Language Experience Approach category: 922 books
Psychologized Language in Education
Denaturalizing a Regime of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book explores how psychologized language has come to dominate education and schooling. Taking a critical lens to some major constructs in education—e.g. the mind, the self, identity, emotion, emotional intelligence, motivation, culture, language and meaning—and their grounding in psychologized...
Pronunciation Learning Strategies and Language Anxiety
In Search of an Interplay
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
This book presents theoretical considerations and the results of empirical research on pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) deployed by pre-service trainee teachers majoring in English as a foreign language who experienced different levels of language anxiety (LA). The theoretical part focuses...
The Development of Meaning (RLE Edu I)
A Study of Children's Use of Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This book investigates children's use of language and considers its implications for children's learning at home and at school. The author compares the language used by children from different social environments at the ages of three, five and seven and considers the different approaches that children...
Critical Perspectives on Language Education
Australia and the Asia Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
The studies in this volume investigate how multilingual education involves a critical engagement with questions of identity and culture, and a movement towards new ways of being and belonging. It addresses previously under-explored issues, in particular the integration of theories like ‘thirdness’,...
Debates in ESOL Teaching and Learning
Cultures, Communities and Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
This unique book provides a lively introduction to the theory and research surrounding the adult learning of English for Speakers of Other Languages. Offering a digest and discussion of current debates, the book examines a wide geographical and social spread of issues, such as:
* how to understand...
by Tamsin Meaney, Tony Trinick, Uenuku Fairhall
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language can be simultaneously both a support and a hindrance to students’ learning of mathematics. When students have sufficient fluency in the mathematics register so that they can discuss their ideas, they become chiefs who are able to think mathematically. However, learning the mathematics register...
Intercultural Communication with China
Beyond (Reverse) Essentialism and Culturalism?
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A major objective of this book is to identify the key determinants of the “East” and the “West” in the field of intercultural communication. It examines but also counter-attacks essentialist and culturalist analyses of intercultural communication between China and the rest of the world. Offering...
Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners
Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
The purpose of Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners: Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices is to bring together educational researchers and practitioners who have implemented, documented, or examined policies, pedagogies, and practices in and out of classrooms and...
by Cynthia Lee
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
This book contributes to the literature of interlanguage pragmatics by building an interface between researching and teaching speech acts in the Chinese context. It is written for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers and readers who are interested in interlanguage pragmatics research,...
Foreign Language Learning Anxiety in China
Theories and Applications in English Language Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Already the focus of much interest for 50 years, the study of foreign language learning anxiety (FLLA) still remains a popular research topic among scholars in Western countries. FLLA is believed to be an important cause of students’ “dumb English”. Considering the paucity of monographs on FLLA...
Multilingual Education Yearbook 2019
Media of Instruction & Multilingual Settings
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
This book offers essential insights into the challenges and complexities surrounding the medium of instruction (MOI), its impact on all languages and stakeholders in multilingual contexts, educational processes, developments and outcomes.
MOI has been a prominent topic in recent...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This volume provides a unique interface between the material and linguistic aspects of communication, education and language use, and cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, drawing on fields as varied as applied linguistics, ethnology, sociology, history and philosophy.
Taking...
by May H. Hsieh
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
From invisible to visible: Stories of Taiwanese Hakka heritage teachers journeys is a study exploring teachers views and experiences with Hakka heritage language education and instruction in Taiwan. These teachers are involved in Taiwans current heritage language program and also experienced the Mandarin...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
This book presents a collection of original research articles that showcase the state of the art of research in corpus and computational linguistic approaches to Chinese language teaching, learning and assessment. It offers a comprehensive set of corpus resources and natural language processing tools...