Social Language Learning Spaces: Affordances in a Community of Learners
Social Language Learning Spaces: Affordances in a Community of Learners
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社交语言学习空间：学习者社区的可供性
DOI：
10.1515/cjal-2013-0009
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
N. Fujishima
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作者：
G. Murray;N. Fujishima
摘要本文报道了一个民族志调查的语言和社会文化的启示提供给英语和日语的外语学习者，通过他们在日本大学的社会学习空间的参与。社会学习空间指的是一种设施，在这种设施中，学生们聚集在一起，在非正式的环境中相互学习。为了探索这种环境下的社会学习动态，我们进行了纵向民族志调查。数据主要来自对学习者和管理人员的采访，并得到参与者观察的支持。的数据，告知生态和社区的实践观点的主题分析，指出了一个学习者社区的出现，并揭示了如何密切的启示与新兴的社区。在本文中，我们报告了与产生语言学习机会的可供性相关的调查结果、这些可供性与支持学习者社区发展的条件的关系，以及学习者自主性在这两个相互关联的现象中的作用。
Abstract This paper reports on an ethnographic inquiry into the linguistic and sociocultural affordances available to English and Japanese foreign language learners through their engagement in a social learning space at a Japanese university. By social learning space we refer to a facility in which students come together in order to learn with and from each other in a non-formal setting. To explore the social learning dynamic in this environment, we carried out a longitudinal ethnographic inquiry. Data came primarily from interviews with learners and administrators, supported by participant-observations. A thematic analysis of the data, informed by ecological and community of practice perspectives, pointed to the emergence of a community of learners and revealed how closely the affordances were connected with the emergent community. In this paper we report on the findings related to the affordances which gave rise to language learning opportunities, the relationship of these affordances to the conditions which supported the development of a community of learners, and the role of learner autonomy in regard to these two interrelated phenomena.