Promoting Reflection on Language Learning: Lessons from a University Setting

✍ Scribed by Neil Curry (editor); Phoebe Lyon (editor); Jo Mynard (editor)

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 376
Series: Second Language Acquisition; 163
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book presents the collaborative efforts of a team of academics at a university in Japan to promote learner reflection. It includes studies, practical applications and reflective accounts, and demonstrates how reflection can be effectively integrated into language learning activities with significant benefits to the learners.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Part 1: Setting the Scene
1 Promoting Reflection on Language Learning: Introduction
2 Overview of the Institutional and Educational Context
Part 2: Theoretical Constructs
3 Promoting Reflection on Language Learning: A Brief Summary of the Literature
4 Reflecting through Dialogue
Part 3: Insights from Initial Studies
5 Fostering Learner Development through Reflection: How the Project Started
6 Developing Instruments and Tools to Examine Reflection in Our Context
7 Encouraging Introspection on Speaking Performance in Class: Findings from Student Reflections
Part 4: Intervention Studies
8 Tools and Techniques for Helping Language Learners Manage their Target Language Use in the Classroom
9 A Reflection Intervention: Investigating Effectiveness and Students’ Perceptions
10 Learner Reflection on Group Work and Leadership Skills
11 Promoting and Evaluating Students’ Development of Self-Directed Language Learning and Reflective Abilities
12 Understanding the Effectiveness of Reflection on Fluency Writing and Grammar Logs
Part 5: Reflection and Technology
13 Considerations for Promoting Reflection on Language Learning with Technology: Insights from Stakeholders
14 Incorporating Reflective Practices into a Class about Learning English through Video Games
15 Facilitating Student Reflection Using an Online Platform
16 Reflective Practice for Transformative Learning in a MOOC Course
Part 6: Tools and Activities for Promoting Reflection in Practice
17 Promoting Reflective Dialogue through Introductory Self-Directed Learning Courses
18 Training Reflective Learners: Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Reflective Activities in a Self-Study Module
19 Fostering Interactive Reflection on Language Learning through the Use of Advising Tools
Part 7: Retrospective Reflections
20 Reflective Action Logging: Well-Becoming and Learning
21 A Teacher Learns How to Advise
22 Practice What You Teach: Supporting from Student Perspectives
Part 8: Conclusions
23 Conclusions: How Can We Promote Reflection on Language Learning?
Index

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