Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Now in its second edition, "Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context" charts the field systematically and coherently for the benefit of language learning practitioners, students, and researchers. This volume carries on the author's tradition of linking theoretical insights with readability and practical utility and offers an enhanced Strategic Self-Regulation Model. It is enhanced with many new features, such as the first-ever major content analysis of published learning strategy definitions, leading to a long-awaited, encompassing strategy definition. Rebecca Oxford provides an intensive discussion of self-regulation, agency, and related factors as the "soul of learning strategies." She brings the strategy field into the modern age with the first in-depth treatment of strategies and complexity theory.
A major section is devoted to applications of learning strategies in all language skill areas and in grammar and vocabulary. The last chapter presents innovations and potential innovations for strategy instruction, such as ways to deepen and differentiate it to meet individual needs, as well as the results of two meta-analyses on effects of strategy instruction. This revised edition includes extensive questions, tasks, and activities for readers, more emphasis on practical teaching with a wealth of examples, a new, scenario-based emotional-regulation questionnaire, and suggests promising strategy research methods. "