Author: Frank M. GrittnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
A Study of the Theory and Practice of Individualized Foreign Language Instruction
Author: Frank M. GrittnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition
Author: Stephen D. KrashenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Motivation and Foreign Language Learning
Author: David LasagabasterPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027269750
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Motivation is a key aspect of second language learning. There is no doubt that abstract models are basic to gain theoretical insights into motivation; however, teachers and researchers demand comprehensible explanations for motivation that can help them to improve their everyday teaching and research. The aim of this book is to provide both theoretical insights and practical suggestions to improve motivation in the classroom. With this in mind, the book is divided into two sections: the first part includes innovative ideas regarding language learning motivation, whereas the second is focused on the relationship between different approaches to foreign language learning – such as EFL (English as a foreign language), CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) or immersion – and motivation. Both sections have an emphasis on pedagogical implications that are rooted in both theoretical and empirical work.
Research in Education
Author: Resources in Education
Author: President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies
Author: United States. President's Commission on Foreign Language and International StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition
Author: Zhisheng (Edward) WenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614514747
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This book presents comprehensive, thorough and updated analyses of key cognitive individual difference factors (e.g., age, intelligence, language aptitude, working memory, metacognition, learning strategies, and anxiety) as they relate to the acquisition, processing, assessment, and pedagogy of second or foreign languages. Critical reviews and in-depth research syntheses of these pivotal cognitive learner factors are put into historical and broader contexts, drawing upon the multiple authors' extensive research experience, penetrating insights and unique perspectives spanning applied linguistics, teacher training, educational psychology, and cognitive science. The carefully crafted chapters provide essential course readings and valuable references for seasoned researchers and aspiring postgraduate students in the broad fields of instructed second language acquisition, foreign language training, teacher education, language pedagogy, educational psychology, and cognitive development.
Individual Differences in Second/Foreign Language Speech Production: Multidisciplinary Approaches and New Sounds
Author: Peijian Paul SunPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832528376
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Second/foreign language (L2) speech production is a complex process requiring individuals’ combined efforts to utilize various processing components such as conceptualiser, formulator, and articulator. Since the publication of Pim Levelt’s book Speaking – From Intention to Articulation in 1989, a considerable number of studies have examined L2 speech production in the field of neuroscience with a particular focus on the link between speech perception and speech production. Undeniably, a neurolinguistic examination of speech production can enrich our understanding of how human brains compute linguistic information at a cognitive level. However, it is insufficient by only focusing on the neurocognitive dimension of speech production, given that individuals’ speech production can be subject to various individual differences factors, either cognitively, affectively, or socio-culturally. It is, therefore, necessary to move beyond the neurocognitive understanding of speech production by taking every possible perspective into consideration. Individual difference, as an umbrella term, covers psychological traits, personal characteristics, cognitive and emotional components that distinguish learners from each other. Given that individual difference factors can reveal disparities in L2 learning and performance among learners, such factors have attracted researchers’ growing interest concerning their influences on L2 speech processing, their relationships with L2 speech performance, and their contributions to L2 speech development. Nevertheless, our understanding of L2 speech production is not only insufficient compared to other L2 skills such as writing and reading, but also limited to the neurocognitive account of L2 speech production. More research, therefore, is in urgent need to uncover the influence of various individual differences factors on L2 speech production from multidisciplinary perspectives.
Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning
Author: Peter RobinsonPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027297517
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Second language learners differ in how successfully they adapt to, and profit from, instruction. This book aims to show that adaptation to L2 instruction, and subsequent L2 learning, is a result of the interaction between learner characteristics and learning contexts. Describing and explaining these interactions is fundamentally important to theories of instructed SLA, and for effective L2 pedagogy. This collection is the first to explore this important issue in contemporary task-based, immersion, and communicative pedagogic settings. In the first section, leading experts in individual differences research describe recent advances in theories of intelligence, L2 aptitude, motivation, anxiety and emotion, and the relationship of native language abilities to L2 learning. In the second section, these theoretical insights are applied to empirical studies of individual differences-treatment interactions in classroom learning, experimental studies of the effects of focus on form and incidental learning, and studies of naturalistic versus instructed SLA.
The Psychology of the Language Learner
Author: Zoltán DörnyeiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135704783
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
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.