Learner Contributions to Language Learning: New Directions in Research. Applied Linguistics and Language Study.

Introduction: Conceptualisation, affect, and action in context * Individual cognitive/ affective learner contributions and differential success in second langugae acquisition Diana Larsen-Freeman * The role of learning strategies in second language acquisition Anna Uhli Chamot * Metacognitive knowledge in SLA: the neglected variable Anita L. Wenden * The metaphorical constructions of second language learners Rod Ellis *'The bleached bones of a story': learners' constructions of language teachers Rebecca L. Oxford * Overt participation and covert acquisition in the language classroom Micahel P. Breen *(S)econd (L)anguage (A)ctivity theory: understanding second language learners as people James P. Lantolf and Aneta Pavlenko * Non-participation, imagined communities and the language classroom Bonny Norton Postscript: New directions for reasearch on learner contributions