30.426, Books: English Language Learners’ Socially Constructed Motives and Interactional Moves: Williams

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Subject: 30.426, Books: English Language Learners’ Socially Constructed Motives and Interactional Moves: Williams

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Subject: English Language Learners’ Socially Constructed Motives and Interactional Moves: Williams

 


Title: English Language Learners’ Socially Constructed Motives and
Interactional Moves 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: https://cambridgescholars.com/english-language-learners-socially-constructed-motives-and-interactional-moves/ 


Author: Thomas A. Williams

Hardback: ISBN:  9781527509160 Pages: 396 Price: U.K. £ 68.99


Abstract:

This book explores the potential for task-based language learning and teaching
(TBLT) within a particular context, specifically Hungary, by investigating
beliefs among Hungarian university students about English (and other foreign)
language teaching. It also examines the nature of these learners’ task-based
spoken interaction and explores their socioculturally determined choices in
that regard. It finds that, despite much exposure to traditional classroom
practices, the learners are generally open to TBLT, make various (sometimes
surprising) contributions in performing speaking tasks, and display a tendency
toward collaboration in spoken interaction over communication breakdowns. The
book offers both universal and culture-specific explanations for this
tendency. The findings detailed here have implications for English (and other
foreign/second) language teaching which may be of interest to researchers,
practitioners, and teacher educators, not only in Hungary, Central Europe, and
similar educational contexts, but anywhere that teachers and learners are
struggling to improve foreign and second language development.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=131425




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