Overview
Attribution theory has attracted considerable attention in recent years, especially in the field of language learning. A great share of the research conducted in this area has attempted to uncover factors that could influence learners' perceptions of success and failure in foreign language learning. Particular emphasis has been given to factors like age, gender, perceived level of success, and language studied, and some suggestions that learners' cultures also play a part have been made, although conclusions based on researchers' assumptions of learners' culture characteristics can run the risk of falling into stereotyping.This book is the result of research conducted to show that learners' cultural characteristics (previously researched and analysed by means of grounded theory and factor analysis) may influence not only the attributions mentioned by them for their successes and failures in learning English, but also the way learners see these attributions in terms of their dimensions of locus of causality, stability and controllability (a classification that has been regarded as common-sense and has, therefore, often been made by researchers themselves).This book will be of interest to scholars whose research focus is in theories of motivation and self-theories, especially as they are applied to learning in general, and language learning in particular. It will also be useful to language teachers, especially those working in foreign language learning contexts as they are in a good position to identify reasons for their learners' lack of motivation caused by their success and failure perceptions, and may have some ideas on how to retrain learners' attributions, particularly those which are more external and stable.
Full Product Details
Author: Ana Sofia Gonzalez
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Weight: 1.134kg
ISBN: 9781443874472
ISBN 10: 1443874477
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 31 July 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Ana Sofia Gonzalez is Lecturer and Teacher Trainer at ISCED-Luanda, Angola, and an English Teacher at Universidade Lusíada de Angola. She has been working in English Language Teaching (ELT) for 16 years and in curriculum development and ESP for nine. She received an MA in ELT and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading, UK. Her present research interests focus on motivation theories (especially attribution theory) and self-theories.
