The good language learner
By: N. Naiman ... [et al.] ; foreword by Christopher Brumfit.
Contributors: Naiman, Neil, 1946-
Series: Modern languages in practice ;; 4
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Clevedon [England]; Bristol, PA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Language and languages -- Study and teaching
Description: This book is one of the most influential research studies on Second Language Learning ever undertaken. The Good Language Learner addresses key problems for teachers about the strategies that successful learners use, the attitudes they show to the language they are learning, the nature of their most successful experiences and similar issues. It is based on the direct experience of a wide range of learners. It enables us to recognise the combined roles of fluency activity and natural communication on the one hand, and accuracy activity with formal understanding of the language system and the mistakes that one is liable to make as a learner, on the other hand. Few works of empirical analysis in language teaching have had so much influence, and this edition should be an essential component of any teacher's library in local authority centres, schools, teacher education institutions, and the home library of language teachers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-240).
Originally published: Toronto : Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1978. (Research in education series ; no. 7). With new forward.