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The Developing Language Learner
An Introduction to Exploratory Practice, Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
ISBN/EAN: 9781403985323
Umbreit-Nr.: 9052979
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xv, 312 S., 53 s/w Illustr., 312 p. 53 illus.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 17.12.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
- Zusatztext
- This book-length treatment of Exploratory Practice introduces five propositions about learners as practitioners of learning who are capable of developing their expertise through conducting research in and on their own classroom learning lives.
- Kurztext
- Pragmatics is one of the fastest growing research fields within language and communicationExtends the relevance-theoretic discussion of coherence to the level of global coherenceChallenges many established positions, re-examining experimental psychological data on discourse structure and coherenceProvides cognitive pragmatic explanations of socio-pragmatic phenomena, suggesting bridges between the two approaches
- Autorenportrait
- DICK ALLWRIGHT is now retired from teaching applied linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. Once an enthusiast for observational classroom research, he has in recent years developed Exploratory Practice, a form of practitioner research involving teachers and learners working together, during language lessons, to explore and develop their own understandings of their classroom lives. He is the author of Observation in the Language Classroom, and (with Kathleen M. Bailey) Focus on the Language Classroom: An Introduction to Classroom Research for Language Teachers. JUDITH HANKS has been a teacher, teacher trainer, course director, director of studies, and a learner of languages for many years. She has worked in Italy, Singapore, London, Lancaster and is currently Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. A founder member of the EPCentre Team, she has given a number of workshops, talks and presentations on Exploratory Practice and is particularly interested in Teacher Development and in Learner (under-) Performance.