Affect in language learning

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The affective domain and the emotional factors which influence language learning have been of interest in the field of language teaching for a number of years. By proposing a holistic approach to the learning process, Affect in Language Learning takes the position that the language learning experience will be much more effective when both affect and cognition are considered. The eighteen chapters discuss issues such as memory, anxiety, self-esteem, facilitation, autonomy, classroom activities, and assessment from the perspective of affect. The book will be of interest to teachers-in-preparation, teachers, teacher educators, curriculum designers, programme administrators and researchers and to those second language teaching professionals who wish to improve language teaching through a greater awareness of the role affect plays.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Part I Introduction
• 1 A map of the terrain
• Part II Exploring the Learner's Space
• 2 A neurobiological perspective on affect and methodology in second language learning
• 3 Affect in learning and memory: from alchemy to chemistry
• 4 Anxiety and the language learner: new insights
• 5 Ego boundaries and tolerance of ambiguity in second language learning
• 6 Self-esteem in the classroom or the metamorphosis of butterflies
• Part III Exploring the Teacher's Space
• 7 Learning to think, feel and teach reflectively
• 8 Facilitation in language teaching
• 9 Affect and the role of teachers in the development of learner autonomy
• 10 The role of group dynamics in foreign language learning and teaching
• Questions and tasks
• Part IV Exploring the Interactional Space
• 11 Enhancing personal development: humanistic activities at work
• 12 The humanistic exercise
• 13 Learning by heart: a Lozanov perspective Grethe
• 14 Cooperative language learning and affective factors
• 15 Creating a learning culture to which students want to belong: the application of Neuro-Linguistic Programming to language teaching
• 16 Visualization: language learning with the mind's eye
• 17 Authentic assessment in affective foreign language education
• Questions and tasks
• Part V Epilogue
• 18 Affect in the classroom: problems, politics and pragmatics
• References
• Subject index
• Author index