Learners' Stories: Difference and Diversity in Language Learning by David Nunan

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This volume is a collection of nine original papers exploring dimensions of individual difference in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives.

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This volume is a collection of nine original papers exploring dimensions of individual difference in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives. This volume is a collection of nine original papers exploring dimensions of individual difference in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives. Topics covered include motivation, emotion, age, learning strategies and beliefs, identity and the influence of classroom, distance and self-instructional settings. The authors use a variety of research methods to investigate learners' experiences of these aspects of the learning process. Among the countries represented in the research are Australia, Bahrain, China, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom and the United States. The studies will be of interest to teachers, teachers-in-preparation, teacher educators and researchers.

Author Biography

Dr. David Nunan is Director of the English Centre and Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Hong Kong. He is well known for his innovative methodology and his remarkable ability to bring to the classroom a variety of activities that will enhance students' oral production. He is a past president of International TESOL, and has published numerous journal articles and texts including the core series Atlas, Expressions, and GO FOR IT! and the skills series Listen In, all for Heinle. His professional titles with Heinle include Second Language Teaching & Learning and Pursuing Profess

Table of Contents

Introduction, (Auto)biography and learner diversity, Affect in lifelong learning: Exploring L2 motivation as a dynamic process, Emotion processes in second language acquisition, Is there language acquisition after 40? Older learners speak up, An Arabic-speaking English learner's path to autonomy through reading, Learners' constructions of identities and imagined communities, 'It's just rules ... that's all it is at this stage...', Accommodation zone: Two learners' struggles to cope with a distance learning English course, Learning a second language with broadcast materials at home: Japanese students' long-term experiences, Conclusion

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Learners' Stories is a collection of nine original papers exploring individual differences in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives.

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This volume is a collection of nine original papers exploring dimensions of individual difference in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives.

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This book focusses on language learners as people, not as abstract individuals. By listening to the voices of the learners themselves and setting them in the context of their personal and social lives it advances our understanding of the enormous tasks faced by second and foreign language learners. It contains new and previously unpublished research which fills a gap in the existing literature. It also demonstrates how first-person accounts of langauge learning can be used practically both inside and outside the classroom.

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This book focusses on language learners as people, not as abstract individuals. By listening to the voices of the learners themselves and setting them in the context of their personal and social lives it advances our understanding of the enormous tasks faced by second and foreign language learners. It contains new and previously unpublished research which fills a gap in the existing literature. It also demonstrates how first-person accounts of langauge learning can be used practically both inside and outside the classroom.

Details ISBN0521614147 Author Phil Benson Short Title LEARNERS STORIES Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Cambridge Language Teaching Library Language English ISBN-10 0521614147 ISBN-13 9780521614146 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 2005 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Difference and Diversity in Language Learning Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Phil Benson Pages 184 Affiliation The University of Hong Kong DOI 10.1604/9780521614146 UK Release Date 2005-04-07 AU Release Date 2005-04-07 NZ Release Date 2005-04-07 Publication Date 2005-04-07 DEWEY 418.0071 Audience ELT General We've got this

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