Language Arts category: 28677 books
Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora
Applying the Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Today, one fundamental set of issues confronts both the linguistic theory of 'Universal Grammar' and the psychological study of human cognition. These issues concern the question of to what degree and how the human mind is "programmed," presumably biologically, to acquire the complex knowiedge...
Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Using debate to develop advanced competency in a second language is a method that is finding increased interest among instructors and students alike, whether in synchronous online teaching or the individual classroom. Through debate, students learn how to make hypotheses, support their conclusions with...
by Timothy Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
This book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy – the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others. It investigates a broad range of case studies of languages and dialects...
Social Spaces for Language Learning
Stories from the L-café
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Social spaces for language learning, places where learners can come together in order to learn with and from each other, have an important role to play in foreign language acquisition and L2 identity development. In this book, sixteen students, teachers and administrators tell how they experience the...
Task-Based Language Learning in a Real-World Digital Environment
The European Digital Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
How can you use the latest digital technology to create an environment in which people can learn European languages while performing a meaningful real-world task and experiencing the cultural aspect of learning to cook European dishes? This book explains how to do this from A to Z, covering how a...
Successful Family Language Policy
Parents, Children and Educators in Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book presents the forefront of research in the emerging field of family language policy. This is the first volume to explore the link between family language policy, practice and management in the light of state and community language policy in more than 20 ethno-linguistic communities worldwide....
The Japanese Writing System
Challenges, Strategies and Self-regulation for Learning Kanji
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This is the first book devoted to exploring issues of learning written Japanese, focusing on the challenges the writing system poses for the second language learner. It weaves together previous research on Japanese second language acquisition and kanji learning with original studies on self-regulation...
Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context
Variation, Interaction and Ideology in Language Documentation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies, this book retraces the investigation of one unique linguistic space, the Creole varieties referred to as Takitaki in multilingual French Guiana. It illustrates how interactional sociolinguistic, anthropological...
Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS)
An Input-Based Approach to Second Language Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This module introduces Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS), an input-based language teaching method. TPRS provides a framework for teaching classes completely in the target language—even those at the beginner level. Through the steps of establishing meaning, creating a story...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
With rapid technological and cultural advancements, the 21st century has witnessed the wide scale development of transnationalist economies, which has led to the concurrent evolution of language and literacy studies, expanding cross-cultural approaches to literacy and communication. Current language...
Talk on the Wild Side
Why Language Can't Be Tamed
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language is the most human invention. Spontaneous, unruly, passionate, and erratic it resists every attempt to discipline or regularize it--a history celebrated here in all its irreverent glory.
Language is a wild thing. It is vague and anarchic. Style, meaning, and usage are continually on...
Language Function
An Introduction to Pragmatic Assessment and Intervention for Higher Order Thinking and Better Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Literacy teaching tends to take a structural approach to language, focusing on auditory products or skills such as sounds, morphemes, words, sentences, and vocabulary. However, new research suggests that the majority of English speakers actually think and learn in visual concepts, and that there is...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
This book sheds new light on language and literature teaching, and offers examples of teaching language in virtual environments. Providing an overview of virtual environments for teaching, it also includes chapters devoted to methodology design for second language teaching in these environments. Further...
by Jim Cole, Tony Stankus
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
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