Garold Murray

Social Spaces for Language Learning

Stories from the L-café

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Social spaces for language learning, places where learners can come together in order to learn with and from each other, have an important role to play in foreign language acquisition and L2 identity development. In this book, sixteen students, teachers and administrators tell how they experience the L-café, a social language learning space located on the campus of a Japanese university. As part of a narrative inquiry, their unabridged stories are framed by background information on the study and an in-depth analysis informed by theories of space and place, and complex dynamic systems. Addressing practical as well as theoretical concerns, thi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Fujishima, N. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-137-53010-3
EAN: 9781137530103
Produktnummer: 23916723
Verlag: Palgrave Pivot
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'001 KB

Über den Autor

Garold Murray is an associate professor in the Language Education Center at Okayama University, Japan. He has published widely on the subject of autonomy in language learning and is currently pursuing research interests in social learning spaces, the semiotics of place, and imagination in language learning. Naomi Fujishima is a professor in the Language Education Center at Okayama University, Japan. Her interest in learner autonomy and student motivation stems from her years of teaching in Japan and the US. She has been actively involved in the Japan Association for Language Teaching for the past 25 years.