Michael Breen (Australia University of Melbourne)

Learner Contributions to Language Learning

New Directions in Research

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Produktbeschreibung

An active area of study and debate in second language acquisition is "learner contribution" - what a learner can bring to the learning process. This text presents an account of learners' personal attributes - those that have been shown to have an impact upon language learning.

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Produktdetails

• Applied Linguistics and Language Study
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780582404755
• ISBN-10: 0582404754
• Artikelnr.: 24269182

Autorenporträt

Michael P. Breen is Professor of Language Education in the Centre for English Language Teaching, University of Stirling.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Conceptualisation, affect, and action in context
1. Individual cognitive/ affective learner contributions and
differential success in second langugae acquisition Diana
Larsen-Freeman
2. The role of learning strategies in second language acquisition Anna
Uhli Chamot
3. Metacognitive knowledge in SLA: the neglected variable Anita L.
Wenden
4. The metaphorical constructions of second language learners Rod Ellis
5. 'The bleached bones of a story': learners' constructions of language
teachers Rebecca L. Oxford
6. Overt participation and covert acquisition in the language classroom
Micahel P. Breen
7. (S)econd (L)anguage (A)ctivity theory: understanding second language
learners as people James P. Lantolf and Aneta Pavlenko
8. Non-participation, imagined communities and the language classroom
Bonny Norton
Postscript: New directions for reasearch on learner contributions