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Awareness in Action

The Role of Consciousness in Language Acquisition

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Editors:
  1. Andrzej Łyda

    1. Institute of English, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland

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  2. Konrad Szcześniak

    1. Institute of English, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland

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  • Studies featured in the volume analyze awareness in advanced learners
  • Most subjects are university students - proficient users of English and learners of other languages, but above all adults capable of mastering technical details about the structure of the language system
  • Contributions to the volume present results from studies conducted in various countries, including Australia, Hong Kong, Poland and Portugal
  • The volume features internationally recognized authors
  • Previous ICFSLA proceedings volumes published through Multilingual Matters were favorably received
  • The main theme, language awareness is a key issue in EU language policy, and as such it may attract a wide readership amongst academics and researchers applying for grants
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  3. Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Investigating Learner Engagement with Oral Corrective Feedback: Aims, Methodology, Outcomes

      • Mirosław Pawlak
      Pages 69-84

    3. Learner Perception of the Effectiveness of Language Awareness Activities Used in Teaching Practical Phonetics and Phonology to First Year Students of English Philology

      • Monika Grotek
      Pages 85-102

    4. The Influence of Explicit Phonetic Instruction and Production Training Practice on Awareness Raising in the Realization of Stop Consonant Clusters by Advanced Polish Learners of English

      • Marcin Bergier
      Pages 103-120

    5. An Investigation into the Learners’ Awareness of Word-Level Stress

      • Ewa Czajka
      Pages 121-129

    6. Advanced Learners’ Perceptions of Hedges and Awareness-Raising Tasks

      • Aneta Kot
      Pages 131-150

    7. Language Awareness in Third or Additional Language Attrition

      • Teresa Maria Włosowicz
      Pages 151-163

    8. Gauging Advanced Learners’ Language Awareness: Some Remarks on the Perceptual Salience of Formulaic Sequences

      • Ewa Guz
      Pages 165-181

    9. Putting Bits and Pieces Together: Awareness of Text Structure in Jigsaw Reading

      • Liliana Piasecka
      Pages 183-193

    10. The Role of Metacognitive Awareness in Reading Comprehension of CLIL Learners

      • Katarzyna Papaja
      Pages 195-206
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About this book

The papers included in the volume look at how language awareness affects the outcomes of foreign and second language acquisition in advanced learners. The book focuses on questions such as how much linguistic knowledge is open to the learner’s conscious experience, what should and should not be considered the knowledge of language, how language awareness can be enhanced in the classroom, and, most crucially, what effects language awareness has on attained proficiency. Some papers in the volume also address methodological challenges of researching language awareness, such as the difficulty of defining and measuring awareness with sufficient precision.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of English, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland

    Andrzej Łyda, Konrad Szcześniak

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Awareness in Action

  • Book Subtitle: The Role of Consciousness in Language Acquisition

  • Editors: Andrzej Łyda, Konrad Szcześniak

  • Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00461-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00460-0Published: 24 September 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34483-6Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00461-7Published: 07 September 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2193-7648

  • Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 268

  • Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language Education

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