Language Experience Approach category: 922 books
Researching Cultures of Learning
International Perspectives on Language Learning and Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
This edited book examines cultures of learning from the perspectives of education, applied linguistics and language learning. The concept can be used to explore socio-cultural features of language learning and use contexts in educational institutions, and cultural practices of pedagogic activities and classroom interaction.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that promise has been fulfilled, exploring...
Designing Research on Bilingual Development
Behavioral and Neurolinguistic Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This volume offers an in-depth description and discussion of research design for a large-scale investigation of bilingual development. It introduces and justifies a range of theoretical and methodological innovations, discusses some of the problems that come with these and proposes practical solutions....
by Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak, Mirosław Pawlak
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The book addresses one of the key controversies in teaching foreign language grammar, which is the utility of production-oriented instruction, as exemplified in the PPP sequence, and comprehension-based teaching, as implemented in interpretation tasks and processing instruction. It provides a thorough...
Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014
New Empirical and Theoretical Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics addresses the interface between the two disciplines and offers a platform to scholars who combine both methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use. Corpus linguistics and Pragmatics have traditionally...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This edited volume offers a series of state-of-the-art conceptual papers and empirical research studies which consider how contextual factors at multiple levels dynamically interact with individuals to influence how they go about the complex business of learning and using a second language.
Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students’ English Writing
A Contrastive Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book offers up-to-date insights into the long-standing controversy of whether or not Chinese learners of English adequately express their attitudes in written English. It compares four writing datasets from three groups of student writers (e.g., English-speaking students’ English texts, Chinese-speaking...
Multilingual Education Yearbook 2018
Internationalization, Stakeholders & Multilingual Education Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This volume examines how internationalization, stakeholders, and educational contexts have a reciprocal influence on multilinguals and their communities both as individual and collective variables. Therefore, the exploration of these variables and how they intersect and interact with worldwide phenomena...
Strategies for Second Language Listening
Current Scenarios and Improved Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book seeks to help teachers teach listening in a more principled way by presenting what is known from research, exploring teachers' beliefs and practices, examining textbook materials, and offering practical activities for improving second language listening.
Cultural and Linguistic Minorities in the Russian Federation and the European Union
Comparative Studies on Equality and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This is the first comprehensive volume to compare the sociolinguistic situations of minorities in Russia and in Western Europe. As such, it provides insight into language policies, the ethnolinguistic vitality and the struggle for reversal of language shift, language revitalization and empowerment...
The Discourse of Teaching Practice Feedback
A Corpus-Based Investigation of Spoken and Written Modes
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
In this book, Farr examines the spoken and written language of post-observation teaching-practice feedback on teacher education programs. To do so, she draws upon theories from discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and pragmatics to frame the analysis of feedback meetings and written tutor reports,...
School-University Partnerships in English Language Teacher Education
Tensions, Complexities, and the Politics of Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book addresses the complex issues that arise in school-university collaborative action research projects. Employing sociocultural perspectives on examining professional practices of in-service teachers, it examines the complexities of negotiating beliefs, identities and interpersonal relations...
by Timothy Sauder
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
It is estimated that about 10 percent of the English language are idioms and phrases. This increases as you watch American TV, from the movies to the news. It is impossible to understand American English without basic knowledge of these phrases. Even Americans do not understand some of the things...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
The book addresses issues related to the education of ethnic minority individuals in the multilingual Asian region. It features recent research and practices of scholars aiming to rethink educational policy and practice surrounding the education of ethnic minority students with a variety of language...