Language Arts category: 28677 books
Bengali (Bangla) Language Audio Training Course
Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Bengali Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Bengali Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Bangladesh. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested in learning...
First Lessons in the Maori Language
with a short vocabulary
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
The object of the following pages is not to give anything like a complete treatise on the Maori language, nor even a complete outline of Maori Grammar; but rather to furnish, in as small a compass as possible, some practical hints on the ordinary modes of using the different parts of speech; and to...
Intercultural Learning in Modern Language Education
Expanding Meaning-Making Potentials
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Winner of the 2015-16 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association
Many educators aim to engage students in deeply meaningful learning in the language classroom, often facing challenges to connect the students with the culture of the language they are learning....
by Prof. Vivian Cook, Prof. David Singleton
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
This textbook offers an introductory overview of eight hotly-debated topics in second language acquisition research. It offers a glimpse of how SLA researchers have tried to answer common questions about second language acquisition rather than being a comprehensive introduction to SLA research. Each...
Language as Discourse
Perspectives for Language Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the discoursal properties of language and demonstrate what insights this approach can offer to the student and teacher of language. The authors examine the relationship between complete texts, both spoken and written, and the social and cultural...
by Andreas Krumwiede
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut / Abteilung Sprachwissenschaften), course: HS Language Policy and Language Use in Multicultural Societies, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world’s languages.
Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates and language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions...
Total Speech
An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 1996
Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how language functions in seamless tandem with the rest of human activity. In Total Speech, Toolan provides a clear and comprehensive account of integrationalism,...
Women, Men and Language
A Sociolinguistic Account of Gender Differences in Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Women, Men and Language has long been established as a seminal text in the field of language and gender, providing an account of the many ways in which language and gender intersect. In this pioneering book, bestselling author Jennifer Coates explores linguistic gender differences, introducing the...
Language Planning and Policy in Native America
History, Theory, Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Comprehensive in scope and rich in detail, this book explores language planning, language education, and language policy for diverse Native American peoples across time, space, and place. Based on long-term collaborative and ethnographic work with Native American communities and schools, the book...
Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China
A Linguistic Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning. This linguistic ethnographic study of language attitudes and identities in contemporary China in the era...
Captioned Media in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing as Tools for Language Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This book brings together current thinking on informal language learning and the findings of over 30 years of research on captions (same language subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) to present a new model of language learning from captioned viewing and a future roadmap for research and practice...
Measures of Language Proficiency in Censuses and Surveys
A Comparative Analysis and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book offers a systematic analysis of a wide range of questions used in censuses, national surveys and international surveys to measure language proficiency. It addresses the urgent need in language related survey research for a comprehensive examination of the large existing body of survey data...
Who does This Language Belong To?
Personal Narratives of Language Claim and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
In this Hebrew language learning setting, students’ backgrounds and histories are diverse: some were born and raised in Canada, the United States, or South Africa and studied Hebrew at Jewish day schools; others were born in the former USSR, immigrated to Israel as children, and moved to Canada...