Language Arts category: 28677 books

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by Yvonne Bogataj
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1 (sehr gut), University of Marburg, course: Psycholinguistics, 28 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Introduction How do children acquire language? As Susan H. Foster-Cohen put it in her book...
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Constraints on Language Acquisition

Studies of Atypical Children

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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

After decades of research most scholars generally agree that language acquisition is a complex and multifaceted process that involves the interaction of innate biologically-based mechanisms devoted to language, other non-linguistic cognitive and social mechanisms, linguistic input, and information...
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French (Cameroon) Language Audio Training Course

Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in Cameroon

by Language Recall
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014

French (Cameroon) Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the French (Cameroon) Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Cameroon. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

This book contains 17 studies by leading international scholars working on a wide range of topics in Arabic socio-linguistics, divided into four parts. The studies in Part 1 address questions of national language planning in a diglossic situation, with a particular focus on North Africa. Part 2 explores...
Cover of Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation
by Zoltán Dörnyei, Kata Csizér, Nóra Németh
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2006

This volume presents the results of the largest ever language attitude/motivation survey in second language studies. The research team gathered data from over 13,000 Hungarian language learners on three successive occasions: in 1993, 1999 and 2004. The examined period covers a particularly prominent...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016

The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language. Featuring 35 chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume takes a broad view of the field of metaphor and language, and...
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Modern Afaan Oromo Grammar

An Invitation to a Cushiatic Language

by Taha M. Roba
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017

This publication is the second edition of the Oromo Textbook. It is designed to teach the Oromo language to those who can speak the language but are unable to read it; for those children who were born and live outside their homeland; and for those who are interested in learning one of the major languages...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016

The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is an invaluable resource for language learners and linguists of Chinese worldwide, those interested readers of Chinese literature and cultures, and scholars in Chinese studies. Featuring the research on the changing landscape of the Chinese language...
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Bulgarian Language Audio Training Course

Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in Bulgaria

by Language Recall
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014

Bulgarian Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Bulgarian Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Bulgaria. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested in...
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The Philosophy of Language

Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues

by A. Borgmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

This book deals with the philosophy of language and with what is at issue in the philosophy of language. Due to its intensity and diversity, the philosophy of language has attained the position of first philosophy in this century. To show this is the task of Part Two. But the task can be accomplished...
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by Wanda Torres Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016

With the recent publication of works from Heidegger’s Collected Edition, it has become evident that language occupied a central place in his thought “from early on,” as he claimed in his later years. Heidegger’s Path to Language takes on the timely task of guiding us through the development...
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Language and the Ineffable

A Developmental Perspective and Its Applications

by Louis S. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011

One's conception of language is central in fields such as linguistics, but less obviously so in fields studying matters other than language. In Language and the Ineffable Louis S. Berger demonstrates the flaws of the received view of language and the difficulties they raise in multiple disciplines....
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Re-examining Language Testing

A Philosophical and Social Inquiry

by Glenn Fulcher
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015

Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Book Award 2016 Re-examining Language Testing explores ideas that form the foundations of language testing and assessment. The discussion is framed within the philosophical and social beliefs that have forged the practices endemic in language education and policy today. From...
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Language, Power and Pedagogy

Bilingual Children in the Crossfire

by Prof. Jim Cummins
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2000

Population mobility is at an all-time high in human history. One result of this unprecedented movement of peoples around the world is that in many school systems monolingual and monocultural students are the exception rather than the rule, particularly in urban areas. This shift in demographic realities...
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