Social Spaces for Language Learning : Stories from the L-café / by Garold Murray ; edited by N. Fujishima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Garold., Author.

Contributor:

Fujishima, N., Editor.

Series:

Palgrave pivot.

Palgrave pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic languages.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Education.

Germanic Languages.

Language Teaching and Learning.

Language Education.

Local Subjects:

Germanic Languages.

Language Teaching and Learning.

Education.

Language Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 154 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2016.

Summary:

Social spaces for language learning, places where learners can come together in order to learn with and from each other, have an important role to play in foreign language acquisition and L2 identity development. In this book, sixteen students, teachers and administrators tell how they experience the L-café, a social language learning space located on the campus of a Japanese university. As part of a narrative inquiry, their unabridged stories are framed by background information on the study and an in-depth analysis informed by theories of space and place, and complex dynamic systems. Addressing practical as well as theoretical concerns, this book provides advice for language professionals developing and managing social language learning spaces, pedagogical insights for teachers exploring their role in out-of-class learning, and direction for researchers examining the various facets of language learning beyond the classroom.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Notes on Contributors

1 Exploring a Social Space for Language Learning

Part I Administrators' Perspectives

2 Creating the L-café: An Administrator's Standpoint

3 Five Years at the L-café: The Secret of Its Success

4 Management of L-café

Part II Teachers' Perspectives

5 What I Learned from Working at the L-café

6 Writing Tutorials at the L-café

7 Providing Study Abroad Advice as a Viable Use of Social Learning Spaces

8 Optimizing Affordances: Developing a 'Digital Habitat' for the L-café

Part III Students' Perspectives

9 The Door to the L-café, the Door to the World

10 My Life in the L-caféfrom Different Angles

11 L-café: The International Home

12 Defining Experiencethrough the L-café

13 The Dark Side of L-café

14 My Critical Thoughts on the English Café and the L-café

15 How I Got Involved with the L-café

16 Fulfilling Time at the L-café

17 L-café: The Source of My Motivation to Study English

18 Understanding a Social Spacefor Language Learning

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137530110

1137530111

9781137530103

1137530103

OCLC:

1001368930