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Reinders, H., Lai, C., & Sundqvist, P. (Eds.). (2022). The Routledge encyclopedia of language learning beyond the classroom. Routledge (forthcoming).
The book
An estimated 80% of adult learning takes place outside of formal education (Cross 1981). For language learning, it is likely that out-of-class experiences play an equally important role (cf. de Bot 2007). It is therefore surprising that the role of informal language learning has received little attention over the years, with the vast majority of research instead focusing on classroom methods, materials and interaction.
Researchers from a range of backgrounds, however, have started to realise the important contribution of informal language learning, both in its own right, and in its relationship with classroom learning. Studies in the areas of learner autonomy, learning strategies, study abroad, work-based learning, language support, learners’ voices, computer-mediated communication, mobile-assisted language learning, education for migrants, digital gaming, and many others, all add to our understanding of the complex and intersecting ways in which learners construct their own language learning experiences, drawing from a wide range of resources, including materials, teachers, self-study, technology, other learners, and native speakers.
Because of the predominance of informal language learning, it is important that the existing body of research is solidified and that the various disciplines that have looked at this area are brought together to present the current state of knowledge in one accessible Handbook, to provide a sound and comprehensive basis for researchers and graduate students in all languages to build their own research on.
Our authors
HAYO REINDERS, CHUN LAI AND PIA SUNDQVIST
Part I Mapping LLTBC 17
1 The History of Language Learning and Teaching Beyond the Classroom 18
JON REINHARDT
2 Mapping language learning environments 36
PHIL BENSON
3 Interfacing Formal Education and Language Learning beyond the Classroom 51
STEVEN THORNE AND JOHN HELLERMANN
4 Participant-driven L2 learning in the wild: An overview and its pedagogical implications 72
SØREN W. ESKILDSEN
5 Learning beyond the classroom and autonomy 90
GEOFFREY SOCKETT
6 CALL in the Wild = a voyage of independent self-directed learning? 107
LIAM MURRAY, MARTA GIRALT, MARTIN A. MULLEN AND SILVIA BENINI
7 English Language Learning Beyond the Classroom: Do Learner Factors Matter? 128
CYNTHIA LEE
8 The golden age of foreign language learning. Age and language learning beyond the classroom 147
ELKE PETERS
Part II Supporting LLTBC 164
9 Digital Game-Based Language Learning in Extramural Settings 165
KYLE SCHOLZ
10 Fostering learners’ self-regulation and collaboration skills and strategies for mobile language learning beyond the classroom 182
OLGA VIBERG AND AGNES KUKULSKA-HULME
11 Enhancing Language and Culture Learning Through Social Network Technologies 199
LINA LEE
12 Enhancing language and culture learning in the case of study abroad 215
MARTIN HOWARD
13 Enhancing Language and Culture Learning in Migration Contexts 232
SILVIA KUNITZ
14 Learning to act in the social world: building interactional competence through everyday language use experiences 249
ARJA PIIRAINEN-MARSH AND NIINA LILJA
15 Enhancing language learning in private tutoring 273
KEVIN WAI HO YUNG
16 Enhancing the Quality of Out-of-Class Learning in Flipped Learning 292
JUN CHEN HSIEH, MICHAEL W. MAREK AND Wen-CHI VIVIAN WU
17 Enhancing language learning beyond the classroom through advising 310
JO MYNARD AND SATOKO KATO
18 Online Learner Communities for Fostering Autonomous Learning beyond the Classroom 327
WENLI WU AND QING MA
19 Self-access Centres for Facilitating Autonomous Language Learning 344
DAVID GARDNER
20 Assessments of and for LBC 363
TONY BURNER
Part III Researching LLTBC 376
21 Ethics, privacy and security in researching LBC 377
LISS KERSTIN SYLVÉN
22 Evaluation of instruments for researching learners’ LBC 392
JU SEONG LEE
23 Methods and Approaches to Investigating Language Learning in the Digital Wilds 411
SHANNON SAURO
24 The use of mixed methods to study language learning beyond the classroom 426
LISBETH M. BREVIK AND NILS BUCHHOLTZ
25 Language Learning Diary Studies in Learning beyond the Classroom Contexts 442
KATHLEEN M. BAILEY
26 Doing LLBC research with young learners 458
SIGNE HANNIBAL JENSEN
27 Ethnography in LBC research 476
ANASTASIA ROTHONI
28 When Classrooms aren’t an Option: Researching Mobile Language Learning through Disruption 493
MATT SMITH, HOWARD SCOTT AND JOHN TRAXLER
29 Bringing beyond into the L2 classroom: On video ethnography and the ‘wild’ in-class use of smartphones 510
PETER WIKSTRÖM AND MARIE NILSBERTH
30 Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining in Learning Beyond the Classroom 533
MICHAEL THOMAS
