Student Engagement in the Language Classroom

ISBN 10: 1788923596 / ISBN 13: 9781788923590

Published by Channel View Publications, 2020

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Through a mix of conceptual and empirical chapters, this book defines engagement for the field of language learning. It serves as an authoritative guide for anyone wishing to understand the unique insights engagement can give into language learning and teac.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Student Engagement in the Language Classroom
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788923596
• ISBN 13: 9781788923590
• Binding: Kartoniert / Broschiert
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book defines engagement for the field of language learning and contextualizes it within existing work on the psychology of language learning and teaching. Chapters address broad substantive questions concerned with what engagement is or looks like, and how it can be theorized for the language classroom; methodological questions related to the design, measurement and analysis of engagement in language classrooms and beyond; as well as applied issues examining its antecedents, factors inhibiting and enhancing it, and conditions fostering the re-engagement of language learners who have become disengaged. Through a mix of conceptual and empirical chapters, the book explores similarities and differences between motivation and engagement and addresses questions of whether, how and why learners actually do exert effort, allocate attention, participate and become involved in tangible language learning and use. It will serve as an authoritative benchmark for future theoretical and empirical research into engagement within the classroom and beyond, and will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the unique insights and contributions the topic of engagement can make to language learning and teaching.

About the Authors

Phil Hiver is an Assistant Professor at Florida State University, USA. His research interests include instructed language learning and the role of psycho-social factors in second language teaching and learning.

Dr. Ali H. Al-Hoorie is an assistant professor at the English Language Institute, Education Sector, Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. He completed his PhD degree at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Professors Zoltán Dörnyei and Norbert Schmitt. He also holds an MA in Social Science Data Analysis from Essex University. His research interests include motivation theory, research methodology, and complexity. His publications have appeared in a number of journals including Language Learning, The Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, ELT J, Language Teaching Research, and Learning and Individual Differences. He is also the co-author (with Phil Hiver) of the upcoming book Research Methods for Complexity in Applied Linguistics and a co-editor (with Peter D. MacIntyre) of Contemporary Language Motivation Theory: 60 Years Since Gardner and Lambert (1959).

Sarah Mercer is Professor and Head of the ELT Research and Methodology Department at the University of Graz, Austria. Her research interests lie in all aspects of language learning psychology (teacher and learner perspectives), in particular in self-related constructs, engagement, agency, affect, belief systems and wellbeing.