The Ecosystem of the Foreign Language Learner Selected Issues /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Piechurska-Kuciel, Ewa (Editor), Szyszka, Magdalena (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Second Language Learning and Teaching,
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Applied linguistics.; Language and education.; Applied Linguistics.; Language Education.

This volume examines selected aspects of the foreign language learning process from an ecological perspective, adopting a holistic view on complex interrelations among and within organisms (L2 language learners) and their milieus (family, school and society). First of all, the personal ecosystem of...

Table of Contents:

• What the Languages of our Dreams tell us About our Multilinguality
• The Cecily Effect: A Pilot Study
• Foreign Language Self-assessment and Willingness to Communicate in and Outside the Classroom
• Associative Links in the Bilingual Mind
• EFL Teachers’ Affective Competencies and their Relationships with the Students
• Rhetorical Criticism as an Advanced Literacy Practice: A Report on a Pilot training
• Cultural Problems in Literary Translation from English into Arabic.