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Cover of The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Multi-Competence
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

How are two or more languages learned and contained in the same mind or the same community? This handbook presents an up-to-date view of the concept of multi-competence, exploring the research questions it has generated and the methods that have been used to investigate it. The book brings together...
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The Written Language Bias in Linguistics

Its Nature, Origins and Transformations

by Per Linell
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

Linguists routinely emphasise the primacy of speech over writing. Yet, most linguists have analysed spoken language, as well as language in general, applying theories and methods that are best suited for written language. Accordingly, there is an extensive 'written language bias' in traditional and...
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The Story of English

How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language

by Joseph Piercy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012

The Story of English" illustrates the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken language in the world, and of how that language evolved during the last two millennia. Chronologically...
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Talking Wolves

Thomas Hobbes on the Language of Politics and the Politics of Language

by A. Biletzki
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

Talking Wolves advances an analysis of Hobbes which takes language seriously (as seriously as Hobbes took it). It presents a reading of Hobbes's view of society at large, and political society in particular, through a comprehensive discussion based on, and intimately linked to, his philosophy of language....
Cover of Practice Makes Perfect German Pronouns and Prepositions, Second Edition
by Ed Swick
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011

Based on the successful approach of the Practice Makes Perfect series, German Pronouns and Prepositions offers a clear and engaging presentation of all aspects of pronoun and preposition usage, combined with extensive practice, for beginning and intermediate language learners. This new edition features...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002

* Examines how language works, accounting for its nature, its use, its study and its history * Two comprehensive indexes of Topics and Technical Terms, and Names * Carefully illustrated to explain key points in the text `This rich repository of information on all aspects of language is a must...
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Definiteness and Indefiniteness

A Study in Reference and Grammaticality Prediction

by John A. Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015

First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English. It provides an integrated pragmatic-semantic theory of definite and indefinite reference, on the basis of which, many co-occurance restrictions between articles and non-modifiers are explained. At...
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by Stella Hurd, Linda Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2005

Success with Languages is designed to help all students develop the skills they need to become an effective language learner and to make the most of language study. Written by experienced language teachers at the Open University, this book offers undergraduates and postgraduates crucial and...
Cover of Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014

This book showcases how language learner agency can be understood and researched from varying perspectives by providing, for the first time, a collection of diverse approaches in one volume. The volume is organised into three main sections:the first sections offers an introduction to varying theoretical...
Cover of The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching is the definitive reference volume for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL, and Language Teacher Education, and for ELT professionals engaged in in-service teacher development and/or undertaking academic...
Cover of The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015

The most authoritative resource for students and researchers, The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language has been thoroughly updated and extended. Enhancements include new chapters on the acquisition of words, processing deficits in children with specific language impairments, and language in children...
Cover of Handbook of Research on Integrating Technology Into Contemporary Language Learning and Teaching
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018

Technology has become an integral part of our everyday lives. As today’s teachers prepare to instruct a new generation of students, the question is no longer whether technology should be integrated into the classroom, but “how?” The Handbook of Research on Integrating Technology Into Contemporary...
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Managing Reference Today

New Models and Best Practices

by Kay Ann Cassell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

Reference collections and services have changed considerably in the last three decades. We have moved from all services coming from the reference desk to a more fluid environment where users can be served in person, by phone, email, virtual reference/chat, instant messaging, texting, skyping, etc. Collections...
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Signed Language Interpreting

Preparation, Practice and Performance

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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

Signed language interpreting continues to evolve as a field of research. Stages of professionalization, opportunities for education and the availability of research vary tremendously among different parts of the world. Overall there is continuing hunger for empirically founded, theoretically sound...
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