learning; Chapter 3 Language learning aptitude and foreign language learning; Chapter 4 Understanding L2 reading: A cognitive perspective; Chapter 5 The effects of motivation and proficiency on pragmatic and grammatical awareness in foreign language learning; Chapter 6 Differentiated instruction for language and learning strategies: Classroom applications
Chapter 7. Characterising individual learners on an empirically-developed can-do system: An application of Latent Rank TheoryPart 2: Beliefs, assumptions and attitudes; Chapter 8. Learner language in unrehearsed communication: Nurturing individual differences in the classroom; Chapter 9. Exploring Australian Japanese language teachers' perceptions of intercultural language learning; Chapter 10. Assumptions about learning and teaching languages amongst Australian pre-service teachers: A pedagogical process allowing reflection for teacher learning
Chapter 11. Individual difference and context in study abroadPart 3: Motivation, identity and anxiety; Chapter 12. The role of stories in teacher development; Chapter 13. Language identity as a process and second language learning; Chapter 14. Fostering learners' affective development through process drama; Chapter 15. Implementing a goal setting program for Efl students: The design, process and results; Chapter 16. A study of foreign language classroom anxiety at a Taiwanese university; Authors and their affiliations; Index
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
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