Tag: Language Learning Psychology
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What’s love got to do with it?
Reacting to a bad paper, and some thoughts on the state of academic publishing in language education.
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Individuals in Contexts: Psychology of Language Learning 2
About this post: This is a post advertising an academic conference about the Psychology of Language Learning, which took place in 2016. The content is no longer current, and it is retained here for academic purposes only. You can read more about the conference at the website of the International Association for the Psychology of…
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Positive Psychology in SLA
In what ways can Positive Psychology inform the theory and practice of language education. This edited collection attempts to give some answers.
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Psychology and Language Learning (Call for papers)
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching are planning a special issue which will focus on the psychology of language learning and teaching. The issue will be guest-edited by Stephen Ryan (Senshu University) and Sarah Mercer (University of Graz). UPDATE July 2018: This call for papers appears to have been spectactularly successful, led to the publication of two…
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New Directions in Language Learning Psychology
An overview of a new volume by Gkonou, Tatzl and Mercer (2016), with a chapter by me and Juup Stelma.
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Matters of the Mind: Psychology of Language Learning
Update (June 2018) Following the success of this conference and its followup (PLL2), the way was paved for the creation of the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning. You can read more details about the conference (link no longer active, sorry!) in the website of the Association.