Language Learner Strategies
Contexts, Issues and Applications in Second Language Learning and Teaching
1st Edition
Published on 19. October 2017
272 pages
978-1-4742-6416-7 (ISBN)
Description
Language Learner Strategies combines principles with research and classroom practice, providing a new view of language learning to inform policy and teaching methodology. Divided into three parts, the book draws links between language learning theory in the established research literature, the authors' own empirical studies and the implications for curriculum policy and teacher education.
The book addresses issues that to date have not been fully explored including the strategies of the 12-15 year old age range learning Modern Languages such as French, German, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. A special focus is given to the sociocultural aspects of learner strategies and their link with psychological contexts in which they are used. The authors explore the cognitive turn in language learner strategy research and the practical teaching approaches it helps to develop. It sets a future agenda for learner strategy research and classroom practice.
The book addresses issues that to date have not been fully explored including the strategies of the 12-15 year old age range learning Modern Languages such as French, German, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. A special focus is given to the sociocultural aspects of learner strategies and their link with psychological contexts in which they are used. The authors explore the cognitive turn in language learner strategy research and the practical teaching approaches it helps to develop. It sets a future agenda for learner strategy research and classroom practice.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-6416-7 (9781474264167)
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Michael James Grenfell | Vee Harris
Language Learner Strategies
Contexts, Issues and Applications in Second Language Learning and Teaching
Book
10/2017
Bloomsbury Academic
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Michael James Grenfell has held Chairs at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and the University of Southampton where he is now based. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia. He has an extensive background of research on Language and Linguistics, and the work of Pierre Bourdieu. He is the author/ editor of several books including: Modern Languages Across the Curriculum (2002), Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics (2011); Language, Ethnography and Education (2012); and Bourdieu: Key Concepts (2012).
Vee Harris is a Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, having previously led the PGCE Modern Languages course while Senior Lecturer there. Her many publications involve classroom-based studies and she has a special expertise in language learning strategy instruction.
Vee Harris is a Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, having previously led the PGCE Modern Languages course while Senior Lecturer there. Her many publications involve classroom-based studies and she has a special expertise in language learning strategy instruction.
Content
Introduction
Part I: Principles and Practice
1. The Case for Language Learner Strategies
2. What Research Tells Us
Part II: Strategies in Practice
Section A: Progress in Modern Languages: What Difference does Strategy Based Instruction make?
3. The Role of Socio-Cultural Factors and Strategy Based Instruction
4. The Role of Affective Factors and Strategy Based Instruction
Section B: Beyond the Monolingual Learner of European Languages
5. Learning a Third Language: What Learner Strategies do Bilingual Students bring?
6. Strategies used to Memorise Mandarin Chinese Characters
Part III: Applications in Practice
7. Strategy Based Instruction
8. Shaping Learning: Curricula and Syllabuses
9. Language Learner Strategies and Teacher Education
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Part I: Principles and Practice
1. The Case for Language Learner Strategies
2. What Research Tells Us
Part II: Strategies in Practice
Section A: Progress in Modern Languages: What Difference does Strategy Based Instruction make?
3. The Role of Socio-Cultural Factors and Strategy Based Instruction
4. The Role of Affective Factors and Strategy Based Instruction
Section B: Beyond the Monolingual Learner of European Languages
5. Learning a Third Language: What Learner Strategies do Bilingual Students bring?
6. Strategies used to Memorise Mandarin Chinese Characters
Part III: Applications in Practice
7. Strategy Based Instruction
8. Shaping Learning: Curricula and Syllabuses
9. Language Learner Strategies and Teacher Education
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
