Extroversion/Introversion in Foreign Language Learning by Natsumi Wakamoto
This book explores how learners' personalities influence foreign language learning in Japan. In particular, this volume investigates three main research questions: What are the learning strategies generally employed by Japanese college students? What are the characteristic learning strategies of extroverts and introverts? Do extroversion and introversion have an impact on English listening proficiency? In the analysis carried out in the volume, both quantitative and qualitative research methods have been used. As regards the former, various types of questionnaires have been employed, measuring strategy use, personality characteristics, and English proficiency. As regards the latter, the strategies students use both in the classroom and in a tutorial learning situation have been observed, integrated with interviews with the students themselves regarding their use of learning strategies. In the last part of the book, the pedagogical implications of this study are examined with suggestions for both teachers and learners.-
Cross-linguistic Mediated Communication: Hybrid Text Production English-Spanish
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CLIL and Multilingual Writing in Primary Education
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Adapting Food-Related Communication to Children
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New directions in Instructional Pragmatics Research
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Directionality in English morphological conversion
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Investigating Linguistic Knowledge of a Second Language
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Current Trends in LSP Research
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Lexicography at a Crossroads
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The Role of Prosody in Affective Speech
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The Specialised Lexicographical Approach: A Step further in Dictionary-making
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Learning to Become a Professional in a Textually-Mediated World
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Conversation Analysis and Language for Specific Purposes
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Argument Structure in Flux
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Academic Discourse
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Les Les fibres textiles entre synchronie et diachronie
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Methods and Data in English Historical Dialectology
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Age-Specific Issues. Language, Spaces, Technologies
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Modes of Co-reference as an Indicator of Genre
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Estudios de género asistidos por corpus
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Early Modern Northern English Lexis
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Content and Foreign Language Integrated Learning
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The Pragmatics of Academic Writing
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Vagueness in Normative Texts
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Business Discourse
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'Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed'
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Identity, Community, Discourse
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Studies in Linguistics and Cognition
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The Language Factor in International Business
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The Emergence of Patterns in Second Language Writing
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Genre Change in the Contemporary World
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Current Perspectives in Second Language Vocabulary Research
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Academic Identity Traits
The Author: Natsumi Wakamoto is Professor in the Department of English, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto, Japan, where he teaches applied linguistics and teacher training courses. Through his research on the individual differences of EFL learners, he has been exploring ways to help different types of learners use appropriate strategies to improve their English proficiency. He has a B.A. in education from Kyoto University, an M.Ed. in English education from Hyogo University of Teacher Education, and an Ed.D. in second language education from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783039115969 |
| ISBN 10 | 3039115960 |
| Title | Extroversion/Introversion in Foreign Language Learning |
| Author | Maurizio Gotti |
| Series | Linguistic Insights |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verlag Peter Lang |
| Year published | 2009-06-08 |
| Number of pages | 159 |
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