P Benson
Biographic Data
| ID | 10714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Benson |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Benson |
| SIGNATURE | BENSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1548-504X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The value of multilingualism for sustainable development: A case study of languages in Australia
This paper forwards the notion that languages are an important resource for sustainable development for modern societies. Informed by theories from both sociolinguistics and language economics on the value of language skills, it is suggested that language(s) have different kinds of value in multilingual societies. Sociolinguists often emphasize the value languages have to their speakers and highlight the importance of social justice and equality …
Autonomisation, individualisation and uses of space: Mapping out individual language learning environments
We are increasingly thinking of language learning in a global context as a matter of multiple diversities: diversities of learner biography, background and target languages, purposes, and settings for learning in and out of the classroom. This paper suggests that the common thread within these multiple diversities is that of learners mapping out individual language learning environments within the multilingual spaces in which they live, work, stu…
Commentary: Digital language and learning in the time of coronavirus
Space in narrative inquiry on second language learning
Ways of seeing: The individual and the social in applied linguistics research methodologies
Those who have advocated social approaches to applied linguistics have often been critical of the individualism of second language acquisition (SLA) research. This paper identifies the emergence of a more balanced view of the social and individual in recent work. Adopting Berger's (1972) metaphor of ‘ways of seeing’, it offers a history of applied linguistics based on three eras: the era of ‘the invisible learner’, the era of ‘learner-centredness…
A Road and a Forest: Conceptions of In‐Class and Out‐of‐Class Learning in the Transition to Study Abroad
Adopting an ecological perspective on context in second language learning, this study investigated the ways in which a group of Chinese students reconceptualized and reconstructed their learning environments in the first 3 months of study abroad in Australia. Focusing on the students’ conceptions of the relationship between in‐class and out‐of‐class learning, the study identified a shift from a view that the two contexts were separated in study a…
Research agenda: Language learning beyond the classroom
Most language learning research is carried out either in classrooms or among classroom learners. As Richards (2015) points out, however, there are two dimensions to successful learning: what happens inside classrooms and what happens outside them. Rapid development of online media, communications technologies and opportunities for travel has also expanded the world beyond the classroom for language learners. Language learning and teaching beyond …
Forthcoming in Language Teaching
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Language pedagogy and the changing landscapes of digital technology
The Discourse of YouTube: Multimodal Text in a Global Context
The evolution and current state of public affairs in Hungary
This paper discusses the recent developments in public affairs in Hungary from a historical perspective. The country's communist/socialist past and the relative novelty of the public affairs industry paint an interesting picture of the evolution and the direction of this field. The paper covers the political and economic processes starting from the transition period through recent events. Although there have been several promising developments in…
Second Language Identity in Narratives of Study Abroad
Study abroad is now both an international industry and an experience that can have a deep impact on students' attitudes and approaches to second language learning. Narratives of Second Language Identi
Learner Autonomy
English and identity in East Asian popular music
Linguistic diversity poses a significant but not insuperable obstacle to transnational flows of popular music in East Asia. This paper reviews strategies that are used to overcome language barriers, especially the use of English by mainstream artists. Although this strategy has met with some success, it can be problematic in that it involves the negotiation of new artist identities with audiences. This negotiation of identities is illustrated by …
Qualitative Methods: Overview
Discussions of qualitative research usually begin by contrasting qualitative with quantitative approaches. Quantitative research may best be defined as research that relies on the reduction of data to numbers and statistical argument, and typically aims to produce knowledge that holds true of relatively large populations. In applied linguistics, quantitative approaches are often underpinned by theoretical assumptions about universal language lear…
Study abroad and the development of second language identities
Much of the literature on study abroad outcomes focuses on language proficiency gains or on the influence of identity factors on opportunities for language learning. A smaller number of studies have looked at the influence of study abroad on participants' identities and have highlighted outcomes that might be placed under the heading of second language identity. Based on a review of this literature and a qualitative, narrative-based study of nine…
Language Learning Careers as an Object of Narrative Research in Tesol
The Liberia Project: Students Take History and Human Rights Into Their Own Hands
Prefatory note: One of the joys of working in human rights is the courage you take from your colleagues along the way. The teachers and students of Chautauqua Lake Central School taught me more about teaching across the curriculum and the power of vision than any group with whom I have worked. Like Eleanor Roosevelt, they believed that rights could not be separated from responsibilities and that “without concerted citizen action,” human rights wo…
Autonomy in the transition from foreign language learning to foreign language teaching
This paper discusses the historical development of the concept of teacher autonomy in foreign language education and its relationship to the idea of learner autonomy. Three major phases in the development of conceptions of teacher autonomy are reviewed, involving attention to teacher roles in autonomous learning projects, professional development and professional freedom. Different ways of conceptualising the link between teacher and learner auto…
Prefácio: Da Autonomia Na Aprendizagem À Autonomia No Ensino De Línguas
Autonomy in language teaching and learning
There has been a remarkable growth of interest in the theory and practice of autonomy in language teaching and learning in recent years. Focusing on work published since the turn of the 20th century, this review examines major trends in the recent literature on autonomy related to the emergence of alternative views of autonomy, new contexts of practice and interaction with concepts such as self-regulation, motivation, sociocultural theory and tea…
Children's recognition of caricatures
This study examined children's and adults' perception and recognition of facial stimuli that were either systematically exaggerated (caricatures) or de-exaggerated (anticaricatures) relative to a norm face. The results showed that all age groups perceived caricatures as the most distinctive versions of a face and anticaricatures as the least distinctive, although the effect was smallest for 6-year-olds. In general, caricatures were identified as …
Is symmetry a visual cue to attractiveness in the human female body?
