Language Arts category: 28677 books
by Ana Lomba
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
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The Parents’ Choice award winning-language program for children is now available in Chinese! This hands-on program shows parents how to turn everyday activities into fun Chinese-learning opportunities—for children ages 1-7.
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Play and Learn Chinese makes the process...
Why Only Us
Language and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it.
**“A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon...
Defying Maliseet Language Death
Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Today, indigenous communities throughout North America are grappling with the dual issues of language loss and revitalization. While many communities are making efforts...
Creating Language
Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.
Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique...
by Marysia Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How does a person learn a second language? In this provocative book, Marysia Johnson proposes a new model of second language acquisition (SLA)-a model that shifts the focus from language competence (the ability to pass a language exam) to language performance (using language competently in real-life...
Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these...
Psycholinguistics
Language, Mind and World
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
How do we learn to produce and comprehend speech? How does language relate to thought?
This second edition of the successful text Psycholinguistics- Language, Mind and World considers the psychology of language as it relates to learning, mind and brain as well as various aspects of society and culture....
Beyond Grammar
Language, Power, and the Classroom: Resources for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Beyond Grammar: Language, Power, and the Classroom asks readers to think about the power of words, the power of language attitudes, and the power of language policies as they play out in communities, in educational institutions, and in their own lives as individuals, teachers, and participants in...
by Bernard Spolsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003
Language policy is an issue of critical importance in the world today. In this introduction, Bernard Spolsky explores many debates at the forefront of language policy: ideas of correctness and bad language; bilingualism and multilingualism; language death and efforts to preserve endangered languages;...
Learn Any Language Fast
Effective Strategies for Learning Any Language Fast
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The Boot Camp Approach for Practical Language Learning
Why should you bother learning a new language? Picking up different languages has many benefits. It can open doors for you at work by helping you get a promotion or landing a new job assignment. It can definitely make your life a whole...
Linguistic Ideologies of Native American Language Revitalization
Doing the Lost Language Ghost Dance
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The concept of this volume is that the paradigm of European national languages (official orthography; language standardization; full use of language in most everyday contexts) is imposed in cookie-cutter fashion on most language revitalization efforts of Native American languages. While this model...
by Peter W. Culicover, Elizabeth V. Hume
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Learning a language involves so much more than just rote memorization of rules. Basics of Language for Language Learners, 2nd edition, by Peter W. Culicover and Elizabeth V. Hume, systematically explores all the aspects of language central to second language learning: the sounds of language, the...
Language Competence Across Populations
Toward a Definition of Specific Language Impairment
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
This unique, edited book bridges studies in language disorders and linguistic theory with timely contributions from leading scholars in language development. It presents an attempt to define Specific Language Impairment, relating it to children of normal and disordered language capabilities.
The...
Second Language Learning and Language Teaching
Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the application of second language acquisition research to language teaching. Assuming no previous background in second language acquisition or language teaching methods, this text starts by introducing readers to the basic...