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"Now in its second edition, Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context charts the field systematically and coherently for the benefit of language learning practitioners, students, and researchers. This volume carries on the author's tradition of linking theoretical insights with readability and practical utility and offers an enhanced Strategic Self-Regulation Model. It is enriched by many new features, such as the first-ever major content analysis of published learning strategy definitions, leading to a long-awaited, encompassing strategy definition that, to a significant degree, brings order out of chaos in the strategy field. Rebecca L. Oxford provides an intensive discussion of self-regulation, agency, and related factors as the ""soul of learning strategies."" She ushers the strategy field into the twenty-first century with the first in-depth treatment of strategies and complexity theory. A major section is devoted to applications of learning strategies in all language skill areas and in grammar and vocabulary. The last chapter presents innovations for strategy instruction, such as ways to deepen and differentiate strategy instruction to meet individual needs; a useful, scenario-based emotion regulation questionnaire; insights on new research methods; and results of two strategy instruction meta-analyses. This revised edition includes in-depth questions, tasks, and projects for readers in every chapter. This is the ideal textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in TESOL, ELT, education, linguistics, and psychology."

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I welcome this masterly work from a renowned scholar. It is fresh, comprehensive, scholarly and readable. Oxford explores the quagmire of definitions of strategies leading to 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 long-awaited book presents an excellent linkage between theoretical insights with practical applications, and brings strategy research into a new era. A particular strength is the range of topics it covers: an enhanced Strategic Self-Regulation Model, complexity theory, agency, autonomy, skill-based strategies, and strategy instruction. It also provides an encompassing strategy definition. I commend this comprehensive book highly. Osamu Takeuchi, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan This book is a true treasure for anyone interested in language learning strategies. Rebecca Oxford confronts head-on many of the existing controversies and offers a first comprehensive, brilliant and thought-provoking account of how strategies aid language learning. The landmark volume is a major step forward in the field and is bound to shape research in the years to come. Miroslaw Pawlak, State University of Applied Sciences, Poland This exciting new edition offers a fresh perspective to the field of language learning strategies. Rebecca Oxford synthesizes information from the relevant literature within psychology and second language acquisition and discusses a series of innovative ideas on researching, assessing and teaching language learning strategies. No collection of readings on the topic would be complete without this book. I will introduce it as a core reading for my module in Topics in the Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching. I love this book, and I am sure my students will love it, too. Christina Gkonou, University of Essex, UK The second edition of Rebecca Oxford's Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies is the most exciting book in years in the field of strategic language learning. It offers the most comprehensive and systematic coverage of issues related to the topic, and contains a feast of new ideas and perspectives on strategic language learning. With visionary height, theoretical breadth and depth, and methodological rigour, this book ushers in a new era for research on language learning strategies. Peter Gu, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand This inspiring, innovative volume will captivate both strategy experts and newcomers. Oxford's profound theoretical explanations of strategic self-regulation are supported by real-life scenarios, comprehensive reviews of research, and beautifully painted mental images and metaphors. Oxford explains complex ideas in a clear, down-to-earth manner. Readers, prepare yourselves for lively excursions of the mind and plenty of 'aha' moments. Carmen M. Amerstorfer, Alpen-Adria Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria

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Rebecca L. Oxford is Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland and a part-time adjunct professor of second language teaching and psychology at the University of Alabama in both Birmingham and Huntsville, USA.

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