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Learners' stories : difference and diversity in language learning / edited by Phil Benson and David Nunan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge language teaching libraryPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005Description: viii, 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521849381
  • 9780521849388
  • 0521614147
  • 9780521614146
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 418.0071 22
LOC classification:
  • P51 .L389 2005
Contents:
1. Introduction / Phil Benson and David Nunan -- 2. (Auto)biography and learner diversity / Phil Benson -- 3. Affect in lifelong learning : exploring L2 motivation as a dynamic process / Amel Shoaib and Zoltan Dornyei -- 4. Emotion processes in second language acquisition / Sufumi So and Rocio Dominguez -- 5. Is there language acquisition after 40? : older learners speak up / Lois Bellingham -- 6. An Arabic-speaking English learner's path to autonomy through reading / Diane Malcolm -- 7. Learners' constructions of identities and imagined communities / Tim Murphey, Chen Jin and Chen Li-Chi -- 8. 'It's just rules ... that's all it is at this stage ...' / Sara Cotterall -- 9. Accommodation zone : two learners' struggles to cope with a distance learning English course / Solasa Sataporn and Martin Lamb -- 10. Learning a second language with broadcast materials at home : Japanese students' long-term experiences / Tae Umino -- 11. Conclusion / David Nunan and Phil Benson.
Review: "This book focuses on learners as people, and the ways in which language learning is embedded within the personal and social lives of learners. It shows how first-person accounts of language learning can be used practically both inside and outside the classroom."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-172) and index.

1. Introduction / Phil Benson and David Nunan -- 2. (Auto)biography and learner diversity / Phil Benson -- 3. Affect in lifelong learning : exploring L2 motivation as a dynamic process / Amel Shoaib and Zoltan Dornyei -- 4. Emotion processes in second language acquisition / Sufumi So and Rocio Dominguez -- 5. Is there language acquisition after 40? : older learners speak up / Lois Bellingham -- 6. An Arabic-speaking English learner's path to autonomy through reading / Diane Malcolm -- 7. Learners' constructions of identities and imagined communities / Tim Murphey, Chen Jin and Chen Li-Chi -- 8. 'It's just rules ... that's all it is at this stage ...' / Sara Cotterall -- 9. Accommodation zone : two learners' struggles to cope with a distance learning English course / Solasa Sataporn and Martin Lamb -- 10. Learning a second language with broadcast materials at home : Japanese students' long-term experiences / Tae Umino -- 11. Conclusion / David Nunan and Phil Benson.

"This book focuses on learners as people, and the ways in which language learning is embedded within the personal and social lives of learners. It shows how first-person accounts of language learning can be used practically both inside and outside the classroom."--BOOK JACKET.

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