Challenges of Second and Foreign Language Education in a Globalized World: Studies in Honor of Krystyna Droździał-Szelest

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This edited collection brings together papers by eminent scholars who attempt to demonstrate how challenges can most successfully be ameliorated with an eye to enhancing the effectiveness of the processes of language teaching and learning. In Part One, emphasis is placed on challenges that second language education has to face, both those more general, dealing with language policy issues, and those more specific, concerned with instructional options in the language classroom. Part Two focuses on challenges involved in researching the processes of teaching and learning in the second and foreign languages classroom, both with respect to research methodology and efforts to tap some variables impinging upon the effects of instruction. Finally, Part Three is devoted to challenges involved in second and foreign language teacher education, the quality of which to a large extent determines the outcomes of second language education in any educational context. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Mission in English Language Teaching: Why and Why Not? (Anna Niżegorodcew)....Pages 3-16 How to Deal with Applications in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (FLLT) (Maria Dakowska)....Pages 17-33 Evaluating Language Courses at Foreign Language University Centers (Danuta Gabryś-Barker)....Pages 35-51 Emotion as the Amplifier and the Primary Motive: Some Theories of Emotion with Relevance to Language Learning (Rebecca L. Oxford)....Pages 53-72 Speech and Its Silent Partner: Gesture in Communication and Language Learning (Hanna Komorowska)....Pages 73-87 Tinker, Tailor…: Creativity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (Liliana Piasecka)....Pages 89-106 Making the News: An ICC Simulation in the Erasmus + Context (Teresa Siek-Piskozub)....Pages 107-115 Toward an Integrated Model of Teaching Business English in Tertiary Education (Paweł Sobkowiak)....Pages 117-130 English Instruction in Polish and Norwegian Secondary Schools: Convergent Goals, Divergent Means (Paweł Scheffler, May Olaug Horverak, Anna Domińska)....Pages 131-149 Front Matter ....Pages 151-151 Individualized Categories of Verbal Reports in Classroom Think-Aloud Translation Tasks (Anna Michońska-Stadnik)....Pages 153-166 The Influence of Ambiguity Tolerance on Willingness to Communicate in L2 (Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel)....Pages 167-184 Tracing the Motivational Trajectories in Learning English as a Foreign Language. The Case of Two English Majors (Mirosław Pawlak, Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak)....Pages 185-207 Trilingual Learners’ Awareness of the Role of L1 in Learning Target Language Grammar (Aleksandra Wach)....Pages 209-226 The Effect of Strategy Instruction on English Majors’ Use of Affective Strategies and Anxiety Levels (Jakub Bielak)....Pages 227-249 Characteristics of Good Foreign Language Educators Across Cultural Boundaries (Marek Derenowski)....Pages 251-267 Front Matter ....Pages 269-269 The Contribution of Metaphor to University Students’ Explicit Knowledge About ELT Methodology (Joanna Zawodniak, Mariusz Kruk)....Pages 271-286 Is There a Place for “Sowing” in Second Language (L2) Education at the University Level? Neoliberal Tenets Under Scrutiny (Hadrian Lankiewicz)....Pages 287-305 The Dialogical Nature of Professional Identity: A Longitudinal Study of One EFL Teacher (Dorota Werbińska, Małgorzata Ekiert)....Pages 307-325 Students Teachers’ International Experience and Their Beliefs About Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence (Anna Czura)....Pages 327-344