Language Arts category: 28677 books
How Languages Work
An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
A new and exciting introduction to linguistics, this textbook presents language in all its amazing complexity, while guiding students gently through the basics. Students emerge with an appreciation of the diversity of the world's languages, as well as a deeper understanding of the structure of human...
New Zealand Sign Language
A Reference Grammar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
One of the country’s three official languages, New Zealand Sign Language evolved in the communities that grew from networks of Deaf children at three schools for the Deaf from the late nineteenth century. The Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language (1997) now an invaluable online resource at nzsl.vuw.ac.nz...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
This book, addressed to experienced and novice language educators, provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, reflecting changes in the global situation and the continuing evolution of the field and its relevance to language education around the world. Topics covered include nationalism...
The Language of Brexit
How Britain Talked Its Way Out of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Investigating the 2016 EU Referendum in the UK, The Language of Brexit explores the ways in which 'Brexit' campaigners utilised language more persuasively than their 'Remain' counterparts. Drawing parallels with effective political discourse used worldwide, this book highlights the linguistic features...
Language of the Land
Policy, Politics, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The idea for this volume arose out of a need for a treatment of the interplay between language and ethnonationalism within both formal and nonformal educational settings. In no way intended to be exhaustive in scope, the contents give the reader a critical overview of issues related to language, cultural...
by Lourdes Ortega
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood,...
Introducing Second Language Acquisition
Perspectives and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Introducing Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives and Practices represents a clear and concise introduction to the main concepts, issues, and debates in second language acquisition studies aimed specifically at undergraduates encountering the topic for the first time.
Follows six fictitious...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition brings together fifty leading international figures in the field to produce a state-of-the-art overview of Second Language Acquisition.
The Handbook covers a wide range of topics related to Second Language Acquisition: language in context,...
by Rod Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
This book examines current research centered on the second language classroom and the implications of this research for both the teaching and learning of foreign languages. It offers illuminating insights into the important relationship between research and teaching, and the inherent complexities...
by Dr. Rod Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all learners and in all instructional contexts. This book draws on the author’s experience of working with teachers, together with his knowledge of relevant...
How Language Began
Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication....
Assessing Multilingual Children
Disentangling Bilingualism from Language Impairment
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Second language learners often produce language forms resembling those of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). At present, professionals working in language assessment and education have only limited diagnostic instruments to distinguish language impaired migrant children from those who...
Language, Identity, and Choice
Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language, Identity and Choice: Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society provides scholarly insight into how foreign language acquisition influences an individual’s understanding of identity within the African American family. Rooted in sociolinguistic, communication, and bilingual theoretical...
The Social Life of the Japanese Language
Cultural Discourse and Situated Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express diverse affective stances, such as politeness? Why have issues of gendered speech been so central in public discourse, and how are they reflected...