The Developing Language Learner: An Introduction to Exploratory Practice (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics) - Softcover

Allwright, Dick; Hanks, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403985324 ISBN 13: 9781403985323

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

If we want to treat learners as practitioners of learning, alongside teachers as practitioners of teaching, and therefore capable of reaping the developmental benefits of practitioner research, how can we best proceed? For Allwright and Hanks the answer lies in Exploratory Practice - an inclusive form of practitioner research developed largely in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in Lancaster, England, that enables both learners and teachers to develop their own understandings of their learning and teaching lives. After arguing that developments in the field of applied linguistics have fallen short of establishing such a perspective on learners, and reviewing current research models, the authors propose seven principles for a truly inclusive extension of practitioner research - Exploratory Practice. Five full chapters document, through learner and teacher narratives from around the world, how Exploratory Practice can engage learners as developing practitioners of learning, and enhance the learning process by enriching human relationships in the classroom.

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 272 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan This book-length treatment of the the Exploratory Practice Introduces five propositions about Learners as Practitioners of Learning Who are capable of developing their expertise through Conducting Research in and on their own Classroom Learning lives.Contents: General Editors' Preface Acknowledgements General Introduction: Learners and What We Think of Them PART I: THE DEVELOPING VIEW OF THE LEARNER Introduction to Part I Assessment and the Learner Method and the Learner Teacher Training and the Learner Learner Variables and the Learner Second Language Acquisition Studies and the Learner PARTII: RESEARCH MODELS: WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE NEED What the Past Has Provided Going Beyond Experiments: Descriptive Classroom Research The Research We Now Need: Principled and Inclusive Practitioner Research PART III: INC...

Book Description

A new learner-centred take on collaborative classroom research, involving learners as active practitioner-researchers

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1403985324
• ISBN 13: 9781403985323
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 327