TheImpact of Self-Concept on Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Kata Csizér (editor); Michael Magid (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 421
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book shows the effects of self-concept on L2 learning and teaching. It includes chapters discussing approaches related to self-concept; empirical studies related to the selves of learners; research from the teachers' perspective on students' self-concept and L2 motivational intervention studies associated with the development of self-concept.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
1 The Self-Concept and Language Learning: An Introduction
Part 1 Theories Related to Self-Concept
2 Future Self-Guides and Vision
3 At the Interface of the Socio-Educational Model, Self-Determination Theory and the L2 Motivational Self System Models
4 Re-imagining the Self as a Network of Relationships
Part 2 Self-Concept and Language Learning
5 The Ideal L2 Self, Self- Regulatory Strategies and Autonomous Learning: A Comparison of Different Groups of English Language Learners
6 EFL Students’ L2 Motivational Self System and Self- Regulation: Focusing on Elementary and Junior High School Students in Korea
7 The L2 Self-Concept in Second Language Learning Motivation: A Longitudinal Study of Korean University Students
8 Culture, Autonomy and the Self in Language Learning
9 Investigating Adult Migrant ESL Learners’ Language Learning Motivational Profile in Australia: Towards a Bicultural Identity
10 Investing in Experiential Capital: Self-efficacy, Imagination and Development of Ideal L2 Selves
11 Self-Constructs in Language Learning: What is their Role in Self-Regulation?
12 Emerging Self-Identities of Second Language Learners: Emotions and the Experiential Profile of Identity Construction
13 Fear of the True Self: Social Anxiety and the Silent Behaviour of Japanese Learners of English
14 Chinese University Students’ Willingness to Communicate in the L2 Classroom: The Complex and Dynamic Interplay of Self-Concept, Future Self-Guides and the Sociocultural Context
15 The Interaction of the L2 Motivational Self System with Socialisation and Identification Patterns and L2 Accent Attainment
Part 3 Self-Concept and Language Teaching
16 The Effect of Motivational Strategies on Self-related Aspects of Student Motivation and Second Language Learning
17 ELT Motivation from a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Perspective: A Longitudinal Case Study of L2 Teacher Motivation in Beijing
Part 4 Intervention Studies
18 A Motivational Programme for Learners of English: An Application of the L2 Motivational Self System
19 Effects of an Imagery Training Strategy on Chinese University Students’ Possible Second Language Selves and Learning Experiences
20 Applications and Implications of the L2 Motivational Self System in a Catalan EFL Context
Part 5 Future Research Directions
21 The Self-Concept and Language Learning: Future Research Directions