PDF #19 – Second Language Teaching and Learning with Technology Views of Emergent Researchers
Second Language Teaching and Learning – Although technology has become embedded in our everyday life, researchers and practitioners constantly strive to find ways of incorporating technology in education, with language learning being one of those fields (Garrett, 2009). Numerous publications on this subject are available, mostly on condition that one is affiliated with a university, and that this university subscribes to a broad spectrum of publications. With the aim of widening free access research publications, we have elaborated a peer-reviewed eBook published under a Creative Commons license which provides not only protection but also freedom for authors and editors. Young researchers from a variety of countries participated with a chapter of their ongoing projects.
Learning a New Language?
Learning a new language? Or teaching a second language? Facing difficulties in learning or teaching a second language? What are some of the strategies in language learning? Here, we will be exploring some tips and tricks in language learning suited to different personality types. We will also look at ways teachers can apply the learning strategies into their course planning to teach the second language more effectively!
While language learning styles are more general, it should not be confused with language learning strategies as the same thing. “Language learning strategies are the specific behaviors…that students adopt to help them learn (Oxford and Lavine (1992), pg. 1-2).” We will be looking at how language learning strategies affect language learning styles (related to the Myers-Briggs personality types). It was argued that the learning style impacts the learning strategies employed by an individual (Ehrman & Oxford, 1990). It is within this context that Oxford developed the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning, or SILL (Oxford, 1990), which we will be working with in the subsequent subchapters.
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