The Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jim King.
• Editors: King, Jim
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword; Diane Larsen-Freeman -- 1. Introduction to the Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner; Jim King -- 2. The Contexts Within Me: L2 Self as a Complex Dynamic System; Sarah Mercer -- 3. The Dynamic Interplay of the Ideal Self, Mental Imagery and Context: A Language Learner's Journey of Success; Letty Chan -- 4. Past Selves: Emerging Motivational Guides across Temporal Contexts; Joseph Falout -- 5. When the Learner becomes the Context: Strategic Identity Display in Learning English as a Foreign Language in Europe; Florentina Taylor and Vera Busse -- 6. The Context-sensitivity of Self-concept and Willingness to Communicate in the Chinese EFL Classroom: A Case Study; Jian-E Peng -- 7. Talk and Silence in an EFL Classroom: Interplay of Learners and Context; Tomoko Yashima, Maiko Ikeda and Satomi Nakahira -- 8. Classroom Silence and the Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner: A Stimulated Recall Study; Jim King -- 9. The Dynamic Interplay between Language and Social Context in the Language Classroom: Interpersonal Turn Taking for ELF Learners; Michael Handford -- 10. A Dynamic Perspective on Student Language Teachers' Different Learning Pathways in a Collaborative Context; Agneta Svalberg and Jim Askham -- 11. Language Learning in Context: Complex Dynamic Systems and the Role of Mixed Methods Research; Alex Gilmore -- 12. Context and Inference in Language Testing; Glenn Fulcher.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 418.0071; Second language acquisition -- Psychological aspects -- Research; Cognitive learning -- Psychological aspects -- Research; Applied linguistics -- Research; Psycholinguistics -- Research; Study & Teaching; Linguistics; Teaching of a specific subject; Language; Applied linguistics -- Research; Psycholinguistics -- Research; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137457141; 1137457147
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