Hong Kong words: Variation and context
The ideal description of a variety of English is one that is constructed within the terms of the variety itself. This paper discusses a number of issues involved in such a description in relation to the distinctive vocabulary of Hong Kong English. Attention to semantic and pragmatic relationships internal to the variety and the sociocultural context in which it operates is urged. These are illustrated with examples related to underlying definitio…
Conceptions of language and language learning
Autonomy in language teaching and learning
There has been a remarkable growth of interest in the theory and practice of autonomy in language teaching and learning in recent years. Focusing on work published since the turn of the 20th century, this review examines major trends in the recent literature on autonomy related to the emergence of alternative views of autonomy, new contexts of practice and interaction with concepts such as self-regulation, motivation, sociocultural theory and tea…
Conceptions of language and language learning
Research agenda: Language learning beyond the classroom
Most language learning research is carried out either in classrooms or among classroom learners. As Richards (2015) points out, however, there are two dimensions to successful learning: what happens inside classrooms and what happens outside them. Rapid development of online media, communications technologies and opportunities for travel has also expanded the world beyond the classroom for language learners. Language learning and teaching beyond …
The Discourse of YouTube: Multimodal Text in a Global Context
Learner autonomy 5: The role of motivation
Space in narrative inquiry on second language learning
Learner Autonomy
Hong Kong words: Variation and context
The ideal description of a variety of English is one that is constructed within the terms of the variety itself. This paper discusses a number of issues involved in such a description in relation to the distinctive vocabulary of Hong Kong English. Attention to semantic and pragmatic relationships internal to the variety and the sociocultural context in which it operates is urged. These are illustrated with examples related to underlying definitio…
Ways of seeing: The individual and the social in applied linguistics research methodologies
Those who have advocated social approaches to applied linguistics have often been critical of the individualism of second language acquisition (SLA) research. This paper identifies the emergence of a more balanced view of the social and individual in recent work. Adopting Berger's (1972) metaphor of ‘ways of seeing’, it offers a history of applied linguistics based on three eras: the era of ‘the invisible learner’, the era of ‘learner-centredness…
A Road and a Forest: Conceptions of In‐Class and Out‐of‐Class Learning in the Transition to Study Abroad
Adopting an ecological perspective on context in second language learning, this study investigated the ways in which a group of Chinese students reconceptualized and reconstructed their learning environments in the first 3 months of study abroad in Australia. Focusing on the students’ conceptions of the relationship between in‐class and out‐of‐class learning, the study identified a shift from a view that the two contexts were separated in study a…
Language Learning Careers as an Object of Narrative Research in Tesol
Autonomy in the transition from foreign language learning to foreign language teaching
This paper discusses the historical development of the concept of teacher autonomy in foreign language education and its relationship to the idea of learner autonomy. Three major phases in the development of conceptions of teacher autonomy are reviewed, involving attention to teacher roles in autonomous learning projects, professional development and professional freedom. Different ways of conceptualising the link between teacher and learner auto…
Children's recognition of caricatures
This study examined children's and adults' perception and recognition of facial stimuli that were either systematically exaggerated (caricatures) or de-exaggerated (anticaricatures) relative to a norm face. The results showed that all age groups perceived caricatures as the most distinctive versions of a face and anticaricatures as the least distinctive, although the effect was smallest for 6-year-olds. In general, caricatures were identified as …
Familism and Marital Success
Journal Article Familism and Marital Success Get access Purnell Benson Purnell Benson Drew University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 33, Issue 3, March 1955, Pages 277–280, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572894 Published: 01 March 1955
Screening desire
Journal Article Screening desire Get access Peter Benson Peter Benson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 31, Issue 4, Winter 1990, Pages 377–389, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/31.4.377 Published: 01 December 1990
Learner autonomy 5: The role of motivation
Conceptions of language and language learning
Is symmetry a visual cue to attractiveness in the human female body?
