Michael P. Breen is Professor of Language Education in the Centre for English Language Teaching, University of Stirling.

• Introduction: Conceptualisation, affect, and action in contextIndividual cognitive/ affective learner contributions and differential success in second langugae acquisition Diana Larsen-Freeman The role of learning strategies in second language acquisition Anna Uhli Chamot Metacognitive knowledge in SLA: the neglected variable Anita L. Wenden The metaphorical constructions of second language learners Rod Ellis 'The bleached bones of a story': learners' constructions of language teachers Rebecca L. Oxford Overt participation and covert acquisition in the language classroom Micahel P. Breen (S)econd (L)anguage (A)ctivity theory: understanding second language learners as people James P. Lantolf and Aneta Pavlenko Non-participation, imagined communities and the language classroom Bonny Norton Postscript: New directions for reasearch on learner contributions

Michael P. Breen is Professor of Language Education in the Centre for English Language Teaching, University of Stirling.

• Introduction: Conceptualisation, affect, and action in contextIndividual cognitive/ affective learner contributions and differential success in second langugae acquisition Diana Larsen-Freeman The role of learning strategies in second language acquisition Anna Uhli Chamot Metacognitive knowledge in SLA: the neglected variable Anita L. Wenden The metaphorical constructions of second language learners Rod Ellis 'The bleached bones of a story': learners' constructions of language teachers Rebecca L. Oxford Overt participation and covert acquisition in the language classroom Micahel P. Breen (S)econd (L)anguage (A)ctivity theory: understanding second language learners as people James P. Lantolf and Aneta Pavlenko Non-participation, imagined communities and the language classroom Bonny Norton Postscript: New directions for reasearch on learner contributions

Michael P. Breen is Professor of Language Education in the Centre for English Language Teaching, University of Stirling.

• Introduction: Conceptualisation, affect, and action in contextIndividual cognitive/ affective learner contributions and differential success in second langugae acquisition Diana Larsen-Freeman The role of learning strategies in second language acquisition Anna Uhli Chamot Metacognitive knowledge in SLA: the neglected variable Anita L. Wenden The metaphorical constructions of second language learners Rod Ellis 'The bleached bones of a story': learners' constructions of language teachers Rebecca L. Oxford Overt participation and covert acquisition in the language classroom Micahel P. Breen (S)econd (L)anguage (A)ctivity theory: understanding second language learners as people James P. Lantolf and Aneta Pavlenko Non-participation, imagined communities and the language classroom Bonny Norton Postscript: New directions for reasearch on learner contributions