Author : Zoltán Dörnyei
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1783092564
This landmark volume offers a collection of conceptual papers and data-based research studies that investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The chapters seek to answer the question of how we can understand motivation if we perceive it as a continuously changing and evolving entity rather than a fixed learner trait.
Author : Ian Tudor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Classroom environment
ISBN : 0521772036
Author : Wander Lowie
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1788925262
This book honours the contribution of Marjolijn Verspoor to the development and implementation of dynamic usage-based (DUB) approaches in second language (L2) research and pedagogy. With chapters written by renowned experts in the field, the book addresses the dynamics of language, language learning and language teaching from a usage-based perspective. The book contains both theory and empirical work: the initial theoretical chapters present cutting-edge thinking in relation to both the scope of DUB theory and its applications, providing conceptual perspectives from cognitive grammar and linguistics, thinking-for-speaking (TFS), and Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) approaches, united by their shared underpinnings of language as a dynamic system of conventionalized routines. The second half of the volume showcases state-of-the-art methodologies to study dynamic trajectories of language learning, empirical investigations into the above-mentioned theoretical concepts, and innovative classroom implementations of DUB language pedagogy.
Author : Christopher S. Butler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027294186
This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricably embedded in sociocultural and psychological contexts of use. The majority of the studies reported is empirical in nature, many making use of corpora or other textual materials in the language(s) under investigation. The book begins with an introductory section in which the editors provide surveys of the state of the art in both functional and contrastive linguistics. The other five sections of the volume are devoted to (i) a cognitive perspective on form and function, (ii) information structure, (iii) collocations and formulaic language, (iv) language learning, and (v) discourse and culture.
Author : Jo Mynard
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788928939
"This book presents an in-depth look at a social language learning space within a university context. Drawing on the literature from identity in second language learning, communities of practice and learner beliefs, it demonstrates how psychological phenomena shape a space and how a learning space can contribute to a wider learning ecology"--
Author : Zoltán Dörnyei
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521529719
Working, learning and living in groups is a central feature of humans, and therefore the study of groups called group dynamics is a vibrant academic field, overlapping diverse areas such as psychology, sociology, business studies and political science. It is also highly relevant to language education because the success of classroom learning is very much dependent on how students relate to each other, what the classroom climate is like, what roles the teacher and the learners play and, more generally, how well students can cooperate and communicate with each other. This innovative book addresses these issues and offers practical advice on how to manage language learner groups in a way that they develop into cohesive and productive teams. Educators interested in communicative language teaching will particularly welcome this book as a useful guide in their day-to-day teaching practice.
Author : Joel Austin Windle
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 1788926951
This book contributes new perspectives from the Global South on the ways in which linguistic and discursive boundaries shape inequalities in educational contexts, ranging from Amazonian missions to Mongolian universities. Through critical ethnographic and sociolinguistic analysis, the chapters explore how such boundaries contribute to the geopolitics of colonialism, capitalism and myriad, interwoven, forms of social life that structure both oppression and resistance. Boundaries are examined across time and space as relational constructs that mark the terms upon which admission to groups, institutions, territories, or practices are granted. The studies further present alternative educational approaches that demonstrate the potential for agency and transgression, highlighting moments of boundary crossing that disrupt existing linguistic ideologies, language policies and curriculum structures.
Author : Martin Nystrand
Publisher :
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807735732
Opening Dialogue examines the effects of classroom discourse on learning in 8th- and 9th-grade literature classes, with broad implications for all grade levels and subjects. Dozens of schools and thousands of students participated in this study, the largest in the field. Contents: Dialogic Instruction: When Recitation Becomes Conversation * The Big Picture: Language and Learning in Hundreds of English Lessons * A Closer Look at Authentic Interaction: Profiles of Student, Teacher Talk in Two Classrooms * What's a Teacher to Do?
Author : Barbara Kroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2003-04-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521822920
A collection of 13 original articles, this book is intended to provide a series of discussions about multiple aspects of second language writing, presenting chapters that collectively address a range of issues that are important to new teachers at the post-secondary level. The chapters provide scholarly visions, insight, and interpretation oriented toward explaining the field of teaching academic writing to non-native speakers. The book is designed to provide foundational content-knowledge in this area, each chapter authored by recognized experts in the field. Throughout the chapters, presentation and review of scholarship is presented primarily in the interest of understanding how such knowledge directly or potentially impart teaching, making this a pedagogically relevant book. In addition to helping train new teachers, the book will serve as an updated reference book for practicing teachers and scholars to consult.
Author : Zoltán Dörnyei
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1783092580
This landmark volume offers a collection of conceptual papers and empirical research studies that investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The contributors include some of the most well-established scholars from three continents, all addressing the question of how we can understand motivation if we perceive it as continuously changing and evolving rather than as a fixed learner trait. The data-based studies also provide useful research models and templates for graduate students and scholars in the fields of applied linguistics and SLA who are interested in engaging with the intriguing area of examining language learning in a dynamic vein.
