Language Arts category: 28677 books
Statehood, Scale and Hierarchy
History, Language and Identity in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Against the background of language and nation formation in Indonesia, this book demonstrates how language planning is inseparable from the broader actions of the state, and how postcolonial nationalism and globalization have had profound implications for language use and state actions to control it....
by Daniel Tubau
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Desde hace décadas los guionistas han examinado la estructura de sus guiones pensando en lo que puede sucederle al protagonista, olvidando que lo que realmente debe preocupar al guionista es lo que le pasa al espectador. La obsesión por destripar estructuras y actos, rastrear motivos y significados...
by Mario V. Farina
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Do you have the temperament to be a successful fiction writer? This is a non-fiction article that asks readers if they have the temperament to be successful fiction writers. A test is presented with a table at the end that predicts the reader's chances of being successful. The author is a fiction writer of over 200 fiction pieces of various Lengths.
Masterful Stories
Lessons from Golden Age Radio
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The early eras of radio storytelling have entered and continue to enter the public domain in large quantities, offering unprecedented access to the Golden Age of Radio. Author and Professor John Pavlik mines the best this age of radio has to offer in Masterful Stories, an examination of the masterpieces...
The Changing Landscape of Spanish Language Curricula
Designing Higher Education Programs for Diverse Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Spanish remains a large and constant fixture in the foreign language learning landscape in the United States. As Spanish language study has grown, so too has the diversity of students and contexts of use, placing the field in the midst of a curricular identity crisis. Spanish has become a second,...
Gender and Discourse
Language and Power in Politics, the Church and Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Real Language Series General Editors:Jennifer Coates, Jenny Cheshire, Euan Reid
This is a sociolinguistics series about the relationships between language, society and social change. Books in the series draw on natural language data from a wide range of social contexts. The series takes a critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This book examines language policies and practices in schools in regions of China populated by indigenous minority groups. It focuses on models of trilingual education, i.e. education in the home language, Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese, the national language), and English (the main foreign language)....
Encyclopedia of Language and Education
Research Methods in Language and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume seeks to enable language and education practitioners and researchers to get a sense of the range of issues being pursued in language and education research and the array of methods employed to do so. It focuses on language and education in relation to society, variation, culture, and interaction....
Bilingual Language Acquisition
Spanish and English in the First Six Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
How do children develop bilingual competence? Do bilingual children develop language in the same way as monolinguals? Set in the context of findings on language development, this book examines the acquisition of English and Spanish by two brothers in the first six years of their lives. Based on in-depth...
by Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This volume shows how the psychology and power of language can create realities. It examines the psychological implications of language as a way of being and not just as an instrument of communication. It discusses how a shift in language gives rise to an existential transformation, and shows how...
Languages in Africa
Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language—written, widespread, sometimes used in school—surrounds...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
How do infants learn a language? Why and how do languages evolve? How do we understand a sentence? This book explores these questions using recent computational models that shed new light on issues related to language and cognition. The chapters in this collection propose original analyses of specific...
Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification
Explorations in the Detection-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Recent work has pointed to the need for a detection-based approach to transfer capable of discovering elusive crosslinguistic effects through the use of human judges and computer classifiers that can learn to predict learners’ language backgrounds based on their patterns of language use. This book...
by Richard Sproat
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology specifically designed for language - to digital speech and other contemporary language systems. The book describes the social impact of technological developments over five millennia, and addresses topics such...