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Perspectives on individual characteristics and foreign language education /

"Learner characteristics have been at the center of second language acquisition and foreign language education research in response to the puzzling questions: Why are there often large differences in second language (L2) learning achievement and why do many learners, though proficient first lan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: CLaSIC 2010
Otros Autores: Chan, Wai Meng, 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston ; Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, Inc., [2012]
Colección:Studies in second and foreign language education ; 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Individual characteristics and foreign language education: An introduction to the book
  • Part 1. Cognitive variables. 2. Attention, awareness, and individual differences in language learning
  • 3. Language learning aptitude and foreign language learning
  • 4. Understanding L2 reading: A cognitive perspective
  • 5. The effects of motivation and proficiency on pragmatic and grammatical awareness in foreign language learning
  • 6. Differentiated instruction for language and learning strategies: Classroom applications
  • 7. Characterising individual learners on an empirically-developed can-do system: An application of Latent Rank Theory
  • Part 2. Beliefs, assumptions and attitudes. 8. Learner language in unrehearsed communication: Nurturing individual differences in the classroom
  • 9. Exploring Australian Japanese language teachers' perceptions of intercultural language learning
  • 10. Assumptions about learning and teaching languages amongst Australian pre-service teachers: A pedagogical process allowing reflection for teacher learning
  • 11. Individual difference and context in study abroad
  • Part 3. Motivation, identity and anxiety. 12. The role of stories in teacher development
  • 13. Language identity as a process and second language learning
  • 14. Fostering learners' affective development through process drama
  • 15. Implementing a goal setting program for Efl students: The design, process and results
  • 16. A study of foreign language classroom anxiety at a Taiwanese university
  • Authors and their affiliations.