Beliefs About Sla

by Kalaja, Paula; Barcelos, Ana Maria Ferreira

• ISBN13: 9781402047503
• ISBN10: 1402047509
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This edited collection of articles illustrates more recent work on beliefs about SLA, drawing on the thinking of (educational) philosophers and (discursive) psychologists, including Dewey, Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and Potter. The data for these reports have been collected by a variety of means, e.g., narratives, diary/journal entries, interviews, completion tasks, classroom observations, and subjected to a number of novel ways of analysis. The book puts past and present research into perspective by comparing and contrasting different approaches. Both beliefs from second/foreign language learners and teachers are subject of research. The contributions provide detailed accounts of starting points, definitions, methods of data collection and analysis, main findings and implications for further research.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	iv
INTRODUCTION	1	(4)
SECTION 1: KEY ISSUES IN RESEARCH ON BELIEFS ABOUT SLA	5	(30)
RESEARCHING BELIEFS ABOUT SLA: A CRITICAL REVIEW	7	(28)
Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos
SECTION 2: NEW APPROACHES TO DOING RESEARCH ON BELIEFS ABOUT SLA: FOCUS ON STUDENTS	35	(94)
EVIDENCE OF EMERGENT BELIEFS OF A SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNER: A DIARY STUDY	37	(18)
Carol Hosenfeld
A SOCIOCULTURAL APPROACH TO YOUNG LANGUAGE LEARNERS' BELIEFS ABOUT LANGUAGE LEARNING	55	(32)
Riikka Alanen
RESEARCH ON STUDENTS' BELIEFS ABOUT SLA WITHIN A DISCURSIVE APPROACH	87	(22)
Paula Kalaja
METAPHOR AND THE SUBJECTIVE CONSTRUCTION OF BELIEFS	109	(20)
Claire Kramsch
SECTION 3: NEW APPROACHES TO DOING RESEARCH ON BELIEFS ABOUT SLA: FOCUS ON STUDENTS AND TEACHERS	129	(612)
BELIEFS IN DIALOGUE: A BAKHTINIAN VIEW	131	(22)
Hannele Dufva
A CASE STUDY: BELIEFS AND METAPHORS OF A JAPANESE TEACHER OF ENGLISH	153	(18)
Keiko Sakui and Stephen J. Gaies
TEACHERS' AND STUDENTS' BELIEFS WITHIN A DEWEYAN FRAMEWORK: CONFLICT AND INFLUENCE	171	(30)
Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF BELIEFS IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM	201	(30)
Devon Woods
CONCLUSION: EXPLORING POSSIBILITIES FOR FUTURE RESEARCH ON BELIEFS ABOUT SLA	231	(510)
Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos and Paula Kalaja
Subject Index	741
Author Index	143