This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates' language learning experiences in an English medium university in a multilingual setting with a focus on their strategic language learning efforts. This book examines the issue as to what extent language learners' strategic learning efforts depend on their 'choice', if 'the element of choice' is the defining characteristic of language learners' strategic learning behaviour. The inquiry, using a qualitative and ethnographic research approach, reveals dynamic interaction between learners' agency and contextual conditions underlying the participants' strategic learning process. Such understanding informs pedagogical efforts to foster individual learners' capacity for strategic learning and their capacities in opening up and sustaining a social learning space for exercising their strategic learning capacity or utilizing their strategic learning knowledge.
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Autorentext
Xuesong (Andy) Gao is an Associate Professor in the Division of English Language Education, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.
Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 A Sociocultural Perspective on Strategic Learning
Chapter 3 Mainland Chinese Students' Migration to Hong Kong
Chapter 4 On the Chinese Mainland
Chapter 5 Learning English in Hong Kong
Chapter 6 Four Case Studies
Chapter 7 Agency and Context in Strategic Learning
Titel
Strategic Language Learning
Untertitel
The Roles of Agency and Context
Autor
EAN
9781847693914
ISBN
978-1-84769-391-4
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
19.02.2010
Digitaler Kopierschutz
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Anzahl Seiten
192
Jahr
2010
Untertitel
Englisch
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