Foreign Languages category: 16981 books
by AnaClaudiaSurianiDa Silva
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Before the Portuguese Royal Court moved to its South-American colony in 1808, books and periodicals had a very limited circulation there. It was only when Brazilian ports were opened to foreign trade that the book trade began to flourish, and printed matter became more easily available to readers,...
Teaching English to Young Learners
Critical Issues in Language Teaching with 3-12 Year Olds
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Aimed at student teachers, educators and practitioners, Teaching English Language to Young Learners outlines and explains the crucial issues, themes and scenarios relating to this area of teaching. Each chapter by a leading international scholar offers a thorough introduction to a central theme of...
by TURNBULL, Miles, DAILEY-O'CAIN
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
This book focuses on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms. Through the intersection of theory, practice, curriculum and policy, the volume calls for a reconceptualization of code-switching as something that both proficient and aspiring bilinguals do naturally, and as a practice that is inherently linked with bilingual code-switching.
Central Asia Collection
Language Audio Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary Training Course Collection for Travel in China, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia and Kazakhstan (Including Chinese Mandarin, Kyrgyz, Mongolian and Russian)
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Central Asia CollectionWelcome to the Central Asia Collection. This collection includes 5 of our training courses all within the same book. This collection is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to China, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Learn essential words,...
Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis
Berlin Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration. Berlin is a multicultural city in the heart of Europe, but what do we know about the number of languages spoken by its inhabitants...
by James P. Lantolf
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted on the learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective. The book is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. Specific topics covered include: learning and teaching languages in the zone of proximal development;...
Chinese Script
History, Characters, Calligraphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In this brisk and accessible history, sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning the earliest epigraphs and oracle bones to writing and texting on computers and mobile...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an authoritative reference dealing with all aspects of this increasingly important field of study. Offering a comprehensive range of articles on contemporary language teaching and its history, it has been produced specifically for language...
by Archana Mathur
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Become Proficient in Speaking and Writing GOOD ENGLISH. The book offers practical advice for writing proper and attractive prose. It will help improve one's communication ability and skill. The topics cover Common Errors, Confusing set of Figures of Speech, Foreign Words and Phrases and various aspects...
Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation
Perspectives from East Asian Languages
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics.
This volume brings together a series of eleven new cutting-edge essays by leading experts in East Asian...
Building Predicates
The View from Palauan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the syntax of Palauan that will appeal to anyone interested in Austronesian languages or formal syntactic and morphological theory. This volume proposes that words in Palauan are not drawn directly from a mental lexicon, but are instead composed at...
Colloquial Tibetan
The Complete Course for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Colloquial Tibetan provides a step-by-step course in Central Tibetan as it is spoken by native speakers. Combining a thorough treatment of the language as it is used in everyday situations with an accurate written representation of this spoken form, it equips learners with the essential skills needed...
by Dale Griffee, Greta Gorsuch
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Typically, books on evaluation in the second and foreign language field deal with large programs and often result from large?scale studies done by the authors. The challenge for ordinary second and foreign language classroom teachers is that they must extrapolate techniques or strategies for evaluation...
Language and Globalization
An Autoethnographic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
In this collection of real-life, personal narratives on the theme of language and globalization, scholars from a range of different sub-disciplines of linguistics, time periods, and geographical spaces throughout the world examine the interaction and intersectionality of languages and globalization and...