Complexity In Second Language Study Emotions

Author : Richard J. Sampson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000631944

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Complexity in Second Language Study Emotions by Richard J. Sampson Pdf

This book offers a socially situated view of the emergence of emotionality for additional language (L2) learners in classroom interaction in Japan. Grounded in a complexity perspective, the author argues that emotions need to be studied as they are dynamically experienced and understood in all of their multidimensional colors by individuals (in interaction). Via practitioner research, Sampson applies a small-lens focus, interweaving experiential and discursive data, offering possibilities for exploring, interpreting and representing the lived experience of L2 study emotions in a more holistic yet detailed, social yet individual fashion. Amidst the currently expanding interest in L2 study emotions, the book presents a strong case for the benefits of locating interpretations of the emergence of L2 study emotions back into situated, dynamic, social context. Sampson’s work will be of interest to students and researchers in second language acquisition and L2 learning psychology.

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207197

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Second Language Task Complexity by Peter Robinson Pdf

Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that complex tasks should promote greater accuracy and complexity of speech and writing, as well as more interaction, and learning of information provided in the input to task performance, than simpler tasks. Implications are drawn concerning the basic pedagogic claim of the Cognition Hypothesis, that tasks should be sequenced for learners from simple to complex during syllabus design. Containing theoretical discussion of the Cognition Hypothesis, and cutting-edge empirical studies of the effects of task complexity on second language learning and performance, this book will be important reading for language teachers, graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and cognitive and educational psychology.

Author : Richard J. Sampson,Richard S. Pinner
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788923576

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Complexity Perspectives on Researching Language Learner and Teacher Psychology by Richard J. Sampson,Richard S. Pinner Pdf

This edited volume brings together both established and emerging researcher voices from around the world to illustrate how complexity perspectives might contribute to new ways of researching and understanding the psychology of language learners and teachers in situated educational contexts. Chapter authors discuss their own perspectives on researching within a complexity paradigm, exemplified by concrete and original examples from their research histories. Moreover, chapters explore research approaches to a variety of learner and teacher psychological foci of interest in SLA. Examples include: anxiety, classroom group dynamics and group-level motivation, cognition and metacognition, emotions and emotion regulation strategies, learner reticence and silence, motivation, self-concept and willingness to communicate.

Author : Richard J. Sampson
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783095902

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Complexity in Classroom Foreign Language Learning Motivation by Richard J. Sampson Pdf

This book explores how complex systems theory can contribute to the understanding of classroom language learner motivation through an extended examination of one particular, situated research project. Working from the lived experience of the participants, the study describes how action research methods were used to explore the dynamic conditions operating in a foreign language classroom in Japan. The book draws attention to the highly personalised and individual, yet equally co-formed nature of classroom foreign language learning motivation and to the importance of agency and emotions in language learning. It presents an extended illustration of the applicability of complex systems theory for research design and process in SLA and its narrative approach shines light upon the evolving nature of research and role of the researcher. The study will be a valuable resource for practitioners, researchers and postgraduate students interested in classroom language teaching and learning, especially those with a focus on motivation among learners.

Author : Carmen Amerstorfer,Max von Blanckenburg
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823304784

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Activating and Engaging Learners and Teachers by Carmen Amerstorfer,Max von Blanckenburg Pdf

This book offers a nuanced, integrated understanding of EFL learning and instruction and investigates both learner and teacher perspectives on four thematically interconnected parts. Part I encompasses chapters on psychological aspects related to teaching and learning and presents the latest research on positive language education, teacher empathy, and well-being. Part II deals with EFL teaching methodology, specifically related to teaching pronunciation, language assessment, peer response, and strategy instruction. Part III addresses aspects of cultural learning including inter- and transculturality, digital citizenship, global learning, and cosmopolitanism. Part IV concerns teaching with literary texts, for instance, to reflect on social and political discourse, facilitate empowerment, imagine utopian or dystopian futures, and to bring non-Western narratives into language classrooms.

