Language Arts category: 28677 books
Piecing It Together
A Systematic Approach Toward More Effective Language Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Speech-language pathologists are always rethinking their standards about what constitutes language and about their part in students academic and social success. But what has been lacking is a clearer, more orderly way to work with language- learning disorders. Building on decades of experience in...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recent studies in psycho linguistics have ranged through a variety of languages. In this trend, which has no precedent, studies in language processing have followed studies in language acquisition and theoretical linguistics in considering language universals in a broader scope than only in English....
by Kathryn A. Davis, Prem Phyak
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Engaged Language Policy and Practices re-envisions language policy and planning as an engaged approach, drawing on and portraying theoretical and educational equity perspectives. It calls for the right to language policy-making in which all concerned—communities, parents, students, educators, and...
Why Do Linguistics?
Reflective Linguistics and the Study of Language
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
What do we need to know about language and why do we need to know it? This book shows how viewing the world through a linguistics lens can help us to understand how we communicate with each other and why we do it in the ways we do. Above all this book is about noticing. It is about encouraging readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This book addresses basic issues in language education and explores how reading, with a focus on meaning, contributes to the development of all aspects of language including vocabulary, spelling, grammar, and syntax. It departs from traditional methods and practices in language learning to investigate...
Neuropsycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Cognition
Essays in honour of Jean-Luc Nespoulous
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book brings together experts from the fields of linguistics, psychology and neuroscience to explore how a multidisciplinary approach can impact on research into the neurocognition of language. International contributors present cutting-edge research from cognitive and developmental psychology,...
Language, Culture, and Education
Challenges of Diversity in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Exploring language, culture and education among immigrants in the United States, this volume discusses the range of experiences in raising children with more than one language in major ethno-linguistic groups in New York. Research and practice from the fields of speech-language pathology, bilingual...
by Louanna Furbee-Losee
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Definitions of language cluster around two non-contradictory views: one that language is a shared code, a social entity, and the other that language is the knowledge that enables a native speaker to produce and understand speech. In examining the language and culture of the Tojolabal (Mayan) Indians...
Language for Teaching Purposes
Bilingual Classroom Discourse and the Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This book’s innovative approach proposes Language for Teaching Purposes as a distinct field of enquiry and practice within Language for Specific Purposes. It uses robust theoretical and empirical evidence to demonstrate the specificity of language used by teachers teaching language, and the complex...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Studies of language acqUiSItion have largely ignored processing prin ciples and mechanisms. Not surprisingly, questions concerning the analysis of an informative linguistic input - the potential evidence for grammatical parameter setting - have also been ignored. Especially in linguistic approaches...
Learning through Language
Towards an Educationally Informed Theory of Language Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Learning language and using language to learn is at the core of any educational activity. Bringing together a globally representative team of experts, this volume presents an innovative and empirically robust collection of studies that examine the role of language in education, with a particular emphasis...
Language, Society and Power
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language, Society and Power is an accessible introduction to studying language in a variety of social contexts.
This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the way we view society and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class and gender. It considers whether...
The Interactional Instinct
The Evolution and Acquisition of Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
The Interactional Instinct explores the evolution of language from the theoretical view that language could have emerged without a biologically instantiated Universal Grammar. In the first part of the book, the authors speculate that a hominid group with a lexicon of about 600 words could combine...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners provides both theoretical and empirical information about assessing the English language proficiency of young learners. Using large-scale standardized English language proficiency assessments developed for international or U.S. contexts as...