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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Autonomous Language Learning against All Odds
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Gao, Xuesong – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2010
Conceptualizing learners' individuality as dynamic and contextually situated, this paper reports on an inquiry that examined the genesis of a disabled learner's success in learning foreign languages on the Chinese mainland. Using source texts such as the learner's published diaries, letters and her autobiography, the inquiry revealed that language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Individual Differences, Diaries, Autobiographies
A Tale of Blue Rain Cafe: A Study on the Online Narrative Construction about a Community of English Learners on the Chinese Mainland
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Gao, Xuesong – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
The study analyzes a strand of online discussion messages entitled "a Tale of Blue Rain Cafe" from an online community of English learners on the Chinese mainland. The strand of messages was part of the collective reflection made by members of an English learning club on their participation. Using sociocultural learning theory, the paper explores…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Understanding Changes in Chinese Students' Uses of Learning Strategies in China and Britain: A Socio-Cultural Re-Interpretation
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Gao, Xuesong – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2006
This paper reports a re-interpretation of the data from an inquiry exploring changes in 14 Chinese learners' uses of language learning strategies after they moved from mainland China to Britain. Using a socio-cultural theoretical framework, the analysis of the learners' experiential narratives lends tentative support to the postulation that the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)