商品簡介
This book presents a radical turn in Second Language Acquisition by introducing a conceptual paradigm that challenges rationalist, instrumental and empiricist approaches to language learning theory. It argues for a shift of focus from the measuring and the effectiveness of language learning processes to humanising the language learning experience. This new paradigm explores the force of affect, the imagination and creativity and their pull for assembling language learners’ intimate worlds. ‘The personal’ is reclaimed and acts as the motivation and driving force for language learning and the sphere in which learners engage both their minds and their bodies in a constant socialization of feelings and emotions. Language learning is seen as inhabiting and dwelling in a secretly figured world of new meanings and sensations which turns out to be a life-changing experience.
作者簡介
Cristina Ros i Sole is a Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London and the Open University, UK. She is an applied linguist and a language education specialist, and has published extensively in the area of language learning and intercultural communication.
