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Psycholinguistic Competencies and Interculturality in ELT

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Individual and Contextual Factors in the English Language Classroom

Part of the book series: English Language Education ((ELED,volume 24))

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English language teaching has long gone beyond the classroom walls. The term itself includes a whole educational paradigm related to the social-cognitive, pragmatic and ethical aspects of the English-speaking world. Both English learners and teachers in the course of communication face not only language-related challenges but also those borne in historically, socially, and culturally diverse psychology and outlooks: ways of rationalizing perceptions, knowledge structures, attitudes, and the choices of expressing these feelings and beliefs. For both learners and teachers, language learning and cognition are inseparable from the emotional component, which is a factor that regulates adaptation to changes caused by external and internal learning events. Viewing these challenges within the psycholinguistic discipline, the study proposes a set of interrelated approaches and actions, including: (a) a systematic approach to the design of English learner and teacher competencies; (b) the implementation of the psycholinguistic approach to English language learning/teaching (ELL/ELT) that foregrounds learner personality; (c) support for graduate and post-graduate language educator programs with ethnolinguistic cross-cultural study components; and (d) the design of compatible formats for lecturer-student co-research activities and mechanisms of application of these products. The present chapter examines the tasks concerning the implementation of these actions, with recommendations leading to a methodological framework for language personality development in ELT. The proposed methodology has emerged due to the author’s study series in the linguistic categorization of emotions, language acquisition and bilingual identity, and culture research frameworks in language education.

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Hovhannisyan, G.R. (2022). Psycholinguistic Competencies and Interculturality in ELT. In: Al-Mahrooqi, R., Denman, C.J. (eds) Individual and Contextual Factors in the English Language Classroom. English Language Education, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91881-1_2

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