Autonomy, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: 112 (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication) - Softcover

Huang, Jing

 
9783034303705: Autonomy, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: 112 (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 303430370X ISBN 13: 9783034303705
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2013

Synopsis

This book offers readers a basic grounding in autonomy and related concepts of agency and identity in foreign language education. The ethnographic study explores how autonomy develops within the long-term process of EFL and TEFL learning in a Chinese social and institutional context. Through examining the general characteristics and patterns within the long-term development of autonomy among the students, the enquiry puts under close scrutiny a number of fundamental issues in autonomy research and practice, such as reactive autonomy in relation to proactive autonomy, personal autonomy in relation to learner autonomy, other-control in relation to self-control in the «multi-control model» of autonomy, and also issues of autonomy in the transition from foreign language learning to foreign language teaching. The study presents the more «describable» concepts of identity and agency to investigate the development of autonomy in foreign language learning and teaching and explores their complex interrelationships. The book finally highlights major contributions and limitations of the investigation, and provides implications and suggestions for theory, pedagogy and research.

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About the Author

Jing Huang received his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hong Kong. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Education Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research is in learner and teacher autonomy, TESOL teacher education, language learning autobiographies, and identity in foreign language learning.

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Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
303430370X
ISBN 13 
9783034303705
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
414