The Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner
Published on 27. October 2015
Book
Hardback
XIX, 251 pages
978-1-137-45712-7 (ISBN)
Description
This edited volume offers a series of state-of-the-art conceptual papers and empirical research studies which consider how contextual factors at multiple levels dynamically interact with individuals to influence how they go about the complex business of learning and using a second language.
Reviews / Votes
'This pioneering collection of papers develops a range of descriptive and analytical approaches for understanding how language education is generated by the ecological interplay of contexts and language learners. The use of Complexity Theory as a frame makes this an inspiring and forward-looking contribution. The volume also connects to more established theoretical frames, thereby illustrating how the new science of complexity may expand the possibilities for research into the relationship between contexts and language learners. This makes the volume essential reading for students, professionals and researchers needing access to the 'cutting-edge' of scholarship in this area.'
? Dr Juup Stelma, Programme Director MA TESOL, University of Manchester, UK
More details
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XIX, 251 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
462 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-45712-7 (9781137457127)
DOI
10.1057/9781137457134
Schweitzer Classification
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01/2016
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Jim Askham, University of Leicester, UK
Vera Busse, Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany
Letty Chan, Hong Kong Shue Yan University
Joseph Falout, Nihon University, Japan
Glenn Fulcher, University of Leicester, UK
Alex Gilmore, University of Tokyo, Japan
Michael Handford, University of Tokyo, Japan
Maiko Ikeda, Kansai University, Japan
Jim King, University of Leicester, UK
Diane Larsen-Freeman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Sarah Mercer, University of Graz, Austria
Satomi Nakahira, Kansai University, Japan
Jian-E Peng, Shantou University, China
Agneta Svalberg, University of Leicester, UK
Florentina Taylor, University of Greenwich, London
Tomoko Yashima, Kansai University, Japan
Content
Foreword; Diane Larsen-Freeman 1. Introduction to the Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner; Jim King 2. The Contexts Within Me: L2 Self as a Complex Dynamic System; Sarah Mercer 3. The Dynamic Interplay of the Ideal Self, Mental Imagery and Context: A Language Learner's Journey of Success; Letty Chan 4. Past Selves: Emerging Motivational Guides across Temporal Contexts; Joseph Falout 5. When the Learner becomes the Context: Strategic Identity Display in Learning English as a Foreign Language in Europe; Florentina Taylor and Vera Busse 6. The Context-sensitivity of Self-concept and Willingness to Communicate in the Chinese EFL Classroom: A Case Study; Jian-E Peng 7. Talk and Silence in an EFL Classroom: Interplay of Learners and Context; Tomoko Yashima, Maiko Ikeda and Satomi Nakahira 8. Classroom Silence and the Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner: A Stimulated Recall Study; Jim King 9. The Dynamic Interplay between Language and Social Context in the Language Classroom: Interpersonal Turn Taking for ELF Learners; Michael Handford 10. A Dynamic Perspective on Student Language Teachers' Different Learning Pathways in a Collaborative Context; Agneta Svalberg and Jim Askham 11. Language Learning in Context: Complex Dynamic Systems and the Role of Mixed Methods Research; Alex Gilmore 12. Context and Inference in Language Testing; Glenn Fulcher