Author : Jianfen Wang,Junqing (Jessie) Jia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000646832

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Performed Culture in Action to Teach Chinese as a Foreign Language by Jianfen Wang,Junqing (Jessie) Jia Pdf

This volume explores best practices in implementing the Performed Culture Approach (PCA) in teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). Offering a range of chapters that demonstrate how PCA has been successfully applied to curriculum, instructional design, and assessment in CFL programs and classrooms at various levels, this text shows how PCA’s culture-focused paradigm differs fundamentally from the general communicative language teaching (CLT) framework and highlights how it can inspire innovative methods to better support learners’ ability to navigate target culture and overcome communication barriers. Additional applications of PCA in the development of learner identity, intercultural competence, autonomy, and motivation are also considered. Bridging theoretical innovations and the practice of curriculum design and implementation, this work will be of value to researchers, teacher trainers, and graduate students interested in Chinese teaching and learning, especially those with an interest in incorporating performance into foreign language curriculums with the goal of integrating language and culture.

Author : Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319754383

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Emotions in Second Language Teaching by Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo Pdf

This edited volume explores the multifaceted nature of teacher emotions, presenting current research from different approaches and perspectives, focused towards the second language classroom. Twenty three chapters by well-known scholars from the applied linguistics, TESOL and educational psychology fields provide the reader with a holistic picture of teacher emotions, making this collection a significant contribution to the field of second language teaching. Given the emotional nature of teaching, the book explores a number of key issues or dimensions of L2 teachers’ emotions that were until now rarely considered. The contributions present the views of a select group of applied linguistic researchers and L2 teacher educators from around the world. This international perspective makes the book essential reading for both L2 teachers and teacher educators.

Author : Luis Javier Pentón Herrera,Gilda Martínez-Alba,Ethan Trinh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000783957

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Teacher Well-Being in English Language Teaching by Luis Javier Pentón Herrera,Gilda Martínez-Alba,Ethan Trinh Pdf

This edited volume brings the important topic of teacher well-being to the fore, presenting a range of high quality and cutting-edge contributions that illuminate, advance and educate readers on the challenges and criticality of achieving teacher well-being in English language teaching (ELT). Taking Sarah Mercer’s call for action to make teacher well-being a priority in the ELT field, and adopting an ecological perspective reflective of the stance that teacher well-being is a societal duty and not a personal responsibility, the contributors present theoretically and methodologically innovative research studies from all around the world. The term ‘teacher’ is used to refer to those who deliver English instruction in a variety of formal and informal educational settings and at different levels including K-12 schools, adult education, higher education, teacher education programs, and in community organizations. Chapters offer clear implications for research and practice, and explore effective practices and interventions that can contribute to the improvement of teacher well-being overall. Addressing a profession which is not only characterized as being filled with high levels of stress, but delving into specific challenges around ELT in particular, the authors crucially speak to themes around the additional emotional investment and labor which come with being an English language teacher. As such, it will appeal to academics and researchers in the field of English language teaching, including scholar-practitioners, and teacher educators.

Author : Alex Housen,Folkert Kuiken,Ineke Vedder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789027213051

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Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency by Alex Housen,Folkert Kuiken,Ineke Vedder Pdf

Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. However, the larger picture in this field of research is often obscured by the breadth of scope, multiple objectives and lack of clarity as to how complexity, accuracy and fluency should be defined, operationalized and measured. The present volume showcases current research on CAF by bringing together eleven contributions from renowned international researchers in the field. These contributions not only add to the body of empirical knowledge about L2 use and L2 development by bringing new research findings to light but they also address fundamental theoretical and methodological issues by responding to questions about the nature, manifestation, development and assessment of CAF as multifaceted constructs. Collectively, the chapters in this book illustrate the converging and sometimes diverging approaches that different disciplines bring to CAF research.

Author : Ágnes Albert
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031202216

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Investigating the Role of Affective Factors in Second Language Learning Tasks by Ágnes Albert Pdf

This book provides an overview of affective individual variables that are considered relevant for second language learning and outlines a novel approach to researching them. In the first part of the book, the most prominent concepts and theories in connection with affective individual variables and tasks are discussed, followed by a literature review of the most significant empirical studies conducted on the reviewed individual variables with the help of tasks. The second part of the monograph reports the findings of a research project which investigated the relationships of motivation, emotions, flow experiences, and self-efficacy beliefs of secondary school students studying English in Hungary. These constructs are examined at two levels: in connection with learners’ English classes in general and in connection with a particular language task, thus linking task performance measures to specific affective states experienced while performing a task and their general trait versions reported in connection with the language classes. Teacher interviews provide further insights into the language tasks used by the teachers of the students taking part in the study and their affective correlates. The book offers multi-level interpretations of the results, puts forward pedagogical implications, and delineates further research directions.

