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Language Learning Careers as an Object of Narrative Research in TESOL
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Benson, Phil – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
One of the strengths of narrative research in TESOL is its potential to provide insight into long-term language learning experiences that cannot be investigated in real time. Reliance on retrospection, however, brings two problems that are addressed in this article through the concept of "language learning careers". The first problem is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)