Rebecca L Oxford
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3477589 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rebecca L Oxford |
| PRENOMES | Rebecca L |
| SOBRENOME | Oxford |
| ASSINATURA | OXFORD R L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5387-7285 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 375 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Immigrants’ and refugees’ ‘funds of knowledge(s)’ on the path to intercultural competence
Funds of knowledges are the accumulated intellectual, social, and cultural competencies that all students bring to educational settings. Immigrants and refugees necessarily experience emotional, material, linguistic, cultural, and legal struggles as they transit from home countries to host countries. Their experiences expand the funds of knowledges that they develop. Education must respond to the needs of these students. A profound educational re…
Consciously Keeping Watch
Peacebuilding in Language Education
This book shares wisdom and strategies to help language teachers, teacher educators, and peace educators communicate peace, contribute to peace and weave peacebuilding into classrooms and daily life. The book’s Language of Peace Approach and more than 50 creative activities nurture peacebuilding skills in students, educators and the community.
Peace education from the grassroots
The need for Ian Harris’ book, Peace education from the grassroots, is apparent in these days of global violence, civil wars, school bullying, and violence at political rallies. The preface notes t
Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies
Now in its second edition, Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context charts the field systematically and coherently for the benefit of language learning practitioners, students, and researchers. This volume carries on the author's tradition of linking theoretical insights with readability and practical utility and offers an enhanced Strategic Self-Regulation Model. It is enriched by many new features, such …
A valuable interculturalism book for a tense time in history
A language is a mentality”
Children's learning strategy use and the effects of strategy instruction on success in learning ESL in Canada
The learning strategy prism
Focus on context
Learning language through music
The twenty-first century landscape of language learning strategies
Experts' personal metaphors and similes about language learning strategies
A diary study focusing on listening and speaking
The Language of Peace
The Language of Peace: Communicating to Create Harmony offers practical insights for educators, students, researchers, peace activists, and all others interested in communication for peace. This book is a perfect text for courses in peace education, communications, media, culture, and other fields. Individuals concerned about violence, war, and peace will find this volume both crucial and informative. This book sheds light on peaceful versus dest…
Transformative Eco-Education for Human and Planetary Survival
Transformative eco-education is environmental education that is literally needed to transform and save our planet, especially during the global ecological crises of our present century. Such education demands inner transformation of many deeply rooted ideas, such as the following: the Earth exists merely to provide for human comfort; the extinction or reduction of other species does not matter; we are free to consume or destroy natural resources …
Strategies for learning a second or foreign language
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A brief overview of individual differences in second language learning
Language learning strategies
Introduction This chapter reviews theory and research in the realm of language learning strategies and provides implications for teaching and future research. Learning strategies are ‘operations employed by the learner to aid the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information, specific actions taken by the learner to make learning easier, faster, more enjoyable, more self-directed, more effective and more transferable to new situations’. …
Perspectives of preservice foreign language teachers
Changing roles for teachers in the English Village Course in Korea
Clashing metaphors about classroom teachers
Portrait of a future teacher
Many individuals persevere through their school and university years with undiagnosed, language-related learning disabilities. This article describes a future teacher who is partially bilingual. Her problems with auditory memory and auditory processing speed were severe, and as a result her performance in reading and writing suffered. Because of her concerns for people such as herself who must deal with language-related learning disabilities, she…
Constructivism
The introduction raises basic issues about the many contradictory shapes of constructivism and the possible existence of a central substance or philosophical core that can be called constructivism. The ontological and epistemological dimensions of constructivism that help mold the different shapes are highlighted in the introduction. Next comes an analysis of constructivist shape-shifting from Piaget to the social constructivists, followed by a s…
Cognition Plus
This article examines the relationships of a variety of individual difference variables to end‐of‐training proficiency ratings in speaking and reading for a large sample of adults in intensive training in a wide range of languages at the U.S. Department of State. Variables included tested cognitive aptitude, learning strategies, learning styles, personality, motivation, and anxiety. Although tested cognitive aptitude showed the strongest correlat…
Assessing the use of language learning strategies worldwide with the ESL/EFL version of the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (Sill)
Research on Language Learning Strategies
Use of language learning strategies
A Closer Look at Learning Strategies, L2 Proficiency, and Gender
This study builds on previous research using the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL). Most previous SILL research has made comparisons across the entire survey or in terms of strategy categories and has stressed proficiency level at the expense of other variables. The present largescale (N = 374) study of language learning strategy use by students at three different course levels at the University of Puerto Rico relates strategy use t…
Vive la Différence? Reflections on Sex Differences in Use of Language Learning Strategies
Sex has been omitted as a variable in most research on language learning strategies. This is a serious omission, given that sex is typically a significant predictor in other educational, psychological, and linguistic research. This article reports on the few studies which have explored sex differences in the use of language learning strategies. The authors of this article speculate why females appear to use afar wider range of language learning s…
A brief overview of individual differences in second language learning
A crosscultural view of learning styles
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Clashing metaphors about classroom teachers
Adults' language learning strategies in an intensive foreign language program in the United States
The twenty-first century landscape of language learning strategies
Strategy Training for Language Learners
As teachers, we all want to help learners discover how to learn languages more effectively and more easily. One way of doing this is strategy training, which has recently caught the imagination of researchers and teachers in many parts of the globe. The article's four purposes are: a) to summarize existing research on use of learning strategies and on conducting strategy training; b) to present six situational case studies of strategy training, w…
