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• Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
• File Size : 55,6 Mb
• Release Date : 04 August 1998

The authors discuss and analyse the factors that contribute to unproductive conflict, demotivation and aversion to language learning and ways of ameliorating the situation for foreign language teachers and teachers

• Publisher : SAGE
• File Size : 30,9 Mb
• Release Date : 26 September 1996

Ehrman presents the insights, techniques and skills needed to understand why some adult students have difficulties with learning a second language, emphasising the importance of careful investigation and correct diagnosis

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
• File Size : 27,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 October 2012

Learner characteristics have been at the center of second language acquisition and foreign language education research in response to the puzzling questions: Why are there often large differences in second

• Publisher : Multilingual Matters
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• Release Date : 03 May 2013

Affectivity is at the core of everything we do in life. Thus, its development is also central to learning/acquisition and is important for educational contexts. The studies presented in

• Publisher : Multilingual Matters
• File Size : 49,8 Mb
• Release Date : 07 December 2018

This book explores the motivations of adult second language (L2) learners to learn Italian in continuing education settings in Australia. It focuses on their motivational drives, learning trajectories and related

• Publisher : Multilingual Matters
• File Size : 46,8 Mb
• Release Date : 05 August 2015

SLA literature tends to focus predominantly on what motivates language learners, but what demotivates them has not been widely discussed. This book, focusing exclusively on demotivation, will help readers to

• Publisher : Peter Lang
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Dublin, Trinity College.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 10 March 2005

Language plays an essential role in how we portray our personalities. Through social interaction, others develop a picture of us based on our linguistic cues. However, when we interact in

• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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• Release Date : 19 February 2021

Self-Esteem and Foreign Language Learning deals with a topic which has been given surprisingly little attention in Second and Foreign Language Acquisition studies. Although there are several studies dealing with

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 37,6 Mb
• Release Date : 12 April 2006

Many vocabulary items that foreign language learners encounter involve figurative extensions of meaning. To understand figurative speech, learners often need to employ figurative thinking. This book examines figurative thinking, considers