- Cover
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: Theorizing Informal Language Learning
- Part II: Learning in Digital Contexts
- Part III: Learning Through Media and Live Contact
- 12 Video and Informal Language Learning
- 13 Songs and Music
- 14 Mobility, Media, and Multiplicity: Immigrants' Informal Language Learning via Media
- 15 Service Sector Work and Informal Language Learning
- 16 Linguistic Landscapes and Additional Language Development
- 17 Language Tourism and Second Language Acquisition in Informal Learning Contexts
- Introduction
- Language gains deriving from language tourism
- Interacting with the host community
- The role of accommodation, leisure activities, and other travel components in facilitating SLA
- Alternative educational settings conducive to SLA
- SLA in work contexts
- Challenges and future research
- REFERENCES
- Part IV: International Case Studies of Informal Language Learners
- Part V: Informal Learning and Formal Contexts
- 23 Translanguaging Across Contexts
- 24 A Critical Review of Social Networks for Language Learning Beyond the Classroom
- 25 Digital Writing in Informal Settings Among Multilingual Language Learners
- 26 Extensive Reading for Statistical Learning
- 27 Leveraging Technology to Integrate Informal Language Learning within Classroom Settings
- Introduction
- The case for integrating informal learning into a language class
- Teacher support for informal language learning
- Strategies and tools for informal language learning: Focus on listening and vocabulary development
- Designing and evaluating informal language learning experiences
- Conclusion: The road ahead
- REFERENCES
- 28 Connecting Informal and Formal Language Learning
- Introduction
- Key concepts related to informal and autonomous language learning
- Benefits of informal autonomous language learning
- Self‐directed language learning and technology
- Underlying theoretical constructs associated with autonomous language learning
- Other factors that can foster or impede L2 learner autonomy
- Instructional approaches that encourage autonomous learning
- Autonomous learning within the classroom
- Autonomous language‐learning communities
- Non‐language oriented spaces and communities
- Benefits of participation in these online communities
- Potential dangers of online autonomous learning
- Resources available
- Suggestions for using these resources in the L2 classroom
- Conclusions: Making the formal informal again
- REFERENCES
- Part VI: The Present and Future of Informal Language Learning
- 29 Digital Translation: Its Potential and Limitations for Informal Language Learning
- 30 Future Directions in Informal Language Learning
- Introduction
- Understanding experiential language learning: A growing need
- Recreational language learning on the rise
- New opportunities for learning through games and social media
- Growing participation in nonformal, yet structured learning
- Classroom integration
- New devices and opportunities on the horizon
- The role of informal language learning in the future
- REFERENCES
- 31 Last Words: Naming, Framing, and Challenging the Field
- Index
- End User License Agreement
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