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Relationality, Interconnectedness, and Identity: A Process-Focused Approach to Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLA/T)
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Dwight Atkinson; Jorge Mejía-Laguna; Amable Custodio Ribeiro; Marco Cappellini; Hayriye Kayi-Aydar; Wander Lowie – Modern Language Journal, 2025
This complex article has six subsections. Following a brief introduction, one team of three co-authors and three single authors present compact statements of their distinctive individual research perspectives on second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T): Atkinson, Mejía-Laguna, and Ribeiro offer a sociocognitive perspective; Cappellini…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Humanizing TESOL Research through the Lens of Complexity Thinking
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Pinner, Richard S.; Sampson, Richard J. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Humanizing complexity research is already strongly advocated by much of the literature on complexity (Kramsch, 2011; Larsen-Freeman, 2011; Sampson, 2016) and yet there is a recent trend towards a potentially alienating approach, which could confound readers, utilising a dense vocabulary and overly technical methods. We advocate a more practical…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Research, Humanization
Introduction to New Developments in ESP Teaching and Learning Research
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Whyte, Shona; Sarré, Cédric – Research-publishing.net, 2017
In introducing the studies in this collective volume on research in teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP), we begin by considering the current context of language education in European universities, then examine key terms and concepts in our own vision of ESP didactics, before previewing the chapters selected for inclusion in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes, Educational Trends, Second Language Instruction
The Self as a Complex Dynamic System
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Mercer, Sarah – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
This article explores the potential offered by complexity theories for understanding language learners' sense of self and attempts to show how the self might usefully be conceived of as a complex dynamic system. Rather than presenting empirical findings, the article discusses existent research on the self and aims at outlining a conceptual…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Individual Differences, Second Language Learning, Learning Theories
European Trends in the Development of Occupations and Qualifications. Findings of Research, Studies and Analyses for Policy and Practice. Volume II. CEDEFOP Reference Document.
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Sellin, Burkart, Ed. – 1999
This document contains 23 papers on European trends in vocational education and training (VET) and the development of occupations and qualifications. The following papers are included: "Vocational Socialisation and Competence Development: The Historical Dimension" (Walter R. Heinz); "European Trends in the Development of Vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Communications, Competence, Continuing Education
IT [Information Technology] in Vocational Education [and] Training. Paper Presentations: Session D.
2000
This document contains 15 papers from the information technology (IT) in vocational education and training (VET) section of an international conference on VET for lifelong learning in the information era. The following papers are included: "Adapting the System of Continuing Vocational Education for the 3rd Industrial Revolution--Experiences…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Business English, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education