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Strategic language learning [[electronic resource] ] : the roles of agency and context / / Xuesong (Andy) Gao



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Autore: Gao Xuesong Visualizza persona
Titolo: Strategic language learning [[electronic resource] ] : the roles of agency and context / / Xuesong (Andy) Gao Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
Disciplina: 420.71/151
Soggetto topico: English language - Study and teaching (Higher) - Chinese speakers
English language - Study and teaching (Higher) - China
Second language acquisition - Methodology
English language - Acquisition - Methodology
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Towards 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 -- Appendix 1: Interview Guide for the Arriving Mainland Chinese Undergraduates -- Appendix 2: The Exit Interview Guide for Mainland Chinese Undergraduates -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Strategic language learning  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-84769-391-1
1-282-65708-9
9786612657085
1-84769-245-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456556203321
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Serie: Second language acquisition.