Language Learning: Insights for Learners, Teachers, and Researchers

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Cohen, Andrew D.

Words, Language & Grammar

Newbury House Publishers

Teaching and Learning Pragmatics

An understanding of sociocultural context is crucial in second language learning-yet developing this awareness often poses a real challenge to the typical language learner. This book is a language teachers' guide that focuses on how to teach socially and culturally preferred language for effective intercultural communication. Moving beyond a purely theoretical approach to pragmatics, the volume offers practical advice to teachers, with hands-on classroom tasks included in every chapter. Readers will be able to: - Understand the link between language use, linguacultural diversity, and multilingual identity - Identify possible causes of learner errors and choices in intercultural communication - Understand applied linguistics theories that support culturally sensitive classroom practices - Develop a pragmatics-focused instructional component, classroom-based assessments, and curricula - Help learners to become more strategic about their learning and performance of speech acts - Incorporate technology into their approach to teaching pragmatics This book aims to close the gap between what research in pragmatics has found and how language is generally taught today. It will be of interest to all language teachers, graduate students in language teaching and linguistics, teacher educators, and developers of materials for teaching language.

Ishihara, Noriko

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language explores the topic of learner strategies - the ways in which language learners engage with the process of learning and communicating in a new language. The introduction to the book sets out the main theoretical issues, distinguishing language learning from language use strategies, and describing the main research methods for their investigation. The author presents innovative research linking the use of task-specific strategies with language performance. The volume then presents empirical research investigating the languages multilinguals select for their verbalized thoughts during language learning and language use. Finally, the author presents empirical research focusing on the strategies learners use in language test-taking contexts. The volume is intended primarily for language teachers and researchers, as well as for administrators of second language programs. It is also highly suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of applied linguistics and will be of interest to foreign language students, stimulating them to reflect on their strategies for learning and using a second language. The chapters present questions and raise areas for further discussion and study, making the book suitable for those new to the field. At the same time, the provision of important new research will appeal to those with more advanced knowledge in the field.

Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language (Applied Linguistics and Language Study)

Longman Pub. Group

Heinle & Heinle Pub

Describing Bilingual Education Classrooms: The Role of the Teacher in Evaluation

Natl Clearinghouse for

Aimed at students who want to make the most of their study abroad experience, this flexible and user-friendly guide helps students identify and use a wide variety of language and culture learning strategies. The Guide begins with three inventories designed to help students be more aware of how they currently learn language and culture. The following sections of the guide provide students with tools and creative activities that they can use to enhance their favored learning strategies and try out unfamiliar ones. Students can use this guide as they prepare for study abroad, during their experience, and once they return.

Maximizing Study Abroad: A Students' Guide to Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use

Paige, R. Michael

Kappler, Barbara

Chi, Julie C.

Lassegard, James P.

Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)

University of Minnesota Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition

Created as a companion to Maximizing Study Abroad: A Students’ Guide to Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use, this guide provides language teachers and study abroad professionals with a both a solid understanding of language and culture learning theory and concrete ways to use this knowledge to support students in their skill development. This instructional guide is written with the busy professional in mind and features a “tool kit” of more than 100 hands-on activities that are ready for use in pre-departure, in-country, and re-entry initiatives for study abroad programs, as well as in language classroom at home and abroad. With its creative activities, practitioner-friendly theory sections, teacher-tested tools, and professional advice, this user-friendly guide will allow you to quickly and easily integrate or adapt then to meet the unique needs of your classroom or study abroad program.

Maximizing Study Abroad: An Instructional Guide to Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use

Kappler Mikk, Barbara

Teaching and Learning Pragmatics: Where Language and Culture Meet

An understanding of sociocultural context is crucial in second language learning – yet developing this awareness often poses a real challenge to the typical language learner. 
This book is a practical language teachers’ guide that focuses on how to teach socially and culturally appropriate language for effective communication. Moving beyond a purely theoretical approach to pragmatics, the volume offers practical advice to teachers, with hands-on classroom tasks included in every chapter. 
Readers will be able to: 
· Identify possible causes of learner errors and choices in cross-cultural communication
· Understand second language acquisition theories that support their classroom practices
· Develop a pragmatics-focused instructional component, classroom-based assessments, and curricula 
· Help learners to become more strategic about their learning and performance of speech acts
· Incorporate technology into their approach to teaching pragmatics
This book aims to close the gap between what research in pragmatics has found and how language is generally taught today. It will be of interest to all language teachers, graduate students in language teaching and linguistics, teacher educators, and developers of materials for teaching language.

Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language examines what it takes to achieve long-term success in languages beyond the first language. Distinguishing language learning from language-use strategies, Andrew D. Cohen disentangles a morass of terminology to help the reader see what language strategies are and how they can enhance performance. Particular areas of research examined in the book include: - links between the use of task-specific strategies and language performance  - how multilinguals verbalise their thoughts during language learning and use strategies that learners use in test-taking contexts In this fully revised and substantially rewritten second edition, every chapter has been reworked, with material either updated or replaced. Entirely new material has also been developed based on examples of specific strategies supplied by actual learners, mostly drawn from a website featuring these strategies in the learning of Spanish grammar.Strategies in Learning and Using a Second language will be an invaluable resource for language teachers and researchers, as well as for administrators of second language programmes and for students of applied linguistics.

Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language

Longman

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