By Sarah Mercer, Stephen Ryan, Marion Williams

Offering a well timed picture of present conception and examine within the box of psychology in overseas language studying, this ebook is available to either experts and non-specialists. every one bankruptcy specializes in a special mental build and gives an summary of present pondering within the quarter drawing on insights from academic psychology.

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In the larger study, I explored their experiences in depth by examining their personal backgrounds, histories, and investments, analysing their classroom participation and identity negotiation and transformation within two different courses over time, triangulating multiple sources of data and viewpoints, and also comparing and contrasting their experiences. Due to space limitations, what I present below is a significantly condensed version of my analysis and refers only to the students’ experiences in one course, Course C.

Although findings cannot be unthinkingly applied across contexts and settings, case studies are capable of generating theoretical propositions which can be explored in other studies. They can also provide rich, detailed descriptions that enable the reader to consider the potential appropriateness and ‘transferability’ of the findings to their own contexts. Importantly, their strength lies in their capacity to provide a deeper understanding of individuals in a way that embraces differences and uniqueness without any express need to search for similarities (for a thorough discussion of case studies in SLA, see Duff, 2008).

And I thought in English it’s the same but . . All the data are also strongly affective in tone and it is possible to see how her EFL self-concept appears to be closely connected to her feelings and emotional responses to contexts and experiences: I had to take an English test on Wednesday and failed so terribly, I feel embarrassed thinking about it. Other aspects of Carina’s psychology which seem interrelated with her self-concept concern her motivation and goals. Through her expression of goals in terms of possible future selves, her current self-concept can be thought of as situated in relation to her imagination and visions of herself in the future: .

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