Beliefs About SLA New Research Approaches

This edited collection of articles illustrates more recent work on beliefs about SLA, drawing on the thinking of (educational) philosophers and (discursive) psychologists, including Dewey, Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and Potter. The data for these reports have been collected by a variety of means, e.g., narr...

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Other Authors: Kalaja, P. (Editor), Ferreira Barcelos, A.M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
Series:Educational Linguistics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Key Issues in Research on Beliefs About SLA
  • Researching Beliefs About SLA: A Critical Review
  • New Approaches to doing Research on beliefs About SLA: Focus on Students
  • Evidence of Emergent Beliefs of a Second Language Learner: A Case Study
  • A Sociocultural Approach to Young Language Learners' Belief about Language Learning
  • Research on Students’ Beliefs about SLA within a Discursive Approach
  • Metaphor and the Subjective Construction of Beliefs
  • New Approaches to doing Research on beliefs About SLA: Focus on Students and Teachers
  • Beliefs in Dialogue: A Bakhtinian View
  • A Case Study: Beliefs and Metaphors of a Japanese Teacher of English
  • Teachers' and Students' Beliefs within a Deweyan Framework: Conflict and Influence
  • The Social Construction of Beliefs in the Language Classroom
  • Conclusion: Exploring Possibilities for Future Research on Beliefs about SLA.