Language Arts category: 28677 books
Language Regard
Methods, Variation and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Bringing together a team of renowned international scholars, this volume provides a wide-ranging collection of historical and state-of-the-art perspectives on language regard, particularly in the context of language variation and language change, and importantly, highlights the range of new methodologies...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
A large body of knowledge has accumulated in recent years on the cognitive processes underlying language, much of which comes from studies of Indo-European languages, in particular English. This groundbreaking volume explores the languages of South and Southeast Asia, which differ significantly from...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
The ability to speak two or more languages is a common human experience, whether for children born into bilingual families, young people enrolled in foreign language classes, or mature and older adults learning and using more than one language to meet life's needs and desires. This Handbook offers...
Children's Language
Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child language...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
This book contributes to the growth of interest in task-based language learning and teaching that has been seen in recent years. It brings together research that focuses on various aspects and effects of pedagogic task design and presents work that uses tasks to examine oral interaction, written production,...
Third Language Learners
Pragmatic Production and Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
The book focuses on one aspect of foreign language acquisition that has not received much attention, that of the effect of bilingualism in the oral production of the English language learners. Two research areas have tackled this issue separately. On the one hand, third language acquisition researchers...
by Runhan Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This book investigates several important issues revolving around the psycholinguistic modelling of language proficiency in terms of L2 linguistic knowledge, which is a topic of considerable interest and importance in SLA theories and language testing practice. Four tests including the Elicited Imitation...
The Power of Tests
A Critical Perspective on the Uses of Language Tests
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language in Social Life is a major series which highlights the importance of language to an understanding of issues of social and professional concern. It will be of practical relevance to all those wanting to understand how the ways we communicate both influence and are influenced by the structures...
by Jenefer Philp, Rebecca Adams, Noriko Iwashita
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning synthesizes the existing body of research on the role of peer interaction in second language learning in one comprehensive volume. In spite of the many hours that language learners spend interacting with peers in the classroom, there is a tendency to evaluate...
Language Teaching and the Older Adult
The Significance of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The aging of the population and the increasing number of older adults pursuing foreign language courses call for a greater understanding of the ways in which these individuals learn foreign languages. This book offers a pioneering contribution to the literature on foreign language education for older...
Diglossia and Language Contact
Language Variation and Change in North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This volume provides a detailed analysis of language contact in North Africa and explores the historical presence of the languages used in the region, including the different varieties of Arabic and Berber as well as European languages. Using a wide range of data sets, it provides a comprehensive...
Optimizing Language Learners Nonverbal Behavior
From Tenet to Technique
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This book highlights the pivotal role that nonverbal behavior plays in target language communication, affect and cognition. It integrates research tenets and video demonstrations of nonverbal behavior with structured activities that will guide teachers and learners of any language to capitalize on...
«Nanook of the North» From 1922 to Today
The Famous Arctic Documentary and Its Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North is one of the best-known documentaries of the silent era and has remained well-known throughout the world ever since its release in 1922. This study takes as its point of departure the changes Nanook underwent from its premiere at the New York Capitol on June...
Englishes in Multilingual Contexts
Language Variation and Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The chapters in this volume allow readers to develop a broad understanding of the issues around language variation and to recognise pedagogical implications of this work in multilingual contexts. The authors explore how variations in Englishes around the world relate to issues in English language...