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Perspectives on Individual Characteristics and Foreign Language Education / ed. by Wai Meng Chan, Kwee Nyet Chin, Izumi Walker, Sunil Bhatt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Second and Foreign Language Education [SSFLE] ; 6Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614510956
  • 9781614510932
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 407.1 23
LOC classification:
  • P107 .P485 2012
  • P118.2 .P477 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 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 Theory -- Part 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 abroad -- Part 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
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 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 Theory -- Part 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 abroad -- Part 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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