The Developing Language Learner: An Introduction to Exploratory Practice

✍ Scribed by Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Series: Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book-length treatment of Exploratory Practice introduces five propositions about learners as practitioners of learning who are capable of developing their expertise through conducting research in and on their own classroom learning lives.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
General Introduction: Learners, and What We Think of Them....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Introduction to Part I....Pages 15-18
Assessment and the Learner....Pages 19-36
Method and the Learner....Pages 37-57
Teacher Training and the Learner....Pages 58-79
Learner Variables and the Learner....Pages 80-91
Second Language Acquisition Studies and the Learner....Pages 92-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Introduction to Part II: What the Past Has Provided....Pages 107-121
Going Beyond Experiments: Descriptive and Qualitative Classroom Research....Pages 122-139
The Research We Now Need: Principled and Inclusive Practitioner Research....Pages 140-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Introduction to Part III....Pages 165-174
Getting Started on Working for Understanding....Pages 175-192
Conducting Investigations....Pages 193-215
The ‘Web of Life’ of the Rio de Janeiro Exploratory Practice Group....Pages 216-234
Developing Understandings In and Beyond the Classroom....Pages 235-260
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Sources and Resources....Pages 263-283
Postscript....Pages 284-285
Back Matter....Pages 286-312

✦ Subjects

Language Education; Linguistics, general; Teaching and Teacher Education; Language Teaching; English; Arts Education