Foreign Languages in Elementary and Secondary Schools
The Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR), through funding from the U.S. Department of Education, sought to address the issue of the status of foreign language instruction by conducting a national survey of elementary and secondary schools. This article presents the results of questionnaires completed by principals and foreign language teachers at 1,416 elementary schools and 1,349 secondary schools. The respondents represented publi…
Learning a language by satellite television
Japanese by Satellite
This article describes a study of 107 high school students who were learning Japanese through the medium of satellite television. The investigation focused on factors that influence student achievement in Japanese in the satellite setting. Results showed motivation was the best predictor of Japanese language achievement, but the use of language learning strategies was also highly influential Students who frequently used learning strategies perfor…
Language learning styles
Language Learning Strategies, the Communicative Approach, and their Classroom Implications
The principles of the communicative approach to language learning and teaching foster the use of appropriate, positive learning strategies. Communicative principles and learning strategies, in combination, have powerful implications for the language classroom
A diary study focusing on listening and speaking
Second language vocabulary learning among adults
Language acquisition
Learning language through music
Experts' personal metaphors and similes about language learning strategies
Children's learning strategy use and the effects of strategy instruction on success in learning ESL in Canada
Focus on context
Attending to Learner Reactions to Introductory Spanish Textbooks
The Best and the Worst”
Thiy article presents an exercise useful for rapping perceptions of participants' hest und worst lunguage‐learning experiences and the strulegies these individuals used in such experiences. Inforrnal results across six training sessions are presented. Positive language‐learning situations stimulated the use of a wide range of learning strategies, while negative situations stunted strategy use, restricting it mainly to strategies that helped learn…
Vive la Différence? Reflections on Sex Differences in Use of Language Learning Strategies
Sex has been omitted as a variable in most research on language learning strategies. This is a serious omission, given that sex is typically a significant predictor in other educational, psychological, and linguistic research. This article reports on the few studies which have explored sex differences in the use of language learning strategies. The authors of this article speculate why females appear to use afar wider range of language learning s…
Foreign Languages in Elementary and Secondary Schools
The Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR), through funding from the U.S. Department of Education, sought to address the issue of the status of foreign language instruction by conducting a national survey of elementary and secondary schools. This article presents the results of questionnaires completed by principals and foreign language teachers at 1,416 elementary schools and 1,349 secondary schools. The respondents represented publi…
Variables Affecting Choice of Language Learning Strategies by University Students
Use of language learning strategies
Language Learning Strategies, the Communicative Approach, and their Classroom Implications
The principles of the communicative approach to language learning and teaching foster the use of appropriate, positive learning strategies. Communicative principles and learning strategies, in combination, have powerful implications for the language classroom
The Best and the Worst”
Thiy article presents an exercise useful for rapping perceptions of participants' hest und worst lunguage‐learning experiences and the strulegies these individuals used in such experiences. Inforrnal results across six training sessions are presented. Positive language‐learning situations stimulated the use of a wide range of learning strategies, while negative situations stunted strategy use, restricting it mainly to strategies that helped learn…
Research on Language Learning Strategies
Strategy Training for Language Learners
As teachers, we all want to help learners discover how to learn languages more effectively and more easily. One way of doing this is strategy training, which has recently caught the imagination of researchers and teachers in many parts of the globe. The article's four purposes are: a) to summarize existing research on use of learning strategies and on conducting strategy training; b) to present six situational case studies of strategy training, w…
Language acquisition
Language learning styles
Learning a language by satellite television
Language Learning Strategies
Attending to Learner Reactions to Introductory Spanish Textbooks
Japanese by Satellite
This article describes a study of 107 high school students who were learning Japanese through the medium of satellite television. The investigation focused on factors that influence student achievement in Japanese in the satellite setting. Results showed motivation was the best predictor of Japanese language achievement, but the use of language learning strategies was also highly influential Students who frequently used learning strategies perfor…
Language Learning Motivation
Second language pronunciation
Second language vocabulary learning among adults
Integrating the language skills
Cognition Plus
This article examines the relationships of a variety of individual difference variables to end‐of‐training proficiency ratings in speaking and reading for a large sample of adults in intensive training in a wide range of languages at the U.S. Department of State. Variables included tested cognitive aptitude, learning strategies, learning styles, personality, motivation, and anxiety. Although tested cognitive aptitude showed the strongest correlat…
Assessing the use of language learning strategies worldwide with the ESL/EFL version of the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (Sill)
Adults' language learning strategies in an intensive foreign language program in the United States
A Closer Look at Learning Strategies, L2 Proficiency, and Gender
This study builds on previous research using the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL). Most previous SILL research has made comparisons across the entire survey or in terms of strategy categories and has stressed proficiency level at the expense of other variables. The present largescale (N = 374) study of language learning strategy use by students at three different course levels at the University of Puerto Rico relates strategy use t…
A crosscultural view of learning styles
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Constructivism
The introduction raises basic issues about the many contradictory shapes of constructivism and the possible existence of a central substance or philosophical core that can be called constructivism. The ontological and epistemological dimensions of constructivism that help mold the different shapes are highlighted in the introduction. Next comes an analysis of constructivist shape-shifting from Piaget to the social constructivists, followed by a s…
Perspectives of preservice foreign language teachers
Psychology (39 obras) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (34 obras) · Mathematics education (31 obras) · Linguistics (25 obras) · Computer Science (24 obras) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (22 obras) · Pedagogy (16 obras) · Philosophy (16 obras) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (13 obras) · Language acquisition (12 obras)