基本説明
A comprehensive treatment of what is known about the development of the learner in language education, the development of strategies, learner agency and motivation.
Full Description
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.
Contents
General Editors' Preface Acknowledgements General Introduction: Learners and What We Think of Them PART I: THE DEVELOPING VIEW OF THE LEARNER Introduction to Part I Assessment and the Learner Method and the Learner Teacher Training and the Learner Learner Variables and the Learner Second Language Acquisition Studies and the Learner PART II: RESEARCH MODELS: WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE NEED What the Past Has Provided Going Beyond Experiments: Descriptive Classroom Research The Research We Now Need: Principled and Inclusive Practitioner Research PART III: INCLUSIVE PRACTITIONER RESEARCH IN PRACTICE Introduction to Part III Getting Started Conducting Investigations The 'Web of Life' of the Rio de Janeiro Exploratory Practice Group Sharing Developing Understandings Beyond the Classroom PART IV: SOURCES AND RESOURCES FOR INCLUSIVE PRACTITIONER RESEARCH Postscript References Index