Stimulating Student Interest in Language Learning: Theory, Research and Practice

✍ Scribed by Tan Bee Tin (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 331
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the issues and concerns many language teachers have in not just helping able students to learn a foreign or second language but more importantly how to get reluctant learners to become interested in language learning. Tin proposes ‘interest’ as an important construct that requires investigation if we are to understand second language learning experiences in a modern globalised world. The book offers both theoretical explorations and empirical findings arising from the author’s own research in the field. Chapters demonstrate how various theoretical and empirical findings can be applied to practice so as to raise the awareness of the importance of interest in language learning and teaching. For teacher trainers and educators, researchers, and practising language teachers, this comprehensive study provides tools to stimulate student interest in language learning for successful language learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction (‘Interest’ as a New Conceptual Lens)....Pages 3-11
‘Interest’ and Other Similar Terms....Pages 13-26
Defining ‘Interest’: An Educational Psychological Perspective....Pages 27-47
Studying ‘Interest’: Approaches and Methodological Issues....Pages 49-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
‘Interest Talk’ with English Language Teachers/Educators....Pages 83-125
‘Interest Talk’ with English Language Learners: In-Class and Out-of-Class Experiences....Pages 127-151
‘Interest Talk’ with English Language Learners: ‘Same’ Class, But ‘Different’ Interest Trajectories and Experiences....Pages 153-207
Features of Interesting English Language Classes: The Role of Teacher Talk....Pages 209-271
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Stimulating Student Interest in Language Learning....Pages 275-315
Conclusion (‘A Final Call’)....Pages 317-321
Back Matter....Pages 323-329

✦ Subjects

Applied Linguistics;Language Teaching;Teaching and Teacher Education;Language Education;Psycholinguistics