Description

• Title:
  The self as a complex dynamic system
• Creator:
  Mercer, Sarah
• Description:
  This article explores the potential offered by complexity theories for understanding language learners’ sense of self and attempts to show how the self might usefully be conceived of as a complex dynamic system. Rather than presenting empirical findings, the article discusses existent research on the self and aims at outlining a conceptual perspective that may inform future studies into the self and possibly other individual learner differences. The article concludes by critically considering the merits of a complexity perspective but also reflecting on the challenges it poses for research.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2016 Sarah Mercer
• Date:
  2011.04.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011); 57-82;
  Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Tom 1 Nr 1 (2011); 57-82;
  2084-1965;
  2083-5205
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/5242/5334
• Subject:
  complexity theory;
  dynamic systems;
  learner differences;
  the self
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/5242
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text