Lessons from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency: Motivation, Cognition and Identity

✍ Scribed by Zoltán Dörnyei; Katarina Mentzelopoulos

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Series: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching; 18
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book opens a narrative window into the experiences of learners who achieve nativelike proficiency and offers insights into their pathways to success. Tying together themes of motivation, cognition and identity, the authors explore how these learners became so successful and whether their success can be repeated by others.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
In Memory
Introduction
1 Theoretical Background
2 Methodology: Identifying Participants and Documenting
3 Defining Nativelikeness
4 A Favourable Set-Up
5 A Unique Bond with the Chosen Language
6 Cognition and Other Facilitative Learner Characteristics
7 Attention to Pronunciation
8 Intensive Effort and Strategic Learning
9 Reinforcing Relationships and Social Expectations
10 Sources of Persistence
11 Second Language Confidence, Comfort and Ownership
12 The Question of L2 Identities
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index