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Perspectives on individual characteristics and foreign language education

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Perspectives on individual characteristics and foreign language education edited by Wai Meng Chan , Kwee Nyet Chin, Sunil Kumar Bhatt, Izumi Walker.
other author:	Chan, Wai Meng,
Published:	Berlin :Walter de Gruyter,[2012]
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 342 p.):ill.
Notes:	"This book brings together fifteen papers selected from CLaSIC 2010, the Fouth Centre for Language Studies International Conference, held at the Orchard Hotel in Singapore on December 2-4, 2010."--Preface.
Subject:	Second language acquisition.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781614510932
ISBN:	9781614510932 (ebook)

Perspectives on individual characteristics and foreign language education
Perspectives on individual characteristics and foreign language education [electronic resource]/edited by Wai Meng Chan , Kwee Nyet Chin, Sunil Kumar Bhatt, Izumi Walker. - Berlin :Walter de Gruyter,[2012] - 1 online resource (ix, 342 p.):ill. - Studies in Second and Foreign Language Education [SSFLE] ;6..

"This book brings together fifteen papers selected from CLaSIC 2010, the Fouth Centre for Language Studies International Conference, held at the Orchard Hotel in Singapore on December 2-4, 2010."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Individual characteristics and foreign language education: An introduction to the book / Wai Meng Chan ... [et al.] -- pt. 1. Cognitive variables. 2. Attention, awareness, and individual differences in language learning / Richard Schmidt -- 3. Language learning aptitude and foreign language learning / Karin Aguado -- 4. Understanding L2 reading: a cognitive perspective / Swathi M. Vanniarajan -- 5. The effects of motivation and proficiency on pragmatic and grammatical awareness in foreign language learning / Boonjeera Chiravate -- 6. Differentiated instruction for language and learning strategies: classroom applications / Anna Uhl Chamot -- 7. Characterising individual learners on an empirically-developed can-do system: an application of Latent rank theory / Naoki Sugino ... [et al.]

"Learner characteristics have been at the center of second language acquisition and foreign language education research in response to the puzzling questions: Why are there often large differences in second language (L2) learning achievement and why do many learners, though proficient first language speakers, not succeed in learning a L2? The papers in this book explore and challenge the three key factors in individual difference research: language aptitude, language learning strategies and motivation."--Back cover.

ISBN: 9781614510932 (ebook)

LCCN: 2012462910Subjects--Topical Terms:

179062
Second language acquisition.

LC Class. No.: aP118.2

Dewey Class. No.: 418

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