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Second Language Acquisition eBook Series

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  • Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning

    Edited by Dr. Garold Murray, Dr. Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Dr. Terry Lamb ...
    Series Book 54 - Second Language Acquisition
    In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a conceptual level the authors explore issues related to agency, metacognition, imagination, beliefs, and self. The book also ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Other Side of Mind

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    by Sarah Smyth ...
    The Other Side of Mind delves into the mind of a bipolar patient, exploring the soaring highs of mania and the devastating lows of depression. When Sarah Smyth began writing, she was consumed by madness and desperately needed psychiatric care. Because of the complexities of this illness, diagnosis was difficult, and Sarah endured several years of emotional and mental torment while being in serious ... Read more

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  • The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations

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    by Robert D. Keppel, William J. Birnes ...
    Serial killers like Seattle's Ted Bundy, Maryland's Beltway Sniper, Atlanta's Wayne Williams, or England's Peter Sutcliffe usually outsmart the task forces on their trail for long periods of time. Keppel and Birnes take readers inside the operations of serial killer task forces to learn why. What is the underlying psychology of a serial killer and why this defeats task force investigations? This ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Beginners’ Brazilian Portuguese

    Learn faster. Remember more.

    by Ethel Pereira de Almeida Rowbotham, Sue Tyson-Ward ...
    Learn to speak, read, write and understand Brazilian Portuguese!Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship-whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' Brazilian Portuguese will help you to:- Communicate naturally in everyday situations.- Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities.- Understand and pronounce Brazilian Portuguese easily with online ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Emerging Self-Identities and Emotion in Foreign Language Learning

    A Narrative-Oriented Approach

    by Masuko Miyahara ...
    Series Book 89 - Second Language Acquisition
    This book uses a narrative-oriented approach to shed light on the processes of identity construction and development among Japanese university students of English. The research highlights the instrumental agency of individuals in responding to and acting upon the social environment, and in developing, maintaining and/or reconstructing their identities as L2 users. The study offers unique insights ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Multiple Perspectives on the Self in SLA

    Edited by Sarah Mercer, Marion Williams ...
    Series Book 73 - Second Language Acquisition
    Instead of viewing different perspectives on the self as competing with each other and considering one perspective on the self as being inherently ‘better’ than another, this book takes the view that a fuller, more comprehensive picture of the self in SLA can be gained by examining and combining insights from different perspectives. This original collection of papers thus attempts to provide a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Complexity in Classroom Foreign Language Learning Motivation

    A Practitioner Perspective from Japan

    by Richard J. Sampson ...
    Series Book 101 - Second Language Acquisition
    This book explores how complex systems theory can contribute to the understanding of classroom language learner motivation through an extended examination of one particular, situated research project. Working from the lived experience of the participants, the study describes how action research methods were used to explore the dynamic conditions operating in a foreign language classroom in Japan. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning

    Interdisciplinary Approaches

    Edited by Ping Deters, Dr. Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Elizabeth R. Miller, Gergana Vitanova ...
    Series Book 84 - Second Language Acquisition
    This book showcases how language learner agency can be understood and researched from varying perspectives by providing, for the first time, a collection of diverse approaches in one volume. The volume is organised into three main sections:the first sections offers an introduction to varying theoretical approaches to agency; the second section presents analyses of agency in a variety of empirical ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Demotivation in Second Language Acquisition

    Insights from Japan

    by Keita Kikuchi ...
    Series Book 90 - Second Language Acquisition
    SLA literature tends to focus predominantly on what motivates language learners, but what demotivates them has not been widely discussed. This book, focusing exclusively on demotivation, will help readers to understand motivational issues from a different perspective. The aims of the work are threefold: to present the current developments of demotivation research in the field of SLA and bridge ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning

    Edited by Zoltán Dörnyei, Dr. Peter D. MacIntyre, Alastair Henry ...
    Series Book 81 - Second Language Acquisition
    This landmark volume offers a collection of conceptual papers and empirical research studies that investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The contributors include some of the most well-established scholars from three continents, all addressing the question of how we can understand motivation if we perceive it as continuously changing and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD