Beliefs About SLA (eBook, PDF)

New Research Approaches
Redaktion: Kalaja, P.; Ferreira Barcelos, A. M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection of articles illustrates recent work on beliefs about second language acquisition, drawing on the thinking of educational philosophers and discursive psychologists including Dewey, Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and Potter. Coverage extends to beliefs held by second/foreign language learners and as well as teachers. The book includes detailed accounts of starting points, definitions, methods of data collection and analysis, main findings and implications for further research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 249
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402047510
• Artikelnr.: 53086512

Autorenporträt

P. Kalaja, University of Jyväskylä, Finland / A.M. Ferreira Barcelos, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil

Inhaltsangabe

Key Issues in Research on Beliefs About SLA.- Researching Beliefs About SLA: A Critical Review.- New Approaches to doing Research on beliefs About SLA: Focus on Students.- Evidence of Emergent Beliefs of a Second Language Learner: A Case Study.- A Sociocultural Approach to Young Language Learners' Belief about Language Learning.- Research on Students' Beliefs about SLA within a Discursive Approach.- Metaphor and the Subjective Construction of Beliefs.- New Approaches to doing Research on beliefs About SLA: Focus on Students and Teachers.- Beliefs in Dialogue: A Bakhtinian View.- A Case Study: Beliefs and Metaphors of a Japanese Teacher of English.- Teachers' and Students' Beliefs within a Deweyan Framework: Conflict and Influence.- The Social Construction of Beliefs in the Language Classroom.- Conclusion: Exploring Possibilities for Future Research on Beliefs about SLA.