Gkonou, C (2014) Agency, anxiety and activity: Understanding the classroom behavior of EFL learners. In: Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Second Language Acquisition . Multilingual Matters, Bristol, pp. 195-212. ISBN 9781783092901.
Gkonou, C (2014) Agency, anxiety and activity: Understanding the classroom behavior of EFL learners. In: Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Second Language Acquisition . Multilingual Matters, Bristol, pp. 195-212. ISBN 9781783092901.
Gkonou, C (2014) Agency, anxiety and activity: Understanding the classroom behavior of EFL learners. In: Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Second Language Acquisition . Multilingual Matters, Bristol, pp. 195-212. ISBN 9781783092901.
Abstract
The prominence of learner-centered curricula and the focus on social constructivist views of language learning largely characterize current approaches to second language acquisition (SLA) theory, research and practice. In light of these developments, language learners are viewed as active agents, whose learning in classrooms is contextualized, and is both ecologically and dynamically influenced by their personal histories and by the range of settings in which they interact (Benson, 2005; Block, 2003; Lantolf and Pavlenko, 2001; Larsen-Freeman, 2001; Mercer, 2011a, 2011b; Mercer et al., 2012; Ushioda, 2009; Williams and Burden, 1997). Personal and socially constructed agency exert a significant influence on the control learners have over their own learning, and, ultimately, on the levels of attainment of proficiency in a second or foreign language.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | teaching of language; teaching and learning contexts; student characteristics; agency; anxiety; EFL; social constructionist approach |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 06 May 2015 10:56 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 17:07 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/13673 |
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