Learner autonomy is a shift from teacher-centered learning to learner-centered learning. This shift has some implications for learning activities and learning strategies. At the same time, a wide variety of factors may affect both learner autonomy and language learning strategies. This book focuses on motivation and attitude. It is an investigation into the relationship between these two factors and learner autonomy as well as the effect of motivation and attitude level on the choice of language learning strategies. Apart from a theoretical review, empirical analyses are done and the results...

Helping EFL learners write accurately and finding appropriate ways of dealing with learner errors have always been the concern of many teachers. Errors are important clues for teachers to decide on which mode of corrective feedback to provide. This book focuses on the study of the effects of corrective feedback modes (direct, coded, and uncoded) on EFL learners' grammatical and lexical writing accuracy. It also investigates the learners' perceptions as to the way corrective feedback modes may influence writing accuracy. It offers an extensive theoretical review as well as detailed empirical...

Learning a foreign language involves far more than simply learning its linguistic system. To be able to communicate successfully in a foreign language, learners need, among other things, a degree of acculturation. This means that they need to familiarize themselves with certain sociolinguistic norms surrounding language use. Failure to consider such sociolinguistic factors might result in a breakdown in communication despite the use of accurate language forms. At the same time, gratitude and suggestion speech acts are among the frequently needed functions of language. The aim of the present...