Language Arts category: 28677 books
Managing Evaluation and Innovation in Language Teaching
Building Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Managing Evaluation and Innovation in Language Teaching focuses on the connections to be made between evaluation and change in language education with a specific focus on English Language Teaching. The book demonstrates the central importance of evaluation in relation to language projects and programmes,...
Stimulating Student Interest in Language Learning
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
This book explores the issues and concerns many language teachers have in not just helping able students to learn a foreign or second language but more importantly how to get reluctant learners to become interested in language learning. Tin proposes ‘interest’ as an important construct that requires...
by Andrew D. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language examines what it takes to achieve long-term success in languages beyond the first language. Distinguishing language learning from language-use strategies, Andrew D. Cohen disentangles a morass of terminology to help the reader see what language strategies...
Figurative Language Comprehension
Social and Cultural Influences
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties together...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth coverage of the topics and sub-topics of the field. Entries are alphabetically arranged and extensively cross-referenced...
by Arild Lian
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This book gives an account of developmental language impairment from the perspective of language evolution. Components of language acquisition and specific language impairments can be mapped to stages in the evolutionary trajectory of language. Lian argues that the learning of procedural skills by...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Prominent researchers from the US, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Spain contribute experimental reports on language development of children who are acquiring Spanish. The chapters cover a wide range of dimensions in acquisition: comprehension and production; monolingualism and bilingualism; typical development,...
Talk to Me, Baby!
How You Can Support Young Children's Language Development, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
With Thirty Million Words and other early language initiatives making headlines, the message is clear: Talking to young children matters. But how you talk to children makes a big difference—and this friendly, down-to-earth guidebook shows you how to engage with kids in ways that directly support their...
Malagasy Language Audio Training Course
Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in Madagascar
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Malagasy Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Malagasy Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Madagascar. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested in...
Language and Creativity
The Art of Common Talk
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language and Creativity has become established as a pivotal text for courses in English Language, Linguistics and Literacy.
Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as literature and advertising, and individual gifted minds....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an authoritative reference dealing with all aspects of this increasingly important field of study. Offering a comprehensive range of articles on contemporary language teaching and its history, it has been produced specifically for language...
Communicative Behaviour of a Language Learner
Exploring Willingness to Communicate
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
This book investigates and analyzes the way in which factors such as communication apprehension, self-perceived communicative competence and group dynamics influence the communicative behavior of a foreign-language learner. It also focuses on interpersonal communication, group communication and public...
by Susan H.Foster- Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This volume introduces the field of child language development studies, and presents hypotheses in an accessible, largely non-technical language, aiming to demonstrate the relationship between these hypotheses and interpretations of data. It makes the assumption that having a theory of language development...
Hausa Language Audio Training Course
Language Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary for Travel in Niger
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Hausa Language Audio Training CourseWelcome to the Hausa Language Audio Training Course. This course is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Niger. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect for beginners and anyone interested in learning the...