Affect in Language Learning

Cambridge Language Teaching Library

by Jane Arnold (Editor)

The affective domain and the emotional factors which influence language learning have been of interest in the field of language teaching for a number of years. By proposing a holistic approach to the learning process, this volume takes the position that the language learning experience will be much more effective when both affect and cognition are considered. The eighteen chapters discuss issues such as memory, anxiety, self-esteem, facilitation, autonomy, classroom activities, and assessment from the perspective of affect. Affect in Language Learning will be of interest to teachers-in-preparation, teachers, teacher educators, curriculum designers, programme administrators and researchers and to those second language teaching professionals who wish to improve language teaching through a greater awareness of the role affect plays.

Genres: Nonfiction, Language

364 pages, Paperback

First published January 14, 1999

About the author

Jane Arnold is Professor of ELT methodology in the English Language Department at the University of Seville (Spain). She is on advisory boards for several language teaching organizations and journals. Working with both English and Spanish as second languages, she has given plenaries and workshops and taught modules for Masters programmes in several European countries, in Morocco, Algeria, the United States, Argentina and Singapore. She is convinced that when teaching is affective it becomes more effective.

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