Teaching And Researching Language Learning Strategies Paperback 2

India

Rebecca L. Oxford

Now in its second edition, Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context charts the field systematically and coherently for the benefit of language learning practitioners, students, and researchers. This volume carries on the author's tradition of linking theoretical insights with readability and practical utility and offers an enhanced Strategic Self-Regulation Model. It is enriched by many new features, such as the first-ever major content analysis of published learning strategy definitions, leading to a long-awaited, encompassing strategy definition that, to a significant degree, brings order out of chaos in the strategy field. Rebecca L. Oxford provides an intensive discussion of self-regulation, agency, and related factors as the "soul of learning strategies." She ushers the strategy field into the twenty-first century with the first in-depth treatment of strategies and complexity theory.

1138856800

9781138856806

English

Taylor & Francis Ltd

28 Dec 2016

Rebecca L. Oxford is Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland and a part-time adjunct professor of second language teaching and psychology at the University of Alabama in both Birmingham and Huntsville, USA.

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I welcome this masterly work from a renowned scholar. It is fresh, comprehensive, scholarly and readable. Oxford explores the quagmire of definitions of strategies leading to an integrated definition, and links strategies to self-regulation, autonomy and agency, giving us new ways of viewing this construct. Once again she moves the field forward. - Marion Williams "This book advances our understanding of the complexities of language learning strategies, their diverse theoretical underpinnings, and the individual variations and shifting shapes that characterize them. Rebecca Oxford discusses how complexity theory relates to language learning strategies, develops her S2R model, and provides numerous practical applications for language teachers." - Anna Uhl Chamot, The George Washington University, USA