The Personal World of the Language Learner
This book presents a radical turn in Second Language Acquisition research by introducing a conceptual paradigm that challenges rationalist, instrumental and empiricist approaches to language learning theory. It argues for a shift in focus from measuring t
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The Personal World of the Language Learner
Cristina Ros i Solé
The Personal World of the Language Learner
Cristina Ros i Solé King’s College London United Kingdom The Open University United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-52852-0 ISBN 978-1-137-52853-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52853-7
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To Klaus, Luke and Lee
FOREWORD
“Language learners may not follow a straight route or path, but may get caught in circular paths and loops, in unexpected directions, forming complex networks.” In his book Lines: A Brief History the Anthropologist Tim Ingold maintains that we have left the ground and turned place into space, into occupying structures, rather than singly and together, producing our own lives (Ingold 2007). He calls for an alternative account of working with not doing to. In this he is influenced by the distinction made by Deleuze and Guattari (Deleuze and Guattari 1988) between what they term ‘lines of flight’ and ‘lines of becoming’. Ingold develops the idea of lines of becoming into lines of inhabitions, wayfaring and story-telling which move along and through the world, rather than skimming its surface. For decades the paradigms, born of positivism, which have dominated language pedagogy have been shaped by concepts and theories which accord most fully with building on the surface and ‘doing language to’ learners rather than working wi
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