The Influence of Cultural Contexts in Learners' Attributions for Success and Failure in Foreign Language Learning

Ana Sofia Gonzalez (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

350 Seiten

2015 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-7447-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.2015
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4438-7447-7 / 1443874477
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-7447-2 / 9781443874472
Zustand	Neuware