Language Arts category: 28677 books
Mind, Brain, and Language
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2003
Much of the groundbreaking work in many fields is now occurring at the intersection of traditional academic disciplines. This development is well demonstrated in this important and unique volume, which offers a multidisciplinary view of current findings and cutting-edge issues involving the relationship...
Cultural Memory of Language
Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
"I can't even speak my own language," were the words overheard in a college staffroom that triggered the writing of this book. Calling something 'my own' implies a personal, proprietorial relationship with it. But how can it be your own if you cannot speak it?
The Cultural Memory...
Lawyers' Language
The Distinctiveness of Legal Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
An interesting examination of law as language use or discourse, this study looks at the transformation of ordinary language into a special discourse for the purposes of the legal system. It is widely accepted that legal discourse is obscure, and often the public resent the fact that access to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
The issue of high-level language proficiency in other than monolingual contexts can be approached from a variety of perspectives, including linguistic/structural; psycholinguistic/cognitive and sociolinguistic/societal. Bringing together a team of experts, this volume takes a novel empirical approach...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Language Awareness is a comprehensive and informative overview of the broad field of language awareness. It contains a collection of state-of-the-art reviews of both established themes and new directions, authored and edited by experts in the field. The handbook is divided...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: metodologías, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza del español L2, provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the main methodologies, contexts and resources in Spanish Language Teaching (SLT), a field that has experienced significant...
Second Language Lexical Processes
Applied Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
The book contains studies on second language lexical processes based on empirical findings by authors mostly from Central Europe. The reader may have access to how lexical items are stored in the memory and also to how second language lexicons work in speech processing. Questions of the two lexicons’...
by Sean A. Fulop
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
This book presents the author's research on automatic learning procedures for categorial grammars of natural languages. The research program spans a number of intertwined disciplines, including syntax, semantics, learnability theory, logic, and computer science. The theoretical framework employed...
by Morten H. Christiansen, Christopher Collins, Shimon Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic word...
Language as a Scientific Tool
Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the centuries...
by Prof. Glenn S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Code Choice in the Language Classroom argues that the foreign language classroom is and should be regarded as a multilingual community of practice rather than as a perpetually deficient imitator of an exclusive second-language environment. From a sociocultural and ecological perspective, Levine guides...
Early Language Learning
Complexity and Mixed Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This is the first collection of research studies to explore the potential for mixed methods to shed light on foreign or second language learning by young learners in instructed contexts. It brings together recent studies undertaken in Cameroon, China, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya,...
First Language versus Foreign Language
Fluency, Errors and Revision Processes in Foreign Language Academic Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
First Language versus Foreign Language deals with the «battle» that takes place in writers’ heads when writing in a foreign language. Most academics today need to write in another language than in their first language (L1) in order to publish in internationally recognized journals. However, as...
by Colin Browne
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: A, University of London (Institute of Education), course: MA TESOL, language: English, abstract: The English immersion programme in the German-speaking part of Switzerland sees various school subjects being taught...