Adult Esol Learners In Britain: A Cross Cultural Study - Tapa blanda

This book provides an overview of the main strands, perspectives and debates in current thinking and practice in the field of ESOL. Combining historical, sociolinguistic and cross-cultural analysis of the language needs of adult immigrants, this book critically addresses issues related to the learning and teaching of ESOL in Great Britain. It is probably the first comprehensive empirical study of the attitudes and motivation of adult ESOL learners. It re-examines Gardner and Lambert's theory and tries to establish a broad-based interpretation of their core concept of instrumental and integrative motivation. This book provides a framework to understand bi/multilingual learners' desire to acquire proficiency in English without compromising their commitment to their heritage languages.

A.L. Khanna is a Reader in English at Rajdhani College, University of Delhi. He has done extensive research in the socio-psychological aspects of second language learning and language testing, and has published extensively in the field of ESOL. Mahendra K. Verma has been a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of York since 1971. His research interests and publications are in the fields of the sociology of language, second language acquisition, linguistic diversity, and ESOL. R.K. Agnihotri is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Delhi. He has lectured at various universities in India, Yemen, South Africa, Canada and the UK and has published widely in the fields of Applied Linguistics, Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. S.K Sinha has taught English in India, Saudi Arabia and the UK. He is a lecturer at the West Thames College, London. His research interests cover the fields of Applied Linguistics, ESOL and Literary Stylistics.