Learners' Stories: Difference and Diversity in Language Learning

Klappentext This volume is a collection of nine original papers exploring dimensions of individual difference in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives. Zusammenfassung This volume is a collection of nine original papers exploring dimensions of individual difference in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, (Auto)biography and learner diversity, Affect in lifelong learning: Exploring L2 motivation as a dynamic process, Emotion processes in second language acquisition, Is there language acquisition after 40? Older learners speak up, An Arabic-speaking English learner's path to autonomy through reading, Learners' constructions of identities and imagined communities, 'It's just rules ... that's all it is at this stage...', Accommodation zone: Two learners' struggles to cope with a distance learning English course, Learning a second language with broadcast materials at home: Japanese students' long-term experiences, Conclusion

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• Authors: Phil Benson, Philip Benson, David Nunan, David (ed) Nunan
• Assisted by: Phil Benson (Editor), Benson Phil (Editor), David Nunan (Editor), Michael Swan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2005
• EAN: 9780521614146
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61414-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 227 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Cambridge Language Teaching Library; Print on demand titles
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language teaching theory and methods, Usage & grammar guides, Usage and grammar guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary, Applied linguistics for ELT