Learners' Stories: Difference and Diversity in Language Learning (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) - Couverture souple

Benson, Phil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521614147 ISBN 13 : 9780521614146

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This volume is a collection of nine original papers exploring dimensions of individual difference in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives. This volume is a collection of nine original papers exploring dimensions of individual difference in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives. Topics covered include motivation, emotion, age, learning strategies and beliefs, identity and the influence of classroom, distance and self-instructional settings. The authors use a variety of research methods to investigate learners' experiences of these aspects of the learning process. Among the countries represented in the research are Australia, Bahrain, China, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom and the United States. The studies will be of interest to teachers, teachers-in-preparation, teacher educators and researchers.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume is a collection of nine original papers exploring dimensions of individual difference in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives. This book focusses on language learners as people, not as abstract individuals. By listening to the voices of the learners themselves and setting them in the context of their personal and social lives it advances our understanding of the enormous tasks faced by second and foreign language learners. It contains new and previously unpublished research which fills a gap in the existing literature. It also demonstrates how first-person accounts of langauge learning can be used practically both inside and outside the classroom.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521614147
• ISBN 13: 9780521614146
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Éditeur: Nunan David
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible