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Individual Learner Differences in SLA

✍ Scribed by Janusz Arabski (editor); Adam Wojtaszek (editor)

Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Leaves
333
Category
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✦ Synopsis

Individual Learner Differences in SLA addresses the apparently insoluble conflict between the unquestionably individual character of the process of second language acquisition / foreign language learning and the institutionalised, often inflexible character of formal instruction in which it takes place. How, then, is success in SLA so prevalent?

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Background Assumptions
Chapter 1. Individual Learner Differences and Instructed Language Learning: An Insoluble Conflict?
Chapter 2. Research into Language Learning Strategies: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
Part 2: Supporting Learner Autonomy
Chapter 3. Teachers’ Perceptions of Individual Differences in Turkish Primary School EFL Classes
Chapter 4. Learning Autonomy Support by Foreign Language Teachers
Chapter 5. Personality and Parenting Styles as Predictors of Self-Regulation in Foreign Language Learning
Part 3: Learners’ Abilities in Strategy Application
Chapter 6. The Development of Implicit Knowledge through Structured Input Activities: The Importance of Individual Perceptions Concerning Grammar Instruction
Chapter 7. Awareness of Cognate Vocabulary and Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Polish Multilingual and Bilingual Advanced Learners of English
Part 4: Experienced Learners
Chapter 8. A Study of Gender-Related Levels of Processing Anxieties over Three Years of Secondary Grammar School Instruction
Chapter 9. Challenge or Threat? A Study of Perceived Self-Effi cacy of Polish EFL Teachers
Chapter 10. Managing Criticism and Praise by Trainee Interpreters: Looking for Gender Differences
Chapter 11. Student Needs Assessment in Teaching English at the Tertiary Level: An Individual Learner Differences Perspective
Part 5: Individual Character of Phonological Attainment
Chapter 12. Regularity and Individual Variation in Native English and Polish Learners’ Wh-Question Suprasegmentals
Chapter 13. Time-Limited Verbal Fluency Task with Polish−English Unbalanced Bilinguals
Chapter 14. The Acquisition of English Vowel Length Differences before Word-Final Stops by Greek Learners of English
Part 6: Focus on Language Skills: Reading and Writing
Chapter 15. Individual Differences in Foreign Language Reading Comprehension: Gender and Topic Interest
Chapter 16. Individual Differences in L2 Readers’ Strategic Behaviour while Performing Reading to Learn Tasks: A Case Study
Chapter 17. Current Views on Foreign Language Reading Motivation
Chapter 18. From Oral Input to Written Output: On Individual Differences in External Storing of Information
Chapter 19. Accounting for One Student’s Failure and Another’s Success on a Written Academic Assignment
Chapter 20. Online Revisions in FL Writing. General Rules and Individual Differences

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