Language Arts category: 28677 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an authoritative handbook dealing with all aspects of this increasingly important field of study. It has been produced specifically for language teaching professionals, but can also be used as a reference work for academic studies at...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Heritage language policies define the context in which heritage languages are maintained or abandoned by communities, and this volume describes and analyzes international policy strategies, as well as the implications for the actual heritage language speakers.
This volume brings together heritage...
Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition
Learning to Use Language in Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, exploring the variety of ways in which social context influences the acquisition of a second language. It reviews basic principles...
by Elizabeth B. Bernhardt
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive discussions of upper-register second-language texts (both expository and narrative) that adult second-language readers encounter daily across the globe,...
Introducing English Language
A Resource Book for Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.
Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings...
The Social Psychology of English as a Global Language
Attitudes, Awareness and Identity in the Japanese Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
This ground-breaking work is a detailed account of an innovative and in-depth study of the attitudes of in excess of 500 Japanese learners towards a number of standard and non-standard as well as native and non-native varieties of English speech. The research conducted refines the investigation of...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Media provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research in media linguistics. This handbook analyzes both language theory and practice, demonstrating the vital role of this research in understanding language use in society. With...
Language Matters
Reflections on Educational Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
"This book addresses a timely and very important topic: language in education. Language, apparently, is a very tricky business. On the one hand, everyone uses language, and virtually everyone has strong views about language. In the educational domain this seems to be especially true. Language is not...
English as a Second Language in the Mainstream
Teaching, Learning and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Since it was first established in the 1970's the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language education. Drawing extensively on empirical research and theoretical work in linguistics, sociology, psychology...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an applied linguistics perspective.
Forty-one chapters are organised into five sections covering:
theoretical perspectives informing language and identity...
by Roger Fowler, Bob Hodge, Gunther Kress
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Originally published in 1979. This book studies language variation as a part of social practice - how language expresses and helps regulate social relationships of all kinds. Different groups, classes, institutions and situations have their special modes of language and these varieties are not just...
The Biolinguistic Enterprise
New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics. It offers fresh perspectives on language evolution and variation, new developments in theoretical linguistics, and insights on the relations between variation in language and variation in biology. The authors...
by Judit Kormos
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This extremely up-to-date book, Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition, is the first volume in the exciting new series, Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition. This new volume provides a thorough overview of the field and proposes a new integrative model of how L2 speech is produced.
The...
Changing Minds Changing Tools
From Learning Theory to Language Acquisition to Language Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of language change.
In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition—often approached as an isolated domain, subject to its own laws and mechanisms—is simply learning, subject to the same...