Rebecca L. Oxford - Teaching and Researching Language-Learning Strategies

This inspiring, innovative volume will captivate both strategy experts andnewcomers. Oxfords profound theoretical explanations of strategicself-regulation are supported by real-life scenarios, comprehensive reviews ofresearch, and beautifully painted mental images and metaphors. Oxford explainscomplex ideas in a clear, down-to-earth manner. Readers, prepare yourselves forlively excursions of the mind and plenty of aha moments.

Carmen M. Amerstorfer, Alpen-Adria-Universitt Klagenfurt, Austria

Now in its second edition, Teaching and Researching Language LearningStrategies: Self-Regulation in Context charts the field systematicallyand coherently for the benefit of language learning practitioners, students, andresearchers. This volume carries on the authors tradition of linking theoreticalinsights with readability and practical utility and offers an enhanced StrategicSelf-Regulation Model. It is enriched by many new features, such as the first-evermajor content analysis of published learning strategy definitions, leading to along-awaited, encompassing strategy definition that, to a significant degree, bringsorder out of chaos in the strategy field. Rebecca L. Oxford provides an intensivediscussion of self-regulation, agency, and related factors as the soul oflearning strategies. She ushers the strategy field into the twenty firstcentury with the first in-depth treatment of strategies and complexity theory.

A major section is devoted to applications of learning strategies in all languageskill areas and in grammar and vocabulary. The last chapter presents innovations forstrategy instruction, such as ways to deepen and differentiate strategy instructionto meet individual needs; a useful, scenario-based emotion regulation questionnaire;insights on new research methods; and results of two strategy instructionmeta-analyses. This revised edition includes in-depth questions, tasks, and projectsfor readers in every chapter. This is the ideal textbook for upper-levelundergraduate and graduate courses in TESOL, ELT, education, linguistics, andpsychology.

Rebecca L. Oxford is Professor Emerita and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the Universityof Maryland and Adjunct Professor and Program Evaluator at two branches of the Universityof Alabama. She currently co-edits two book series, Transforming Education for the Future andSpirituality, Religion, and Education.

I welcome this masterly work from a renowned scholar. It is fresh, comprehensive,scholarly and readable. Oxford explores the quagmire of definitions of strategies leadingto an integrated definition, and links strategies to self-regulation, autonomy and agency,giving us new ways of viewing this construct. Once again she moves the field forward.

Marion Williams

This book advances our understanding of the complexities of language learning strategies,their diverse theoretical underpinnings, and the individual variations and shifting shapesthat characterize them. Rebecca Oxford discusses how complexity theory relates tolanguage learning strategies, develops her S2R Model, and provides numerous practicalapplications for language teachers.

Anna Uhl Chamot, The George Washington University, USA

This long-awaited book presents an excellent linkage between theoretical insights withpractical applications, and brings strategy research into a new era. A particular strengthis the range of topics it covers: an enhanced Strategic Self-Regulation Model, complexitytheory, agency, autonomy, skill-based strategies, and strategy instruction. It also providesan encompassing strategy definition. I commend this comprehensive book highly.

Osamu Takeuchi, Kansai University, Japan

Rebecca Oxfords new book takes language learning strategies to a new level. It enhancesher 2011 S2R Model with a wealth of theoretical insights. Her freeing of strategies fromrigid categories while assigning to them multiple roles creates a new perspective thatrevolutionalises the strategy field. It is definitely a book for teachers, researchers andstudents looking for practical teaching and researching ideas, and up-to-date references.

Angeliki Psaltou-Joycey, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Im speechless at the breadth and depth of all that is included in Rebecca Oxfords newstrategy volume. This is the most in-depth, comprehensive, and original book ever writtenon L2 learning strategies. It looks at this important construct from affective, cognitive,and social perspectives; emphasizes the dynamism of strategies in context; and makes clearthe power of strategies in learning and teaching. I love everything about the book theway it is written, the references, and the wonderful questions in each chapter. It is a mustreadfor researchers and teachers all over the world.

Ana Maria F. Barcelos, Federal University of Viosa, Brazil

A Note about the Cover Photo from the Author:

In the cover photo, which I photographed in Nepal, the boats represent vehicles intended totake learners across the vast lake of language learning. Language learners without strategic selfregulationrow unsound boats aimlessly and confusingly and sometimes capsize, but strategicallyself-regulated learners row sound boats effectively toward learning goals. Excellent strategyinstruction and assessment can add to the power and direction of every boat on the lake.

(Color editing by Rebecca L. Oxford, Josephine E. Cox, and John Maloney at Routledge.)

Self-Regulation in Context

Second Edition

Rebecca L. Oxford

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I dedicate this book to my husband, Clifford Stocking, and to Rhea.

I also dedicate this book to the goal of peace and mutual understanding. That is the aim of my work in language learning and teaching.

Finally, I dedicate this volume to all language learners, especially those who are refugees and immigrants, and anyone else undergoing transition.

SECTION A
Focusing: Greater Clarity for Definitions and Theories

SECTION B
Flexibility and Function: Understanding L2 Learning Strategies According to Their Roles in Context

SECTION C
Live Applications: Strategies in the Skill Areas and the Language Subsystems

SECTION D
Innovations: Strategy Instruction, Assessment, and Research