Second Language Literacy Practices and Language Learning Outside the Classroom (eBook)

Miho Inaba (Autor)

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2018
Channel View Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78892-212-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents a study of literacy practices and language use of students of Japanese outside of the classroom, both in class-related and voluntary activities. It discusses how values, motivations and types of activities differ between the two contexts and concludes that slight changes to teaching practices may enhance autonomous learning.

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This book presents a comprehensive and detailed study of literacy practices and language use outside of the classroom by university students of Japanese. It investigates both tasks related to classes (e.g. homework and preparation for classes) and voluntary activities in the target language (e.g. watching TV and writing emails) and discusses how values, motivations and types of activities differ between the two contexts. It employs sociocultural perspectives to observe reading and writing activities within and under the influence of individual and social contexts, such as learner motives, peer networks and the language classroom, and contributes to the related research areas in the field of second language acquisition, such as motivation, autonomous language learning and language learning strategies.Crucially, the book not only documents out-of-class literacy activities, but also examines which teaching practices facilitate and promote such out-of-class language learning and use. It considers which literacy activities in the target language students undertake out-of-class, which factors encourage or discourage such out-of-class activity and how and with which tools they undertake these activities. As such the book provides guidance for classroom teaching and suggests that slight changes to teaching practices in the classroom may enhance autonomous learning outside the classroom.

Autor

lt;p>Miho Inaba is Lecturer in Japanese language in the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University, UK. Her research interests include autonomous language learning, language learning motivation, sociocultural theory, ICT and foreign language learning.

Inhalt

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Out-of-Class Literacy and Language Learning from Sociocultural Perspectives

Chapter 3. Types of Literacy Activities Performed Outside of the Classroom         

Chapter 4. Class-Related Literacy Practices outside the Classroom            

Chapter 5. Non-Class-Related Literacy Practices

Chapter 6. Language-Related Mediation in L2 Literacy Practices 

Chapter 7. L2 Literacy Practices and Language Learning in Out-of-Class Contexts

References        

Appendix

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Second Language Acquisition
• Reihe/Serie: Second Language Acquisition
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Activity Theory • autonomous language learning • Foreign language learning • ICT and L2 learning • L2 literacy • Language learner autonomy • Motivation • Out-of-class language learning • SCT • SLA • Sociocultural Theory • voluntary L2 learning
• ISBN-10: 1-78892-212-3 / 1788922123
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-212-8 / 9781788922128