Strategic language learning: The roles of agency and context

Strategic language learning: The roles of agency and context

• Gao, Xuesong

Bristol ; Buffalo

Multilingual Matters

2010

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
• N Students & Student Services
  • NN Overseas Students in Hong Kong

English Language -- Study and Teaching (Higher) -- Chinese Speakers English Language -- Study and Teaching (Higher) -- China Second Language Acquisition -- Methodology English Language -- Acquisition -- Methodology

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

"This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates' language learning experiences at 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 behavior. The inquiry, using a qualitative and ethnographic research approach, reveals dynamicinteraction 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 theirstrategic learning knowledge."-BOOK JACKET.

• English

Books

• 9781847692443
• 1847692443
• 9781847692436
• 1847692435
• 9781847692450 (ebook)
• 1847692451 (ebook)

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/4854ab36

2011-06-16