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Language learning motivation: A multi-dimensional competence

If we accept the idea that motivation is neither a natural gift nor the result of fortuitous circumstances, then we need to consider its multiple dimensions: the influence of interpersonal and sociocultural relationships, the impact of the learning tasks which are set in the classroom, and the dynamic interplay of personal values, beliefs and perceptions which shape the language learner’s identity.

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Awareness

Beliefs about reading

Beliefs and attitudes

Brain dominance

Classification strategies

Cultural learning styles

Error correction

Grammar learning

Induction strategies

Inference strategies

Language awareness

Language resources

Learner autonomy

Learner portfolio

Learner training

Learning strategies

Learning styles

Modularity

Motivation in language learning

Plurilingualism

Portfolios

Process & competence

Strategic competence

Study skills

Task motivation

Teaching styles

Technology and styles

 

Communication strategies

is both a handbook for teachers, teacher trainers and educators, providing them with a sound methodological background, and a collection of 30 practice activities, games and tasks for language learners and users.

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Developing strategic competence: towards autonomy in oral interaction

Strategic competence - solving communication problems despite inadequate command of the linguistic/sociocultural code - is an important feature of both L1 and L2 interaction. Teaching approaches will have to ensure that students consider authentic situations where strategies play a significant role; become aware of strategies through observation and discussion; and face problem-oriented, open-ended interactive tasks which require strategy use to negotiate meanings and intentions.

The challenge of plurilingual education: Promoting transfer across the language curriculum

A plurilingual curriculum is responsible for promoting the transfer of knowledge, beliefs/attitudes and skills across languages, This means (re)discovering the potential of cross-curricular language education, highlighting transferable elements in the areas of language awareness and learning awareness.

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Learning styles across cultures

Learning styles are as much affected by cultural factors as all other areas of individual differences.  Such factors, while shaping individual identity, should not lead to undue generalizations or even stereotypes. Within multi-cultural educational institutions, possible clashes between learning and teaching styles can only be dealt with through processes of awareness raising, mediation and negotiation.

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Learning strategies: bridging the gap between competence and process

Learning strategies have long been recognised as a key tool to empower students and promote learner autonomy. Recent debates on school reform, however, invite us to clarify the place that strategy instruction may have in a new curriculum, with special regard to the concept of "competence” and to the interaction between “process” and “product”. Thus it is important to investigate the role that strategies can play in the learning process, both from a cognitive and from an affective-motivational point of view.

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Highlights from the Italian section

Imparare le lingue straniere a scuola: una ricerca sulle convinzioni e gli atteggiamenti degli studenti

Le strategie per imparare: aiutare tutti gli studenti a gestire il proprio apprendimento

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Imparare a imparare, insegnare a imparare

Gestire le differenze individuali: una pluralità di interventi 

Le diversità culturali negli stili cognitivi e comunicativi:
dal conflitto al compromesso alla sinergia

 

 

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