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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