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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
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Learning English as a Foreign Language: From School Children to Young Adults
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Studying Foreign Languages: From First-Year University Students to Graduates
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Teaching Foreign Languages: From Novice Teachers to Experienced Professionals
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Conclusion
Keywords
- Language learning
- language teaching
- English
- learners
- teachers
- student teachers
- pre-service teachers
- in-service teachers
- beliefs about SLA
- beliefs about language learning and teaching
- learner beliefs
- teacher beliefs
- agency
- identity
- teacher identity
- learner identity
- professional identity
- longitudinal
- interviews
- visual narratives
- first language
- Language Learning
- second language
- SLA
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ana Maria F. Barcelos is Associate Professor of English at the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. Her main interests include beliefs about language learning and teaching as related to emotions and identities. She has co-authored and -edited a number of books including Beliefs about SLA: New Research Approaches (2003) and Narratives of Learning and Teaching EFL (2008).
Mari Aro has been Senior Researcher in the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her main areas of research include learner beliefs and agency. With dialogism and the work of the Bakhtin Circle as her theoretical background, she focuses particularly on the notions of voice and authority.
Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty is Postdoctoral Researcher in Language Pedagogy in the Department of Teacher Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her main areas of research include foreign language teachers' professional development, agency and identity as well as the development of teacher education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beliefs, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
Authors: Paula Kalaja, Ana Maria F. Barcelos, Mari Aro, Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137425959
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-42594-2Published: 26 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-42595-9Published: 03 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 237
Topics: Language Teaching, Language Education, Psycholinguistics, English, Applied Linguistics, Teaching and Teacher Education