Gao Strategic Language Learning

The Roles of Agency and Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84769-391-4
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 49, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Second Language Acquisition

This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates’ language learning experiences in an English medium university in a multilingual setting with a focus on their strategic language learning efforts. This book examines the issue as to what extent language learners’ strategic learning efforts depend on their ‘choice’, if ‘the element of choice’ is the defining characteristic of language learners’ strategic learning behaviour. The inquiry, using a qualitative and ethnographic research approach, reveals dynamic interaction between learners’ agency and contextual conditions underlying the participants’ strategic learning process. Such understanding informs pedagogical efforts to foster individual learners’ capacity for strategic learning and their capacities in opening up and sustaining a social learning space for exercising their strategic learning capacity or utilizing their strategic learning knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gao, Xuesong (Andy)

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 A Sociocultural Perspective on Strategic Learning

Chapter 3 Mainland Chinese Students’ Migration to Hong Kong

Chapter 4 On the Chinese Mainland

Chapter 5 Learning English in Hong Kong

Chapter 6 Four Case Studies

Chapter 7 Agency and Context in Strategic Learning

Über Autor(innen)

Gao, Xuesong (Andy)
Xuesong (Andy) Gao is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales. His current research interests are in the areas of learner autonomy, language learning narratives, language education policy, and language teacher education. He is co-editor of System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics.

Xuesong (Andy) Gao is an Associate Professor in the Division of English Language Education, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.