Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning (eBook)

Garold Murray, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Terry Lamb (Herausgeber)

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2011
Channel View Publications (Verlag)
978-1-84769-498-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in order to investigate the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning.

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In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a conceptual level the authors explore issues related to agency, metacognition, imagination, beliefs, and self. The book also addresses practice in classroom, self-access, and distance education contexts, considering topics such as teachers' views on motivation, plurilingual learning, sustaining motivation in distance education, pop culture and gaming, study abroad, and the role of agency and identity in the motivation of pre-service teachers. The book concludes with a discussion of how an approach which sees identity, motivation, and autonomy as interrelated constructs has the potential to inform theory, practice and future research directions in the field of language teaching and learning.

Autor

lt;p>Garold Murray is associate professor in the Language Education Centre, Okayama University, Japan. His research employs ethnography and narrative inquiry to explore autonomy, metacognition, and community in relation to classroom, out-of-class, and self-access language learning.

Xuesong (Andy) Gao is assistant professor at the Department of English, Hong Kong Institute of Education. His research interests include language learning strategy, learner narratives and teacher development.

Terry Lamb is based in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, England. He has published widely in the fields of learner and teacher autonomy, multilingualism, language policy, and teacher development.

Inhalt

Xuesong Gao and Terry Lamb: Exploring Links between Identity, Motivation and Autonomy

Section I: Emerging Theoretical Perspectives

Ema Ushioda: Motivating Learners to Speak as Themselves

Xuesong Gao and Lawrence Jun Zhang: Joining Forces for Synergy: Agency and Metacognition as Interrelated Theoretical Perspectives on Learner Autonomy

Liliane Assis Sade: Emerging Selves, Language Learning and Motivation through the Lens of Chaos

Vera Lúcia Menezes De Oliveira E Paiva: Identity, Motivation, and Autonomy in SLA from the Perspective of Complex Dynamical Systems

Section II: Independent Learning Settings

Garold Murray: Imagination, Metacognition, and the L2 Self in a Self-Access Learning Environment

E. Desirée Castillo Zaragoza: Identity, Motivation and Plurilingualism in SACs

Linda Murphy: ‘Why am I Doing This?’ Maintaining Motivation in Distance Language Learning

Hayo Reinders and Noemí Lázaro: Beliefs, Identity and Motivation in Implementing Autonomy: The Teacher’s Perspective

Section III: Cultures and Contexts

Alice Chik and Stephan Breidbach: Identity, Motivation and Autonomy: A Tale of Two Cities

Stephen Ryan and Sarah Mercer: Natural Talent, Natural Acquisition and Abroad: Learner Attributions of Agency in Language Learning

Martin Lamb: Future Selves, Motivation And Autonomy In Long-Term EFL Learning Trajectories

Diane Malcolm: “Failing” to Achieve Autonomy in English for Medical Purposes

Neil Cowie and Keiko Sakui: Crucial but Neglected: EFL Teachers’ Perspectives on Learner Motivation

Jing Huang: A Dynamic Account of Autonomy, Agency and Identity in TEFL Learning

Garold Murray: Identity, Motivation and Autonomy: Stretching our Boundaries

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Second Language Acquisition
• Reihe/Serie: Second Language Acquisition
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lektüren / Interpretationen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Agency in language learning • Autonomy • autonomy and language learning • Foreign language learning • Identity • identity and language learning • Language teaching and learning • Motivation • motivation and language learning • Second Language acquisition • Second Language Learning • SLA
• ISBN-10: 1-84769-498-5 / 1847694985
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84769-498-0 / 9781847694980