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Beliefs About SLA

New Research Approaches

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Editors:
  1. Paula Kalaja

    1. University of Jyväskylä, Finland

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  2. Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos

    1. Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil

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  • Makes an interesting contribution to the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), especially to the rekindled discussion of the characteristics of a good language learner
  • With contributions from leading researchers

Part of the book series: Educational Linguistics (EDUL, volume 2)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Key Issues in Research on Beliefs About SLA

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Researching Beliefs About SLA: A Critical Review

      • Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos
      Pages 7-33

  3. New Approaches to doing Research on beliefs About SLA: Focus on Students

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Evidence of Emergent Beliefs of a Second Language Learner: A Case Study

      • Carol Hosenfeld
      Pages 37-54

    3. A Sociocultural Approach to Young Language Learners' Belief about Language Learning

      • Riikka Alanen
      Pages 55-85

    4. Research on Students’ Beliefs about SLA within a Discursive Approach

      • Paula Kalaja
      Pages 87-108

    5. Metaphor and the Subjective Construction of Beliefs

      • Claire Kramsch
      Pages 109-128

  4. New Approaches to doing Research on beliefs About SLA: Focus on Students and Teachers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Beliefs in Dialogue: A Bakhtinian View

      • Hannele Dufva
      Pages 131-151

    3. A Case Study: Beliefs and Metaphors of a Japanese Teacher of English

      • Keiko Sakui, Stefen J. Gaies
      Pages 153-170

    4. Teachers' and Students' Beliefs within a Deweyan Framework: Conflict and Influence

      • Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos
      Pages 171-199

    5. The Social Construction of Beliefs in the Language Classroom

      • Devon Woods
      Pages 201-229

    6. Conclusion: Exploring Possibilities for Future Research on Beliefs about SLA

      • Paula Kalaja, Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos
      Pages 231-238

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 239-247
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About this book

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., narratives, diary/journal entries, interviews, completion tasks, classroom observations, and subjected to a number of novel ways of analysis. The book puts past and present research into perspective by comparing and contrasting different approaches. Both beliefs from second/foreign language learners and teachers are subject of research. The contributions provide detailed accounts of starting points, definitions, methods of data collection and analysis, main findings and implications for further research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Jyväskylä, Finland

    Paula Kalaja

  • Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil

    Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Beliefs About SLA

  • Book Subtitle: New Research Approaches

  • Editors: Paula Kalaja, Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos

  • Series Title: Educational Linguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4751-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4750-3Published: 01 May 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4751-0Published: 03 October 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1572-0292

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 249

  • Topics: Language Education, Psycholinguistics, Applied Linguistics

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