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Student beliefs (or metacognitive knowledge) about SLA reconsidered
Author(s) -
Kalaja Paula
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/j.1473-4192.1995.tb00080.x
Subject(s) - second language acquisition , metacognition , learner autonomy , psychology , autonomy , applied linguistics , linguistics , language education , pedagogy , comprehension approach , cognition , political science , philosophy , neuroscience , law
In applied linguistics, interest in student beliefs (or metacognitive knowledge) about second language acquisition (SLA) is fairly recent, growing out of the emphasis on learner autonomy and on learner strategies in SLA. The purpose of this paper is to review those few studies that have been published so far, to give an outline of definitions of beliefs and research methodology, and finally to provide alternatives to these, based on recent developments in the social sciences. With a reconsideration of beliefs come reconsiderations of research data and methods.