Investigating the role of affective factors in second language learning tasks / Ágnes Albert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albert, Ágnes, author.

Series:

Second language learning and teaching 2193-7656

Second language learning and teaching, 2193-7656

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 187 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2022]

Summary:

This book provides an overview of affective individual variables that are considered relevant for second language learning and outlines a novel approach to researching them. In the first part of the book, the most prominent concepts and theories in connection with affective individual variables and tasks are discussed, followed by a literature review of the most significant empirical studies conducted on the reviewed individual variables with the help of tasks. The second part of the monograph reports the findings of a research project which investigated the relationships of motivation, emotions, flow experiences, and self-efficacy beliefs of secondary school students studying English in Hungary. These constructs are examined at two levels: in connection with learners English classes in general and in connection with a particular language task, thus linking task performance measures to specific affective states experienced while performing a task and their general trait versions reported in connection with the language classes. Teacher interviews provide further insights into the language tasks used by the teachers of the students taking part in the study and their affective correlates. The book offers multi-level interpretations of the results, puts forward pedagogical implications, and delineates further research directions. .

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Importance of affective individual differences in language learning

Chapter 3. Language tasks

Chapter 4. Previous research on affective determinants of language task performance

Chapter 5. Investigating affective aspects of language learning using task: Methods

Chapter 6. Results and discussion of the classroom-related investigations

Chapter 7. Results and discussion of the task-related investigations

Chapter 8. Pedagogical Implications and future directions References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 3, 2023).

ISBN:

9783031202216

303120221X

OCLC:

1354273191

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.