Language Learner Strategies: Contexts, Issues and Applications in Second Language Learning and Teaching

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• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part ONE Basics: Principles and Practice
1 The Case for Language Learner Strategies and How It Responds to Modern Foreign Languages
2 What Research Tells Us
Part Two Strategies in Practice: From Theory to Research Practice
Introduction to Part Two
Section A: Progressin Modern Languages: What Difference Does Strategy Based Instruction Make?
3 The Role of Sociocultural Factors and Strategy Based Instruction
4 The Role of Affective Strategies in Students’ Learning
Section B: Beyond the Monolingual Learner of European Languages
5 Learning a Third Language: What Learning Strategies Do Bilingual Students Bring?
6 Strategies Used to Memorize Mandarin Chinese Written Characters
Conclusion to Part Two
Part THREE Applications
Introduction to Part Three
7 Strategy Based Instruction
8 Shaping Learning: Curricula and Syllabuses
9 Language Learner Strategies and Teacher Education
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index