Language Arts category: 28677 books
Arabic as One Language
Integrating Dialect in the Arabic Language Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
For decades, students learning the Arabic language have begun with Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and then transitioned to learning spoken Arabic. While the MSA-first approach neither reflects the sociolinguistic reality of the language nor gives students the communicative skills required to fully function...
Ireland as Gaeilge
A User-Friendly Guide to the Irish Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Are you confused by all the Irish language signs you see around you? Do you wonder if and when the Irish actually speak Irish? After spending thirteen years learning Irish in school, why do so few Irish people actually speak it?
Ireland as Gaeilge tells the story of the Irish language in a...
Opinion Polls and the Media
Reflecting and Shaping Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Opinion Polls and the Media provides the most comprehensive analysis to date on the relationship between the media, opinion polls, and public opinion. Looking at the extent to which the media, through their use of opinion polls, both reflect and shape public opinion, it brings together a team of leading...
Entextualizing Domestic Violence
Language Ideology and Violence Against Women in the Anglo-American Hearsay Principle
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language ideology is a concept developed in linguistic anthropology to explain the ways in which ideas about the definition and functions of language can become linked with social discourses and identities. In Entextualizing Domestic Violence, Jennifer Andrus demonstrates how language ideologies that...
Language and the Law
Linguistic Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Language policy is a topic of growing importance around the world, as issues such as the recognition of linguistic diversity, the establishment of official languages, the status of languages in educational systems, the status of heritage and minority languages, and speakers' legal rights have come...
First and Second Language Acquisition
Parallels and Differences
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Infants and very young children develop almost miraculously the ability of speech, without apparent effort, without even being taught - as opposed to the teenager or the adult struggling without, it seems, ever being able to reach the same level of proficiency as five year olds in their first language....
Language Processing in Discourse
A Key to Felicitous Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book argues that language systems determine language use to a greater extent than is generally assumed. The author demonstrates how the typological characteristics of a language determine even the most general aspects of our stylistic preferences.
Through extensive analysis of examples in German...
Journalism Under Fire
Protecting the Future of Investigative Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
A healthy democracy requires vigorous, uncompromising investigative journalism. But today the free press faces a daunting set of challenges: in the face of harsh criticism from powerful politicians and the threat of lawsuits from wealthy individuals, media institutions are confronted by an uncertain...
The Neurobiology of Learning
Perspectives From Second Language Acquisition
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This book constitutes a timely contribution to the existing literature by presenting a relatively comprehensive, neurobiological account of certain aspects of second language acquisition. It represents the collaborative efforts of members of the Neurobiology of Language Research Group in the Applied...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
This volume focuses on computer- and digitally-assisted language learning in all of its forms: technology-enhanced language learning, network-based language learning, mobile-assisted language learning and so on, in close relation to the topic of sustainability. How can these technologies and techniques...
by Brian Tomlinson, Hitomi Masuhara
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
The Complete Guide to the Theory and Practice of Materials Development for Language Learning provides undergraduate and graduate-level students in applied linguistics and TESOL, researchers, materials developers, and teachers with everything they need to know about the latest theory and practice of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The specific—and varied—ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern, particularly as educators are increasingly called on to implement these processes for improvement, accountability, or curricular development...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2008
Language learning strategies have been a topic of research for roughly three decades. Broadly speaking, that research has focused on classroom tuition, predominantly at secondary level. Increasingly, however, language learning occurs in independent settings, whether at distance, on Institution-Wide...
Contexts of Competence
Social and Cultural Considerations in Communicative Language Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The introduction of communicative competence as the goal of second and for eign language teaching has led to recognition of the role of context in language learning and use. As communicative competence is defined by the social and cultural contexts in which it is used, no single communicative competence...