21.953, Books: Language Acquisition: Gao

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Subject: Strategic Language Learning: Gao
 

	
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Title: Strategic Language Learning 
Subtitle: The Roles of Agency and Context 
Series Title: Second Language Acquisition  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847692436 


Author: Xuesong Andy Gao

Hardback: ISBN:  9781847692443 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 109.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781847692443 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 59.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781847692436 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 27.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781847692436 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 49.95


Abstract:

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. 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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	Cambridge University Press          
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	Georgetown University Press          
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	Hodder Education          
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	John Benjamins          
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	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.eu	

	MIT Press          
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	Mouton de Gruyter          
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	Multilingual Matters          
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	Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG          
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	Palgrave Macmillan          
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	Rodopi          
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	Wiley-Blackwell          
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	International Pragmatics Assoc.
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	Linguistic Association of Finland
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	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd
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	Utrecht institute of Linguistics
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