Challenges of Second and Foreign Language Education in a Globalized World

1. Front Matter

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2. Challenges of Language Teaching and Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Mission in English Language Teaching: Why and Why Not?

      • Anna Niżegorodcew

      Pages 3-16

   3. How to Deal with Applications in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (FLLT)

      • Maria Dakowska

      Pages 17-33

   4. Evaluating Language Courses at Foreign Language University Centers

      • Danuta Gabryś-Barker

      Pages 35-51

   5. Emotion as the Amplifier and the Primary Motive: Some Theories of Emotion with Relevance to Language Learning

      • Rebecca L. Oxford

      Pages 53-72

   6. Speech and Its Silent Partner: Gesture in Communication and Language Learning

      • Hanna Komorowska

      Pages 73-87

   7. Tinker, Tailor…: Creativity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

      • Liliana Piasecka

      Pages 89-106

   8. Making the News: An ICC Simulation in the Erasmus + Context

      • Teresa Siek-Piskozub

      Pages 107-115

   9. Toward an Integrated Model of Teaching Business English in Tertiary Education

      • Paweł Sobkowiak

      Pages 117-130

   10. English Instruction in Polish and Norwegian Secondary Schools: Convergent Goals, Divergent Means

       • Paweł Scheffler, May Olaug Horverak, Anna Domińska

       Pages 131-149

3. Challenges of Researching Language Classrooms

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Individualized Categories of Verbal Reports in Classroom Think-Aloud Translation Tasks

      • Anna Michońska-Stadnik

      Pages 153-166

   3. The Influence of Ambiguity Tolerance on Willingness to Communicate in L2

      • Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel

      Pages 167-184

   4. Tracing the Motivational Trajectories in Learning English as a Foreign Language. The Case of Two English Majors

      • Mirosław Pawlak, Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak

      Pages 185-207

   5. Trilingual Learners’ Awareness of the Role of L1 in Learning Target Language Grammar

      • Aleksandra Wach

      Pages 209-226

   6. The Effect of Strategy Instruction on English Majors’ Use of Affective Strategies and Anxiety Levels

      • Jakub Bielak

      Pages 227-249

   7. Characteristics of Good Foreign Language Educators Across Cultural Boundaries

      • Marek Derenowski

      Pages 251-267

4. Challenges of Teacher Education and Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-269

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   2. The Contribution of Metaphor to University Students’ Explicit Knowledge About ELT Methodology

      • Joanna Zawodniak, Mariusz Kruk

      Pages 271-286

This edited collection brings together papers by eminent scholars who attempt to demonstrate how challenges can most successfully be ameliorated with an eye to enhancing the effectiveness of the processes of language teaching and learning. In Part One, emphasis is placed on challenges that second language education has to face, both those more general, dealing with language policy issues, and those more specific, concerned with instructional options in the language classroom. Part Two focuses on challenges involved in researching the processes of teaching and learning in the second and foreign languages classroom, both with respect to research methodology and efforts to tap some variables impinging upon the effects of instruction. Finally, Part Three is devoted to challenges involved in second and foreign language teacher education, the quality of which to a large extent determines the outcomes of second language education in any educational context.

• Language Learning
• Language Teaching
• Teacher Education
• Instructional Practices
• Second Language Acquisition Research
• Second language acquisition
• foreign language acquisition methodology

• Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland

  Mirosław Pawlak, Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak

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