Language Arts category: 28677 books
Language Learning
A Lifelong Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language Learning provides an introduction to language development that differs from existing books in that it traces language and cognitive development (together with the associated debates) from babyhood, through the school years of middle childhood and adolescence, into adulthood and the world...
The Ecosystem of the Foreign Language Learner
Selected Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
This volume examines selected aspects of the foreign language learning process from an ecological perspective, adopting a holistic view on complex interrelations among and within organisms (L2 language learners) and their milieus (family, school and society). First of all, the personal ecosystem of...
by Ken Decker, John Grummitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Understanding Language Choices is an introductory textbook for anyone studying the motivations behind language use choices. It provides an introduction into the numerous factors, both internal and external, influencing such choices in a speech community: language attitudes, language learning, identity,...
The Resilience of Language
What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is 'yes'. The children are congenitally deaf and cannot learn...
The Ascent of Babel
An Exploration of Language, Mind, and Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
Language is one of the faculties that sets humans apart from animals, the crucial thing which makes our complex social interactions possible. The Ascent of Babel explores the ways in which the mind produces and understands language: the ways in which the sounds of language evoke meaning, and the ways...
Language Disorders From a Developmental Perspective
Essays in Honor of Robin S. Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The last 25 years have witnessed an explosion of research at the intersection of typical language development and child language disorders. A pioneer in bringing these fields of study together is Robin S. Chapman, Emerita, University of Wisconsin. This contributed volume honors her with chapters written...
by Michel Paradis, Gary Libben
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The Bilingual Aphasia Test is a comprehensive language test designed to assess the differential loss or sparing of various language functions in previously bilingual individuals. The individual is tested, separately, in each language he or she previously used, and then in the two languages simultaneously....
by Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
When theorizing about language, we tend to assume that speakers are cooperative, honest, helpful, and so on. This, of course, isn't remotely true of a lot of real-world language use. Bad Language is the first textbook to explore non-idealized language use, the linguistic behaviour of those who exploit...
by Judit Kormos
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The Second Language Learning Processes of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties is the only recent book available to offer a detailed and in-depth discussion of the second language learning processes of students with specific learning difficulties (SpLDs). It summarizes research advances in...
Language Aptitude
Advancing Theory, Testing, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Language Aptitude: Advancing Theory, Testing, Research and Practice brings together cutting-edge global perspectives on foreign language aptitude. Drawing from educational psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, the editors have assembled interdisciplinary authors writing for an applied linguistics...
Dialects at School
Educating Linguistically Diverse Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Like its predecessor, Dialects in Schools and Communities, this book illuminates major language-related issues that educational practitioners confront, such as responding to dialect related features in students’ speech and writing, teaching Standard English, teaching students about dialects, and...
Interaction Between Attention and Language Systems in Humans
A Cognitive Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
This original volume examines the interface between attentional and linguistic processes in humans from the perspectives of psycholinguistics and cognitive science. It systematically explores how autonomy and automaticity are reflected during language processing in a variety of situations. A true,...
Intersection of Service and Learning
Research and Practice in the Second Language Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This book on servicelearning provides a current view of servicelearning research in the second language classroom and practical applications for the acquisition of both cultural knowledge as well as the different language modalities. This book helps in understanding how using servicelearning in the language...
Language and a Sense of Place
Studies in Language and Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Place has always been central to studies of language, variation and change. Since the eighteenth century, dialectologists have been mapping language features according to boundaries - both physical and institutional. In the twentieth century, variationist sociolinguists developed techniques to correlate...