Author : Christina Gkonou,Jean-Marc Dewaele,Jim King
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788928359

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The Emotional Rollercoaster of Language Teaching by Christina Gkonou,Jean-Marc Dewaele,Jim King Pdf

This book focuses on the emotional complexity of language teaching and how the diverse emotions that teachers experience while teaching are shaped and function. The book is based on the premise that teaching is not just about the transmission of academic knowledge but also about inspiring students, building rapport with them, creating relationships based on empathy and trust, being patient and most importantly controlling one’s own emotions and being able to influence students’ emotions in a positive way. The book covers a range of emotion-related topics on both positive and negative emotions which are relevant to language teaching including emotional labour, burnout, emotion regulation, resilience, emotional intelligence and wellbeing among others. These topics are studied within a wide range of contexts such as teacher education programmes, tertiary education, CLIL and action research settings, and primary and secondary schools across different countries. The book will appeal to any student, researcher, teacher or policymaker who is interested in research on the psychological aspects of foreign language teaching.

Author : Shaofeng Li
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027246950

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Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching by Shaofeng Li Pdf

This volume consists of a collection of empirical studies and research syntheses investigating the role of individual difference (ID) variables in task-based language teaching (TBLT)—a pedagogical approach that emphasizes the importance of the performance of meaning-oriented tasks in facilitating second language learning. TBLT is subject to learner-external as well as learner-internal factors, with the former referring to task- and context-related factors, and the latter to ID factors pertaining to learner traits, dispositions, or propensities. To date, the research has focused primarily on learner-external factors, and there has been insufficient and unsystematic research on individual difference factors. This volume brings centre stage this important but under-researched dimension by means of a comprehensive, in-depth examination of the role of key ID factors in TBLT. The volume integrates theory, research, and pedagogy by spelling out the mechanism through which IDs influence learning attainment, behaviours, and processes, examining evidence for theoretical claims, and discussing ways to apply research findings and cater to individual differences in the task-based classroom.

Author : Mathea Simons,Tom F.H. Smits
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000200461

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Language Education and Emotions by Mathea Simons,Tom F.H. Smits Pdf

Language Education and Emotions presents innovative, empirical research into the influence of emotions and affective factors in language education, both in L1 and in foreign language education. It offers a comprehensive overview of studies authored and co-authored by researchers from all over the world. The volume opens and ends with "backbone" contributions by two of the discipline’s most reputed scholars: Jane Arnold (Spain) and Jean-Marc Dewaele (United Kingdom). This book broadens our understanding of emotions, including well-known concepts such as foreign language anxiety as well as addressing the emotions that have only recently received scientific attention, driven by the positive psychology movement. Chapters explore emotions from the perspective of the language learner and the language teacher, and in relation to educational processes. A number of contributions deal with traditional, school-based contexts, whereas others study new settings of foreign language education such as migration. The book paints a picture of the broad scale of approaches used to study this topic and offers new and relevant insights for the field of language education and emotions. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the field of language education, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics.

Author : Dingfang Shu,Jinfen Xu,Hui Zhang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832542170

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Second or foreign language learning and cognitive development by Dingfang Shu,Jinfen Xu,Hui Zhang Pdf

Author : Ana Canales,Susana Leralta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Identity (Psychology) in education
ISBN : 1800796498

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Emotion and Identity in Second Language Learning by Ana Canales,Susana Leralta Pdf

This book brings together 18 theoretical and empirical chapters that analyze the role of emotion (expression, perception, processing) and identity (notions and representations, construction, conflict) in the process of learning a second language. Studies on the differences in emotionality in L1 and L2 agree that in L2 there is an alteration that, in many cases, manifests itself as a decrease in the affective load, which can lead to a certain indifference to the emotional content transmitted and to a lesser involvement in communication. It is also known that emotion plays a fundamental role in the construction of identity in a second language, in the shaping of the self that feels and communicates, and in the ability to cope with the learning process. Most of the studies have focused on the understanding of these two dimensions in balanced bilingual speakers, but there is little evidence on their functioning in speakers with otherdegrees of proficiency (the case of second language learners) and on their role in the learning process. Advancing in this knowledge is fundamental for the improvement of everything related to second language acquisition. We need new and innovate approaches approaches that lead to more effective programs, increased interest in language learning and the consolidation of multilingual societies.