{"id":19083,"date":"2011-11-04T18:48:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19083"},"modified":"2011-11-04T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:48:42","slug":"individual-differences-in-language-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19083&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Individual Differences in Language Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title<\/strong>: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Instructors:<\/strong> Professor Jelena Mihaljevi\u0107 Djigunovi\u0107, PhD.
ECTS credits<\/strong>: 3
Status<\/strong>: elective
Semester<\/strong>: IX
Enrollment requirements<\/strong>: none
Course description<\/strong>: Attitudes; motivation; language anxiety; learning styles; learning strategies; willingness to communicate; communication strategies; language learning aptitude; age; research into individual differences; dealing with individual differences.
Objectives<\/strong>: Enable students to understand the concept of individual learner differences and recognise their impact in FL learning; develop competences for carrying out and reporting on small scale research in the field of individual differences; enable students to deal with individual differences in EFL teaching at different levels.
Students will develop competences for a flexible approach to teaching English to learners of different characteristics and in different teaching environments.
Course requirements<\/strong>: Students will be expected to read the literature assigned by the course instructor. High level of participation, especially in seminars, is expected. Students who pass the three revision tests do not have to sit for the final oral exam.
Week by week schedule<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Week<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nTopics<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/span><\/td>\nIntroduction; Key concepts<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/span><\/td>\nSuccessful and unsuccessful language learners<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\nResearching individual differences<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/span><\/td>\nAttitudes and motivation<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/span><\/td>\nREVISION – Test 1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\nLanguage anxiety<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/span><\/td>\nWillingness to communicate<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/span><\/td>\nLearning styles and language learning strategies I<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/span><\/td>\nLearning styles and language learning strategies II<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/span><\/td>\nREVISION – Test 2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/span><\/td>\nAge<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/span><\/td>\nLanguage aptitude<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/span><\/td>\nCommunication strategies<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/span><\/td>\nDealing with individual differences in the classroom<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/span><\/td>\nREVISION – Test 3<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Required reading:<\/strong>
– D\u00f6rnyei, Z. (2005). The Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition<\/em>. Mahwah, N.J.: J. Erlbaum Associates. [selected chapters]
– Mihaljevi\u0107 Djigunovi\u0107, J. (1998). Afektivni faktori u u\u010denju stranoga jezika<\/em>. Zagreb: Filozofski fakultet. [selected chapters]
– Arabski, J. & Wojtaszek, A. (Eds.) (2011). Individual learner differences in SLA<\/em>. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. [selected chapters]<\/span><\/p>\n

Recommended reading:<\/strong>
– Arnold, J. (1999). Affect in Language Learning<\/em>. Cambridge: CUP.
– Mihaljevi\u0107 Djigunovi\u0107, J. (2002). Strah od stranoga jezika \u2013 kako nastaje, kako se o\u010dituje i kako ga se osloboditi<\/em>. Zagreb: Naklada Ljevak.
– Mihaljevi\u0107 Djigunovi\u0107, J. & Bagari\u0107, V. (2007). A comparative study of attitudes and motivation of Croatian learners of English and German, SRAZ<\/em>, LII, 259-281.
– Mihaljevi\u0107 Djigunovi\u0107, J. & Legac, V. (2008). Foreign language anxiety and listening comprehension of monolingual and bilingual EFL learners. SRAZ<\/em> 53: 327-347.
– Mihaljevi\u0107 Djigunovi\u0107, J. & Letica, S. (2009). Spremnost na komunikaciju i u\u010denje stranoga jezika, Lingvistika javne komunikacije: Komunikacija u nastavi i komunikacijska gramatika<\/em> (edited by Pavi\u010di\u0107 Taka\u010d, V. Bagari\u0107, M Brdar & M. Omazi\u0107), Osijek: HDPL, 1-11.
– Skehan, P. (1989). Individual Differences in Second Language Learning<\/em>. London: Edward Arnold.
– Articles from journals: Applied Linguistics; Language Learning; SRAZ; Strani jezici; Studies in Second Language Acquisition; TESOL Quarterly; System, International Review of Applied Linguistics<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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