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Title Perspectives on individual characteristics and foreign language education / edited by Wai Meng Chan, Kwee Nyet Chin, Sunil Kumar Bhatt, Izumi Walker.

Publication Info. Boston ; Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, Inc., [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (342 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in second and foreign language education [SSFLE] ; 6
Studies in second and foreign language education ; 6.
Note "This book brings together fifteen papers selected from CLaSIC 2010, the Fouth Centre for Language Studies International Conference, held at the Orchard Hotel in Singapore on December 2-4, 2010."--Preface.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Individual characteristics and foreign language education: An introduction to the book -- Part 1. Cognitive variables. 2. Attention, awareness, and individual differences in language learning -- 3. Language learning aptitude and foreign language learning -- 4. Understanding L2 reading: A cognitive perspective -- 5. The effects of motivation and proficiency on pragmatic and grammatical awareness in foreign language learning -- 6. Differentiated instruction for language and learning strategies: Classroom applications -- 7. Characterising individual learners on an empirically-developed can-do system: An application of Latent Rank Theory -- Part 2. Beliefs, assumptions and attitudes. 8. Learner language in unrehearsed communication: Nurturing individual differences in the classroom -- 9. Exploring Australian Japanese language teachers' perceptions of intercultural language learning -- 10. Assumptions about learning and teaching languages amongst Australian pre-service teachers: A pedagogical process allowing reflection for teacher learning -- 11. Individual difference and context in study abroad -- Part 3. Motivation, identity and anxiety. 12. The role of stories in teacher development -- 13. Language identity as a process and second language learning -- 14. Fostering learners' affective development through process drama -- 15. Implementing a goal setting program for Efl students: The design, process and results -- 16. A study of foreign language classroom anxiety at a Taiwanese university -- Authors and their affiliations.
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Second language acquisition -- Congresses.
Second language acquisition.
Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Congresses.
Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
Communication in foreign language education -- Congresses.
Communication in foreign language education.
Applied linguistics -- Congresses.
Applied linguistics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Chan, Wai Meng, 1962- editor.
National University of Singapore. Centre for Language Studies, issuing body.
CLaSIC 2010 (Singapore)
Other Form: Print version: Perspectives on individual characteristics and foreign language education. Boston ; Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, Inc., [2012] 9781614510956 (DLC) 2012462910 (OCoLC)839663444
ISBN 9781614510932 (electronic book)
1614510938 (electronic book)
9781614510956 (cloth)
1614510954 (cloth)