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Strategic Language Learning

The Roles of Agency and Context

By: Xuesong (Andy) Gao

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Strategic Language Learning

The Roles of Agency and Context

By: Xuesong (Andy) Gao

This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates’ language learning experiences in an English medium university in a multilingual setting with a focus on their strategic language learning efforts. This book examines the issue as to what extent language learners’ strategic learning efforts depend on their ‘choice’, if ‘the element of choice’ is the defining characteristic of language learners’ strategic learning behaviour. The inquiry, using a qualitative and ethnographic research approach, reveals dynamic interaction between learners’ agency and contextual conditions underlying the participants’ strategic learning process. Such understanding informs pedagogical efforts to foster individual learners’ capacity for strategic learning and their capacities in opening up and sustaining a social learning space for exercising their strategic learning capacity or utilizing their strategic learning knowledge.

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Multilingual Matters

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1847693911

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9781847693914

Language Learning Motivation in a Multilingual Chinese Context

By: Mairin Hennebry-Leung,Xuesong (Andy) Gao

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Language Learning Motivation in a Multilingual Chinese Context

By: Mairin Hennebry-Leung,Xuesong (Andy) Gao

Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from teachers and students in Hong Kong’s secondary schools, this book examines critical questions in relation to language learning motivation and instructional contexts. Readers are provided with a critical overview of developments in theory and research on language learning motivation and the potential to further extend these developments. Grounded in the Douglas Fir Group conceptualization of language learning, the book explores the complex interplay of diverse factors that shape learners’ motivation. It offers a unique window into the situated nature of language learning motivation in the macro, meso, and micro contexts of a Chinese heritage society. In so doing, it brings the Chinese voice into the theorization of this important language learning construct. Potential future research avenues are suggested, and implications for policy and practice are discussed. This book will be a useful resource for academics and postgraduates interested in the fields of English as a second language (ESL), English language teaching, language teaching and learning.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000610586

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9781000610581

Language Teacher Agency

By: Jian Tao,Xuesong (Andy) Gao

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Language Teacher Agency

By: Jian Tao,Xuesong (Andy) Gao

This Element aims to elucidate the concept of language teacher agency by exploring the 'what' question, offering major conceptualisations of agency and explaining how they shape the way we approach teacher agency. The authors then continue with the 'why' question, and elaborate on the reasons that language teacher agency matters, based on a discussion of the varied purposes of teacher agency at multiple levels. They also acknowledge that teacher agency does not operate alone, and discuss how it intersects with such concepts as teacher identity, emotion, belief and knowledge. Based on this, they identify ways to promote teacher agency through making changes to contexts and/or actors. They then introduce the concept of collective agency and propose a multi-layered model based on an illustrative study. The Element ends with a call for a trans-perspective on understanding language teacher agency so as to facilitate the professional development of language teachers.

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115

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Cambridge University Press

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1108912575

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9781108912570

Language Teacher Education in a Multilingual Context

Experiences from Hong Kong

By: John Trent,Xuesong Gao,Mingyue Gu

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Language Teacher Education in a Multilingual Context

Experiences from Hong Kong

By: John Trent,Xuesong Gao,Mingyue Gu

This book provides a multifaceted, multilayered examination of the processes and challenges language teachers face in constructing their professional identities in multilingual contexts such as Hong Kong. It focuses on how professional and personal identities are enacted as individuals cross geographic, educational, and socio-cultural boundaries to become English language teachers in Hong Kong. It explores the construction of language teachers’ professional identities from multiple perspectives in multiple settings, including pre-service and in-service teachers from Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Western countries. Understanding the difficulties and challenges these language teachers face in their identity and professional development is of relevance to teachers and teacher educators, as well as those interested in becoming language teachers in multilingual contexts.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400773927

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9789400773929

Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning

By: Garold Murray,Xuesong (Andy) Gao,Terry Lamb

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Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning

By: Garold Murray,Xuesong (Andy) Gao,Terry Lamb

In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a conceptual level the authors explore issues related to agency, metacognition, imagination, beliefs, and self. The book also addresses practice in classroom, self-access, and distance education contexts, considering topics such as teachers’ views on motivation, plurilingual learning, sustaining motivation in distance education, pop culture and gaming, study abroad, and the role of agency and identity in the motivation of pre-service teachers. The book concludes with a discussion of how an approach which sees identity, motivation, and autonomy as interrelated constructs has the potential to inform theory, practice and future research directions in the field of language teaching and learning.

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Multilingual Matters

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1847694985

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Strategic Language Learning

The Roles of Agency and Context

By: Xuesong (Andy) Gao

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The Roles of Agency and Context

By: Xuesong (Andy) Gao

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Book's by Xuesong (Andy) Gao

Strategic Language Learning

Strategic Language Learning

Language Learning Motivation in a Multilingual Chinese Context

Language Learning Motivation in a Multilingual Chinese Context

Language Teacher Agency

Language Teacher Agency

Language Teacher Education in a Multilingual Context

Language Teacher Education in a Multilingual Context

Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning

Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning

Strategic Language Learning

Strategic Language Learning

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