Hong Kong words: Variation and context
The ideal description of a variety of English is one that is constructed within the terms of the variety itself. This paper discusses a number of issues involved in such a description in relation to the distinctive vocabulary of Hong Kong English. Attention to semantic and pragmatic relationships internal to the variety and the sociocultural context in which it operates is urged. These are illustrated with examples related to underlying definitio…
Children's recognition of caricatures
This study examined children's and adults' perception and recognition of facial stimuli that were either systematically exaggerated (caricatures) or de-exaggerated (anticaricatures) relative to a norm face. The results showed that all age groups perceived caricatures as the most distinctive versions of a face and anticaricatures as the least distinctive, although the effect was smallest for 6-year-olds. In general, caricatures were identified as …
Autonomy in language teaching and learning
There has been a remarkable growth of interest in the theory and practice of autonomy in language teaching and learning in recent years. Focusing on work published since the turn of the 20th century, this review examines major trends in the recent literature on autonomy related to the emergence of alternative views of autonomy, new contexts of practice and interaction with concepts such as self-regulation, motivation, sociocultural theory and tea…
The Liberia Project: Students Take History and Human Rights Into Their Own Hands
Prefatory note: One of the joys of working in human rights is the courage you take from your colleagues along the way. The teachers and students of Chautauqua Lake Central School taught me more about teaching across the curriculum and the power of vision than any group with whom I have worked. Like Eleanor Roosevelt, they believed that rights could not be separated from responsibilities and that “without concerted citizen action,” human rights wo…
Autonomy in the transition from foreign language learning to foreign language teaching
This paper discusses the historical development of the concept of teacher autonomy in foreign language education and its relationship to the idea of learner autonomy. Three major phases in the development of conceptions of teacher autonomy are reviewed, involving attention to teacher roles in autonomous learning projects, professional development and professional freedom. Different ways of conceptualising the link between teacher and learner auto…
Prefácio: Da Autonomia Na Aprendizagem À Autonomia No Ensino De Línguas
Language Learning Careers as an Object of Narrative Research in Tesol
Qualitative Methods: Overview
Discussions of qualitative research usually begin by contrasting qualitative with quantitative approaches. Quantitative research may best be defined as research that relies on the reduction of data to numbers and statistical argument, and typically aims to produce knowledge that holds true of relatively large populations. In applied linguistics, quantitative approaches are often underpinned by theoretical assumptions about universal language lear…
Study abroad and the development of second language identities
Much of the literature on study abroad outcomes focuses on language proficiency gains or on the influence of identity factors on opportunities for language learning. A smaller number of studies have looked at the influence of study abroad on participants' identities and have highlighted outcomes that might be placed under the heading of second language identity. Based on a review of this literature and a qualitative, narrative-based study of nine…
Second Language Identity in Narratives of Study Abroad
Study abroad is now both an international industry and an experience that can have a deep impact on students' attitudes and approaches to second language learning. Narratives of Second Language Identi
Learner Autonomy
English and identity in East Asian popular music
Linguistic diversity poses a significant but not insuperable obstacle to transnational flows of popular music in East Asia. This paper reviews strategies that are used to overcome language barriers, especially the use of English by mainstream artists. Although this strategy has met with some success, it can be problematic in that it involves the negotiation of new artist identities with audiences. This negotiation of identities is illustrated by …
The evolution and current state of public affairs in Hungary
This paper discusses the recent developments in public affairs in Hungary from a historical perspective. The country's communist/socialist past and the relative novelty of the public affairs industry paint an interesting picture of the evolution and the direction of this field. The paper covers the political and economic processes starting from the transition period through recent events. Although there have been several promising developments in…
Forthcoming in Language Teaching
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Language pedagogy and the changing landscapes of digital technology
The Discourse of YouTube: Multimodal Text in a Global Context
Research agenda: Language learning beyond the classroom
Most language learning research is carried out either in classrooms or among classroom learners. As Richards (2015) points out, however, there are two dimensions to successful learning: what happens inside classrooms and what happens outside them. Rapid development of online media, communications technologies and opportunities for travel has also expanded the world beyond the classroom for language learners. Language learning and teaching beyond …
A Road and a Forest: Conceptions of In‐Class and Out‐of‐Class Learning in the Transition to Study Abroad
Adopting an ecological perspective on context in second language learning, this study investigated the ways in which a group of Chinese students reconceptualized and reconstructed their learning environments in the first 3 months of study abroad in Australia. Focusing on the students’ conceptions of the relationship between in‐class and out‐of‐class learning, the study identified a shift from a view that the two contexts were separated in study a…
Ways of seeing: The individual and the social in applied linguistics research methodologies
Those who have advocated social approaches to applied linguistics have often been critical of the individualism of second language acquisition (SLA) research. This paper identifies the emergence of a more balanced view of the social and individual in recent work. Adopting Berger's (1972) metaphor of ‘ways of seeing’, it offers a history of applied linguistics based on three eras: the era of ‘the invisible learner’, the era of ‘learner-centredness…
Commentary: Digital language and learning in the time of coronavirus
Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (13 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (13 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Mathematics education (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Pedagogy (8 works)