Research Catalog

Title

The applied linguistic individual : sociocultural approaches to identity, agency and autonomy / edited by Phil Benson and Lucy Cooker.

Publication

Bristol, CT : Equinox Pub., 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Benson, Phil, 1955-
• Cooker, Lucy, 1970-

Description

xii, 211 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in applied linguistics

Subject

• Applied linguistics > Research
• Autonomy (Psychology) > Cross-cultural studies
• Literacy > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies
• Language and languages > Study and teaching
• Sociolinguistics > Research
• Language and languages > Study and teaching
• Fremdsprachenlernen
• Selbstgesteuertes Lernen

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: I.INTRODUCTION -- 1.The social and the individual in Applied Linguistics research / Lucy Cooker -- II.THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 2.Sociocultural Theory and the dialectics of L2 learner autonomy/agency / James P. Lantolf -- 3.The struggle to belong: individual language learners in Situated Learning Theory / Martin Lamb -- 4.Individuality, imagination and community in a globalizing world: an Asian EFL perspective / Tomoko Yashima -- 5.Chaos and the complexity of second language acquisition / Vera Menezes -- 6.Drifting in and out of view: autonomy and the social individual / Phil Benson -- III.THE INDIVIDUAL IN RESEARCH -- 7.A social-ecological exploration of autonomy, beliefs and identity / Jane Kehrwald -- 8.Teenagers making sense of their foreign language practices: individual accounts indexing social discourses / Tarja Nikula -- 9.Individuality in L2 identity construction: the stories of two Chinese learners of English / Mingyue (Michelle) Gu -- 10.The ideal sexual self: the motivational investments of Japanese gay male learners of English / Ashley R. Moore -- 11.Using Dynamic Systems/Complexity Theory in linguistic data analysis: a language ecology approach to the study of individual and social process / Anne Whiteside -- 12.A tale of two teachers: teacher identity and the care of the self in an era of accountability / Matthew Clarke -- IV.CONCLUSION -- 13.The Applied Linguistic individual: gaining perspective / Lucy Cooker.

ISBN

• 9781908049384
• 1908049383
• 9781908049391 (pbk.)
• 1908049391 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012011567

OCLC

• 781848516
• SCSB-11852959

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library