scholarly journals The emotional basis of the ideal multilingual self: the case of simultaneous language learners in China

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Emotional Basis ◽  
The Ideal

Positive Psychology in SLA

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Mercer
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Positive Education ◽  
Specific Approach ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract This article begins with an outline of the developments in Positive Psychology (PP) generally and specifically within SLA focusing on theoretical, empirical and practical developments. It moves on to consider PP’s potential contribution to language teaching focusing on how it can help promote emotional, social and psychological wellbeing for language learners and teachers. It explores the concept of ‘Positive Education’ and reflects on possible lessons from these broader developments for a specific approach to ‘Positive Language Education’. It is argued that PP facilitates new ways of thinking about language learning and can provide the ideal vehicle from which to foreground wellbeing as a concept and dual aim in language education.

scholarly journals Iranian Language Learners' Conceptions of the Ideal English Lesson: Form-focused or Communicative

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeedeh Kavoshian ◽  
Gholamreza Medadian ◽  
Mohammadreza Lorzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
The Ideal

scholarly journals Sticking with Spanish: Reasons for Study and Motivation Maintenance in Adult Beginner Distance Language Learners

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-60
Author(s):  
Concha Furnborough ◽  
James A. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Distance Learners ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Motivational Orientations ◽  
Ideal L2 Self ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract This paper examines the reasons for study of adult beginner distance learners of Spanish and the relationships between those reasons and motivation maintenance. A survey of 563 Open University UK students found motivational orientations distinct from those of young people in earlier studies. Adult learners who maintained their motivation also demonstrated a greater number of reasons for study. Their motivation embraced intrinsic and extrinsic, integrative and instrumental orientations, short-term and long-term ambitions, and an L2 self both ideal and realistically attainable. During their course module they focused more consistently than others on the language skills they had targeted, and expressed increased enjoyment of the learning experience. This study suggests that achieving ‘softer’ short-term goals encourages persistence towards longer-term goals which reflect the ideal L2 self.

scholarly journals Imagined Communities and Identities in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Learning: A Literature Review

JET ADI BUANA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Vu Anh Luong ◽  
Thao Quoc Tran
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
English Language Learning ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Efl Learning

Imagined community and identity have been recognized as critical aspects in English language learning. Imagined community refers to the ideal community that learners wish to get engaged in, while imagined identity refers to the ideal self that language learners wish to become in the future. However, there is a scant research on these two notions in relation to English as a foreign language (EFL) learning. To that end, this paper aims to present the literature review of the contemporary theories on imagined communities and identities in EFL learning. It first discusses the imagined communities regarding the functions, community of practice, notions of imagined communities and concepts of imagined EFL classroom communities. It then scrutinizes imagined identities in terms of poststructuralists’ theory, English language learners’ identities, notion of imagined identity and EFL learners’ imagined identity. This paper is hoped to provide a timely and needed conceptual framework for other relevant constructs (e.g., English language learning investment) in English language learning.

scholarly journals The emotional basis of the ideal multilingual self: The case of simultaneous language learners in China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
L2 Motivation ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
The Ideal

The present study contributes to the field of L2 motivation by exploringthe link between emotional experience in language learning andmotivational self from a multilingual perspective. Specifically, itevaluated the empirical support for the validity of the ideal multilingualself on simultaneous language learners in China and assessed therelationship between emotional experience (positive and negative) inlanguage learning and the ideal multilingual self using structuralequation modelling. Five hundred and twenty-three learners of Englishand languages other than English (LOTEs) in Chinese universitiesparticipated in the survey study. Findings established the constructvalidity of the ideal multilingual self and unveiled the significance andcomplexity of the link between emotion and motivation. Specifically,learners reported largely similar positive experiences in learning Englishand LOTEs and positive emotions in both languages were positivelylinked, with equal magnitude, to the ideal multilingual self. The patternsinvolving negative emotions were less consistent as learners reporteddiffering negative experiences in learning the two languages and onlynegative emotion in English learning was negatively linked to the idealmultilingual self. The complexity of patterns brings forth a morenuanced understanding of the connection between emotion andmultilingual motivation with pedagogical implications.

Localization of Intracellular Antigens in thin Sections with Ferritin Labeled Antibody

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 174-175
Author(s):  
M.S. Shahrabadi ◽  
T. Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Bovine Serum Albumin ◽  
Bovine Serum ◽  
Antigenic Determinants ◽  
Conjugate Prior ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Specific Attachment ◽  
Intracellular Antigen ◽  
Antigen Antibody ◽  
Ideal Method ◽  
The Ideal

The technique of labeling of macromolecules with ferritin conjugated antibody has been successfully used for extracellular antigen by means of staining the specimen with conjugate prior to fixation and embedding. However, the ideal method to determine the location of intracellular antigen would be to do the antigen-antibody reaction in thin sections. This technique contains inherent problems such as the destruction of antigenic determinants during fixation or embedding and the non-specific attachment of conjugate to the embedding media. Certain embedding media such as polyampholytes (2) or cross-linked bovine serum albumin (3) have been introduced to overcome some of these problems.

Criteria and Methods for Reliable Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 330-331
Author(s):  
R. A. Crowther
Keyword(s):  
Image Reconstruction ◽  
Finite Number ◽  
Density Distribution ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Mathematical Problem ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Ideal Case ◽  
Dimensional Image ◽  
General Object ◽  
The Ideal

The reconstruction of a three-dimensional image of a specimen from a set of electron micrographs reduces, under certain assumptions about the imaging process in the microscope, to the mathematical problem of reconstructing a density distribution from a set of its plane projections.In the absence of noise we can formulate a purely geometrical criterion, which, for a general object, fixes the resolution attainable from a given finite number of views in terms of the size of the object. For simplicity we take the ideal case of projections collected by a series of m equally spaced tilts about a single axis.

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