Learner contributions to language learning : new directions in research /
edited by Michael P. Breen.
- xxii, 218 pages ; 24 cm.
- Applied linguistics and language study .
- Applied linguistics and language study. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-210) and index.
Introduction: Conceptualisation, affect, and action in context -- Individual cognitive / affective learner contributions and differential success in second langugae acquisition / The role of learning strategies in second language acquisition / Metacognitive knowledge in SLA: the neglected variable / The metaphorical constructions of second language learners / 'The bleached bones of a story': learners' constructions of language teachers / Overt participation and covert acquisition in the language classroom / Second Language Activity theory: understanding second language learners as people / Non-participation, imagined communities and the language classroom / Postscript: New directions for research on learner contributions. Diana Larsen-Freeman -- Anna Uhli Chamot -- Anita L. Wenden -- Rod Ellis -- Rebecca L. Oxford -- Micahel P. Breen -- James P. Lantolf and Aneta Pavlenko -- Bonny Norton --
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Second language acquisition. Language and languages--Study and teaching.