Professor Cynthia White讲座预告
Enquiry into Emotion and Agency within Language Learning:
Significance, Challenges and Prospects
主讲人：ProfessorCynthia White
时间：2015年10月26日（周一）14:00~16:00
地点：新综合楼1125-1127
讲座提要：Recent years have witnessed increasing engagement with
the constructs of emotion and agency in applied linguistics research, and in
terms of their contribution to the complex dynamics of language learning. This
talk provides a critical analysis of the significance, challenges and prospects
of enquiry into emotion and agency in language learning through different
research tools with reference to two studies: the learning of Russian in study
abroad and in a distance telecollaborative exchange between learners of German
in New Zealand and learners of English in Germany. Data is presented showing
emotions as integral to students’ cognitive appraisals of tasks, the learning
environment and themselves, as well as to aspects of their individual agency
including their actions and decision-making in language learning. The talk
concludes with a discussion of the ways in which emotion and agency can be seen
as mutually constituted in the process of language learning, with emotion both
enabling and constraining agency, and agency shaping the dynamics of affectivity
within and across settings. Implications for theory, research and practice are
presented.
主讲人简介：Cynthia White is Professor of Applied Linguistics, and
Research Director within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey
University, New Zealand. She has published widely on distance and online
learning, learner autonomy, learning strategies, and emotion and agency in
language learning. She is a member of Editorial Boards of seven international
journals, and has been plenary speaker at international conferences in Germany,
Thailand, Singapore, China, UK, Hawai’i and Malaysia. She is external consultant
to the US government at the National Middle East Language Resource Centre for
Arabic distance learning initiatives. Cynthia has completed collaborative
research projects with Oxford University, Open University UK and Nottingham
University in online language teaching.
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