Perspectives on Individual Characteristics and Foreign Language Education / / ed. by Wai Meng Chan, Kwee Nyet Chin, Izumi Walker, Sunil Bhatt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Aguado, Karin,; Aoki, Naoko,; Benson, Phil,; Bhatt, Sunil Kumar,; Chamot, Anna Uhl,; Chan, Wai Meng,; Chang, Ming,; Chang, Shan-mao,; Chin, Kwee Nyet,; Chiravate, Boonjeera,; Harbon, Lesley Anne,; Huang, Yi-ting,; Mahoney, Caroline,; Nakano, Michiko,; Ohba, Hiromasa,; Schmidt, Richard,; Shimizu, Yuko,; Shojima, Kojiro,; Sugino, Naoki,; Tarone, Elaine,; Vanniarajan, Swathi M.,; Walker, Izumi,; Wu, Hsiu-chen,; Yamakawa, Kenichi,; Zhou, Minglang,
• HerausgeberIn: Bhatt, Sunil,; Chan, Wai Meng,; Chin, Kwee Nyet,; Walker, Izumi,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Second and Foreign Language Education [SSFLE] , 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Chapter 1. Individual characteristics and foreign language education: An introduction to the book --; Part 1: Cognitive variables --; Chapter 2. Attention, awareness, and individual differences in language learning --; Chapter 3. Language learning aptitude and foreign language learning --; Chapter 4. Understanding L2 reading: A cognitive perspective --; Chapter 5. The effects of motivation and proficiency on pragmatic and grammatical awareness in foreign language learning --; Chapter 6. Differentiated instruction for language and learning strategies: Classroom applications --; Chapter 7. Characterising individual learners on an empirically-developed can-do system: An application of Latent Rank Theory --; Part 2: Beliefs, assumptions and attitudes --; Chapter 8. Learner language in unrehearsed communication: Nurturing individual differences in the classroom --; Chapter 9. Exploring Australian Japanese language teachers’ perceptions of intercultural language learning --; Chapter 10. Assumptions about learning and teaching languages amongst Australian pre-service teachers: A pedagogical process allowing reflection for teacher learning --; Chapter 11. Individual difference and context in study abroad --; Part 3: Motivation, identity and anxiety --; Chapter 12. The role of stories in teacher development --; Chapter 13. Language identity as a process and second language learning --; Chapter 14. Fostering learners’ affective development through process drama --; Chapter 15 Implementing a goal setting program for EFL students: The design, process and results --; Chapter 16. A study of foreign language classroom anxiety at a Taiwanese university --; Authors and their affiliations --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781614510932; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110288995; 9783110288902; 9783110288896
• ISSN: 2192-0982
• DOI: 10.1515/9781614510932
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Wai Meng Chan, Kwee Nyet Chin, Izumi Walker, Sunil Bhatt.

Learner characteristics have been at the center of second language acquisition and foreign language education research in response to the puzzling questions: Why are there often large differences in second language (L2) learning achievement and why do many learners, though proficient first language speakers, not succeed in learning a L2? The papers in this book explore and challenge the three key factors in individual difference research: language aptitude, language learning strategies and motivation.