Research as a tool for empowerment : theory informing practice

Research as a Tool for Empowerment: Theory Informing Practice is an edited volume that includes an array of research-based chapters that not only further the field of second/foreign language research, but also provide practical implications to language classrooms in international and national settin...

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Other Authors Schwarzer, David (Editor), Bloom, Melanie (Editor), Shono, Sarah (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2006]
SeriesResearch in second language learning.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918116182
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-691-9
Physical Description1 online resource (404 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreign language anxiety : a close look at nonnative foreign language teachers / Lorena Canessa
  • Foreign language classroom: voices from nonnative teachers / Chia-Chien Chang
  • Teacher research and student needs : a recipe for invention / Simone Hanesch, Rob Martinsen, and Kirstin Engelhardt
  • Negotiating the ESL curriculum in an adult literacy program : a teacher-researcher's perspective / Clarena Larrotta
  • Changing the way the game is played (and reported) : learning in an inquiry-based foreign Language curriculum / Chris Luke
  • Inventing a Spanish classroom : responding to students' voices / Melanie Bloom
  • Empowering parents and children : the case for qualitative parent-child L2 research / Sun-Joo Kim
  • Heritage language learners' voices : the "Spanish for Spanish Speakers" experience in a rural midwestern high school / Charla Neuroth Lorenzen
  • Noa's Ark is resting : insights from a multiliterate child's journey / David Schwarzer
  • The unstable role of context : a comparison of research instruments / Clay Butler
  • Sharing your toys : reciprocity as a basis for research relationships / Mary Petron
  • Empowering researchers and nonnative learners through interviews / Sarah Shono
  • Empowerment through research : future directions / David Schwarzer, Melanie Bloom, and Sarah Shono.