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Beliefs, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Learning English as a Foreign Language: From School Children to Young Adults

  3. Teaching Foreign Languages: From Novice Teachers to Experienced Professionals

  4. Conclusion

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About this book

This book explores the phenomena of believing (or giving personal meanings), acting, and identifying (or identity construction), and the interconnectedness of these phenomena in the learning and teaching of English and other foreign languages.

Reviews

“This is when the uniqueness and methodological rigor of the research studies recounted in the book come into view. … this book is insightful, enlightening, and enjoyable and recommended reading for every language learning and teaching program’s library.” (Melanie Taylor Gobert, Independence, February – March, 2019)​

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Jyväskylä, Finland

    Paula Kalaja, Mari Aro, Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty

  • Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil

    Ana Maria F. Barcelos

About the authors

Paula Kalaja is Professor of English at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She specializes in aspects of second language (L2) learning, including beliefs, attitudes, attributions, and aspects of L2 writing. She has co-authored and -edited a number of books including Beliefs about SLA: New Research Approaches (2003), Narratives of Learning and Teaching EFL (2008) and a number of textbooks.

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.

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