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Strategic Language Learning : The Roles of Agency and Context / Xuesong (Andy) Gao.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Second Language AcquisitionPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781847692443
  • 9781847692450
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420.71/151
LOC classification:
  • PE1068.C5 G36 2010
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Towards a Sociocultural Perspective on Strategic Learning -- Chapter 3. Mainland Chinese Students’ Migration to Hong Kong -- Chapter 4. On the Chinese Mainland -- Chapter 5. Learning English in Hong Kong -- Chapter 6. Four Case Studies -- Chapter 7. Agency and Context in Strategic Learning -- Appendix 1: Interview Guide for the Arriving Mainland Chinese Undergraduates -- Appendix 2: The Exit Interview Guide for Mainland Chinese Undergraduates -- References -- Index
Summary: This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates’ language learning experiences in an English medium university in a multilingual setting with a focus on their strategic language learning efforts. This book examines the issue as to what extent language learners’ strategic learning efforts depend on their ‘choice’, if ‘the element of choice’ is the defining characteristic of language learners’ strategic learning behaviour. The inquiry, using a qualitative and ethnographic research approach, reveals dynamic interaction between learners’ agency and contextual conditions underlying the participants’ strategic learning process. Such understanding informs pedagogical efforts to foster individual learners’ capacity for strategic learning and their capacities in opening up and sustaining a social learning space for exercising their strategic learning capacity or utilizing their strategic learning knowledge.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Towards a Sociocultural Perspective on Strategic Learning -- Chapter 3. Mainland Chinese Students’ Migration to Hong Kong -- Chapter 4. On the Chinese Mainland -- Chapter 5. Learning English in Hong Kong -- Chapter 6. Four Case Studies -- Chapter 7. Agency and Context in Strategic Learning -- Appendix 1: Interview Guide for the Arriving Mainland Chinese Undergraduates -- Appendix 2: The Exit Interview Guide for Mainland Chinese Undergraduates -- References -- Index

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This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates’ language learning experiences in an English medium university in a multilingual setting with a focus on their strategic language learning efforts. This book examines the issue as to what extent language learners’ strategic learning efforts depend on their ‘choice’, if ‘the element of choice’ is the defining characteristic of language learners’ strategic learning behaviour. The inquiry, using a qualitative and ethnographic research approach, reveals dynamic interaction between learners’ agency and contextual conditions underlying the participants’ strategic learning process. Such understanding informs pedagogical efforts to foster individual learners’ capacity for strategic learning and their capacities in opening up and sustaining a social learning space for exercising their strategic learning capacity or utilizing their strategic learning knowledge.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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