Overview
- Makes an interesting contribution to the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), especially to the rekindled discussion of the characteristics of a good language learner
- With contributions from leading researchers
Part of the book series: Educational Linguistics (EDUL, volume 2)
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This edited collection of articles illustrates more recent work on beliefs about SLA, drawing on the thinking of (educational) philosophers and (discursive) psychologists, including Dewey, Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and Potter. The data for these reports have been collected by a variety of means, e.g., narratives, diary/journal entries, interviews, completion tasks, classroom observations, and subjected to a number of novel ways of analysis. The book puts past and present research into perspective by comparing and contrasting different approaches. Both beliefs from second/foreign language learners and teachers are subject of research. The contributions provide detailed accounts of starting points, definitions, methods of data collection and analysis, main findings and implications for further research.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Key Issues in Research on Beliefs About SLA
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New Approaches to doing Research on beliefs About SLA: Focus on Students
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New Approaches to doing Research on beliefs About SLA: Focus on Students and Teachers
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beliefs About SLA
Book Subtitle: New Research Approaches
Editors: Paula Kalaja, Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos
Series Title: Educational Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4751-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4750-3Published: 01 May 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4751-0Published: 03 October 2007
Series ISSN: 1572-0292
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1656
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 249
Topics: Language Education, Psycholinguistics, Applied Linguistics