Tammy Gregersen, Peter D Macintyre

Optimizing Language Learners' Nonverbal Behavior

From Tenet to Technique

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book highlights the pivotal role that nonverbal behavior plays in target language communication, affect and cognition. It integrates research tenets and video demonstrations of nonverbal behavior with structured activities that will guide teachers and learners to capitalize on the nonverbal means at their disposal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9781783097364
• ISBN-10: 1783097361
• Artikelnr.: 46607176

Autorenporträt

Tammy Gregersen is Professor of TESOL at the University of Northern Iowa, USA. Her research interests include language teacher education, individual differences, positive psychology, nonverbal communication, emotion and affect. She is the co-author (with Peter D. MacIntyre) of Capitalizing on Language Learners' Individuality (2014) and co-editor (with Peter D. MacIntyre and Sarah Mercer) of Positive Psychology in SLA (2016). Peter D. MacIntyre is Professor of Psychology at Cape Breton University, Canada. He has published widely on the themes of emotion, motivation and cognition and is the co-editor (with Zoltán Dörnyei and Alastair Henry) of Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning (2014).