Psychology for Language Teachers

This book examines the field of educational psychology and considers how insights from the discipline may be of some use in language teaching. Areas considered in the book include approaches to learning, motivation, attribution, mediation, the role of the individual, the cognitive demands of tasks and the learning environment.

1 An introduction to educational psychology: behaviourism and cognitive psychology
2 Further schools of thought in psychology: humanism and social interactionism
3 What do teachers bring to the teaching-learning process?
4 What can teachers do to promote learning?
5 The contribution of the individual student to the learning process
6 What makes a person want to learn? Motivation in language learning
7 How does the learner deal with the process of learning?
8 The place of tasks in the language classroom
9 The learning context
10 Putting it all together

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Psychology for Language Teachers

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