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Author : Carol Griffiths
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521718141
This book considers the strategies used by successful language learners, in the light of current thinking and research.
Author : Neil Naiman
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853593133
This book is one of the most influential research studies on Second Language Learning ever undertaken. The Good Language Learner addresses key problems for teachers about the strategies that successful learners use, the attitudes they show to the language they are learning, the nature of their most successful experiences and similar issues. It is based on the direct experience of a wide range of learners. It enables us to recognise the combined roles of fluency activity and natural communication on the one hand, and accuracy activity with formal understanding of the language system and the mistakes that one is liable to make as a learner, on the other hand. Few works of empirical analysis in language teaching have had so much influence, and this edition should be an essential component of any teacher's library in local authority centres, schools, teacher education institutions, and the home library of language teachers.
Author : Joan Rubin,Irene Thompson
Publisher : Heinle & Heinle Pub
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0838447341
Describes the goals of foreign language study, discusses the nature of language, and recommends strategies for studying
Author : N. Naiman,M. Fröhlich,Hans Heinrich Stern,Institut d'études pédagogiques de l'Ontario. Department of Curriculum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:77158348
Author : Zoltán Dörnyei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135704780
Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less effort--lies in various learner attributes such as personality traits, motivation, or language aptitude. In psychology, these attributes have traditionally been called "individual differences." The scope of individual learner differences is broad--ranging from creativity to learner styles and anxiety--yet there is no current, comprehensive, and unified volume that provides an overview of the considerable amount of research conducted on various language learner differences, until now. Each chapter in this new volume focuses on a different individual difference variable. Besides a review of the relevant second language literature, Zoltán Dörnyei presents a concise overview of the psychological research involving each topic. A key concern for the author has been to define the various learner factors as measurable constructs and therefore the discussion includes a summary of the most famous tests and questionnaires in each domain. A wide range of readers will benefit from this book--students in linguistics, applied linguistics, modern languages, and psychology programs; second language teachers participating in in-service training courses; and researchers in second language acquisition and psychology.
Author : Gabriel Wyner
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780385348102
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.
Author : Steve Kaufmann
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : 9781420873290
The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey. It is now a cliché that the world is a smaller place. We think nothing of jumping on a plane to travel to another country or continent. The most exotic locations are now destinations for mass tourism. Small business people are dealing across frontiers and language barriers like never before. The Internet brings different languages and cultures to our finger-tips. English, the hybrid language of an island at the western extremity of Europe seems to have an unrivalled position as an international medium of communication. But historically periods of cultural and economic domination have never lasted forever. Do we not lose something by relying on the wide spread use of English rather than discovering other languages and cultures? As citizens of this shrunken world, would we not be better off if we were able to speak a few languages other than our own? The answer is obviously yes. Certainly Steve Kaufmann thinks so, and in his busy life as a diplomat and businessman he managed to learn to speak nine languages fluently and observe first hand some of the dominant cultures of Europe and Asia. Why do not more people do the same? In his book The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey, Steve offers some answers. Steve feels anyone can learn a language if they want to. He points out some of the obstacles that hold people back. Drawing on his adventures in Europe and Asia, as a student and businessman, he describes the rewards that come from knowing languages. He relates his evolution as a language learner, abroad and back in his native Canada and explains the kind of attitude that will enable others to achieve second language fluency. Many people have taken on the challenge of language learning but have been frustrated by their lack of success. This book offers detailed advice on the kind of study practices that will achieve language breakthroughs. Steve has developed a language learning system available online at: www.thelinguist.com.
Author : Åsta Haukås,Camilla Bjørke,Magne Dypedahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351049122
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351049139, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume offers an exhaustive look at the latest research on metacognition in language learning and teaching. While other works have explored certain notions of metacognition in language learning and teaching, this book, divided into theoretical and empirical chapters, looks at metacognition from a variety of perspectives, including metalinguistic and multilingual awareness, and language learning and teaching in L2 and L3 settings, and explores a range of studies from around the world. This allows the volume to highlight a diverse set of methodological approaches, including blogging, screen recording software, automatic translation programs, language corpora, classroom interventions, and interviews, and subsequently, to demonstrate the value of metacognition research and how insights from such findings can contribute to a greater understanding of language learning and language teaching processes more generally. This innovative collection is an essential resource for students and scholars in language teaching pedagogy, and applied linguistics.
Author : Suzanne Graham
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853593796
This book investigates some of the learning processes of students of French and German as they begin language learning at an advanced level, a stage which is frequently problematic. By looking at the learning strategies employed by both successful and less successful language students, the author elucidates some of the key cognitive and affective processes which facilitate advanced level language learning. The implications of this for the classroom are discussed in detail, leading to practical recommendations for learning and teaching strategies. A central theme is the need to teach explicitly the proficient use of learning strategies, and suggestions are made as to how this may be achieved in the language classroom.
Author : Kat— Lomb
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9781606437063
KAT LOMB (1909-2003) was one of the great polyglots of the 20th century. A translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world, Lomb worked in 16 languages for state and business concerns in her native Hungary. She achieved further fame by writing books on languages, interpreting, and polyglots. Polyglot: How I Learn Languages, first published in 1970, is a collection of anecdotes and reflections on language learning. Because Dr. Lomb learned her languages as an adult, after getting a PhD in chemistry, the methods she used will be of particular interest to adult learners who want to master a foreign language.
Author : K. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230523470
Understanding what constitutes expertise in language learning and teaching is important for theoretical reasons related to psycholinguistic, and applied linguistic, enquiry. It also has many significant applications in practice, particularly in relation to the training and practice of language teachers and improvements in students' strategies of learning. In this volume, methodologies for establishing what constitutes expert practice are discussed and the contributions address the fields of listening, reading, writing, speaking and communication strategies, looking at common characteristics of the 'expert teacher' and the 'expert learner'.
Author : Chris Lonsdale
Publisher : The Third Ear
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789889888701
You Can Learn Any Language -- Are you hesitating to learn a new language because you've heard it's difficult? Or are you trying right now but finding it harder than you imagined? What if you could become fluent in a new language in a very short period of time -- just months, or maybe even weeks? You can learn any new language quickly and easily. It doesn't require pain or frustration. It can be fun, exciting and enlightening. Of course, to have this experience you do need to know a few things. You need to find and use your hidden talent -- something we call the Third Ear. The Third Ear takes you step by step along a path to think about language learning in totally new ways. Ways that help you realise you already know how to learn any language. You just needed to be reminded.
Author : A. D. Cohen,Ernesto Macaro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780194423052
Provides a unique and timely re-examination of key issues such as strategies in context, strategy instruction, and strategy research methods by numerous experts in the field. Offers an invaluable overview of what is known from empirical research about listening, reading, speaking, writing, vocabulary, and grammar strategies. Proposes a clear and focused research agenda for the next decades. Research into language learner strategies has the fundamental goal of improving the teaching and learning of second languages. This book explores the notion that the reason some learners of second languages excel and others struggle lies in what the learners themselves do-the strategies they bring to language learning and to language use.
Author : Elaine Tarone,George Yule
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032497849
The authors describe ideas, techniques, and procedures which will enable the practising language teacher to better identify the local needs of particular groups of second language learners, and then work towards meeting those needs. It is full of illustrative examples and practical exerciseswhich teachers can adapt and use in their own classrooms.
Author : Rebecca L. Oxford
Publisher : Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824819101
