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Informal Learning and Institution-Wide Language Provision: University Language Learners in the 21st Century. New Language Learning and Teaching Environments
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Toffoli, Denyze – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2020
This book takes a fresh look at both context and the language learner in an attempt to shed light on the holistic and ever-changing system of the contemporary L2 speaker's language development. Drawing on complex dynamic systems theory as a means to more fully understand the holistic nature of contemporary language learning, the author attempts to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Higher Education, Informal Education
Cross-Theoretical Explorations of Interlocutors and Their Individual Differences. Language Learning & Language Teaching. Volume 53
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Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2020
This book examines the role of interlocutors and their individual differences (IDs) in second language (L2) development from four theoretical lenses: the cognitive-interactionist approach, sociocultural theory, the variationist approach, and complex dynamic systems theory. A theoretical overview to each approach is written by a preeminent scholar…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
Profiling Learner Language as a Dynamic System
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Han, ZhaoHong, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This volume sheds empirical light on Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) by providing five sets of analyses of two longitudinal, interactional datasets, involving two dyads exchanging emails over one academic semester. The collective study on CDST is the first of its kind, in that it delves into multiple subsystems of learner language,…
Descriptors: Profiles, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Systems Approach