Beyond the Language Classroom

✍ Scribed by Phil Benson, Hayo Reinders (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Language Learning and Teaching Beyond the Classroom: An Introduction to the Field....Pages 7-16
Family, Friends, and Learning Beyond the Classroom: Social Networks and Social Capital in Language Learning....Pages 17-34
Places for Learning: Technology-mediated Language Learning Practices Beyond the Classroom....Pages 35-46
From Milk Cartons to English Roommates: Context and Agency in L2 Learning Beyond the Classroom....Pages 47-58
Affordances for Language Learning Beyond the Classroom....Pages 59-71
Becoming Multilingual: An Ethnographic Approach to SLA Beyond the Classroom....Pages 72-87
Talk about Language Use: ‘I know a little about your language’....Pages 88-105
A Possible Path to Progress: Out-of-school English Language Learners in Sweden....Pages 106-118
Teenagers Learning Languages Out of School: What, Why and How Do They Learn? How Can School Help Them?....Pages 119-131
Older Language Learners, Social Learning Spaces and Community....Pages 132-145
Tandem Learning in Virtual Spaces: Supporting Non-formal and Informal Learning in Adults....Pages 146-160
Home Tutor Cognitions and the Nature of Tutor—Learner Relationships....Pages 161-174
Materials Development for Learning Beyond the Classroom....Pages 175-189
Back Matter....Pages 190-208

✦ Subjects

Teaching and Teacher Education; Language Teaching; Linguistics, general; Language Education; Applied Linguistics