By reconceptualizing successful communication in a foreign language as an enjoyable and uplifting experience, this volume moves beyond a focus on grammatical accuracy and fluency to foreground the ways in which foreign language learners can be encouraged to build on previous achievements and communicative successes in the target language and so develop confidence, commitment and cross-cultural relational ability.
Building on Mugford-s previous volume, Addressing Difficult Situations in Foreign-Language Learning (2019),this text draws ongrounded qualitative data collected through questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and conversations with Spanish-speaking learners of English, to illustrate how learners- experiences and insights can be used to inform a productive pedagogy centred around language users- communicative objectives and interactional successes. Chapters highlight bilingual speakers- conscious language use, practices and ch
