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The ideal L2 self is a person's imagined ideal future self as a second language speaker. [4] This ideal L2 self promotes motivation by inspiring the present self to strive to become the ideal self, which promotes integrative and internalized instrumental motivation in language learning. [17]
Dörnyei suggests five ways a teacher can build initial motivation in second language learning: (1) promoting language-related values and the benefits of knowing a second language; (2) increasing the expectancy of success; (3) encouraging goal setting; (4) ensuring teaching materials are relevant to learners; and (5) establishing realistic ...
[5] [6] There were various other studies in the 1970s, but the real boom in communication strategy scholarship came in the 1980s. This decade saw a flurry of papers describing and analyzing communication strategies, and saw Ellen Bialystok link communication strategies to her general theory of second-language acquisition. [ 6 ]
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... dynamic systems theory to study second language acquisition. [6] A book of ... Henry (Eds.), Motivational ...
Second language identities. London/New York: Continuum In this monograph, Block insightfully traces research interest in second language identities from the 1960s to the present. He draws on a wide range of social theories and brings a fresh analysis to studies of adult migrants, foreign language learners, and study-abroad students. Burck, C ...
The main purpose of theories of second-language acquisition (SLA) is to shed light on how people who already know one language learn a second language. The field of second-language acquisition involves various contributions, such as linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and education. These multiple fields ...
Second-language acquisition is defined as the learning and adopting of a language that is not the learner's native language. Studies [vague] have shown that extroverts acquire a second language better than introverts. [citation needed] One particular study done by Naiman [vague] reflected this point. The subjects were 72 Canadian high school ...