Individual differences and instructed language learning / edited by Peter Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robinson, Peter, 1956-

Series:

Language learning and language teaching ; v. 2.

Language learning and language teaching, 1569-9471 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Individual differences.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xi, 385 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Second language learners differ in how successfully they adapt to, and profit from, instruction. This book aims to show that adaptation to L2 instruction, and subsequent L2 learning, is a result of the interaction between learner characteristics and learning contexts. Describing and explaining these interactions is fundamentally important to theories of instructed SLA, and for effective L2 pedagogy. This collection is the first to explore this important issue in contemporary task-based, immersion, and communicative pedagogic settings. In the first section, leading experts in individual differences research describe recent advances in theories of intelligence, L2 aptitude, motivation, anxiety and emotion, and the relationship of native language abilities to L2 learning. In the second section, these theoretical insights are applied to empirical studies of individual differences-treatment interactions in classroom learning, experimental studies of the effects of focus on form and incidental learning, and studies of naturalistic versus instructed SLA.

Contents:

Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Contributors

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Section 1: Theoretical Issues

Chapter 2: The theory of successful intelligence and its implications for language-aptitude testing

Chapter 3: Motivation, anxiety and emotion in second language acquisition

Chapter 4: Theorising and updating aptitude

Chapter 5: Foreign language acquisition and language-based learning disabilities

Chapter 6: Learning conditions, aptitude complexes, and SLA

Section 2: Empirical Studies

Chapter 7: The motivational basis of language learning tasks

Chapter 8: The role of learners' language analytic ability in the communicative classroom

Chapter 9: Individual differences in working memory, noticing of interactional feedback and L2 development

Chapter 10: Effects of individual differences in intelligence, aptitude and working memory on adult incidental SLA

Chapter 11: Aptitude-exposure interaction effects on Wh-movement violation detection by pre-and-post-critical period Japanese bilinguals

Chapter 12: Age, aptitude, and second language learning on a bilingual exchange

References

Index

Language Learning &amp

Language Teaching.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-371) and index.

ISBN:

9786612254574

9781282254572

128225457X

9789027216939

9027216932

9780585462387

0585462380

9789027297518

9027297517

OCLC:

567939789