Individual Learner Differences in SLA

Janusz Arabski and Adam Wojtaszek: IntroductionPart 1 BACKGROUND ASSUMPTIONSCHAPTER I-Dieter Wolff: Individual Learner Differences and Instructed Language Learning: An Insoluble Conflict?CHAPTER 2-Miros?aw Pawlak: Research into Language Learning Strategies: Taking Stock and Looking AheadPart 2 SUPPORTING LEARNER AUTONOMYCHAPTER 3-Hasan Bedir: Teachers' Perceptions of Individual Differences in Turkish Primary School EFL ClassesCHAPTER 4-Maria Stec and Anna Studenska: Learning Autonomy Support By Foreign Language TeachersCHAPTER 5- Anna Studenska: Personality and Parenting Styles as Predictors of Self-Regulation in Foreign Lanugage LearningPart 3 LEARNERS' ABILITIES IN STRATEGY APPLICATIONCHAPTER 6-Anna Mystkowska Wiertelak: The Development of Implicit Knowledge Through Structured Input Activities: The Importance of Individual Perceptions Concerning Grammar InstructionCHAPTER 7-Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic: Awareness of Cognate Vocabulary and Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Polish Multilingual and Bilingual Advanced Learners Of EnglishPart 4 EXPERIENCED LEARNERSCHAPTER 8-Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel: A Study of Gender-Related Levels of Processing Anxieties Over Three Years of Secondary Grammar School InstructionCHAPTER 9-Joanna Bielska: Challenge or Threat? A Study of Perceived Self-efficacy of Polish EFL TeachersCHAPTER 10-Andrzej ?yda, Krystyna Warcha? and Alina Jackiewic: Managing Criticism and Praise by Trainee Interpreters: Looking For Gender DifferencesCHAPTER 11-Zbigniew P. Mo?ejko: Student Needs Assessment in Teaching English at the Tertiary Level - An Individual Learner Differences PerspectivePart 5 INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER OF PHONOLOGICAL ATTAINMENTCHAPTER 12-Andrzej Porzuczek: Regularity and Individual Variation in Native English and Polish Learner's Wh-Question SuprasegmentalsCHAPTER 13-Arkadiusz Rojczyk: Time-Limited Verbal Fluency Task with Polish-English Unbalanced BilingualsCHAPTER 14-Eleni Tsiartsioni: The Acquisition of English Vowel Length Differences before Word Final Stops by Greek Learners of EnglishPart 6 FOCUS ON LANGUAGE SKILLS: READING AND WRITINGCHAPTER 15-S?la Ay and Özgur ?en Bartan: Individual Differences in Foreign Language Reading Comprehension: Gender and Topic InterestCHAPTER 16-Halina Chodkiewicz: Individual Differences in L2 Readers' Strategic Behaviour While Performing Reading to Learn Tasks: A Case StudyCHAPTER 17-Liliana Piasecka: Current Views on Foreign Language Reading MotivationCHAPTER 18-Danuta Gabry?-Barker: From Oral Input to Written Output: On Individual Differences in External Storing of InformationCHAPTER 19-Jan Zalewski: Accounting for One Student's Failure and Another's Success on a Written Academic AssignmentCHAPTER 20-Iwona Kowal: Online Revisions in FL Writing. General Rules and Individual Differences