This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It presents a large-scale, long-term research project focusing on Polish-English cognates and their use by b...Loe edasi...
This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It presents a large-scale, long-term research project focusing on Polish-English cognates and their use by b...Loe edasi...
This monograph investigates 15 L2 creative writers social constructive power in identity constructions. Through interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, the central study considers how L2 writer voices are mediated by the writers autobiog...Loe edasi...
This monograph investigates 15 L2 creative writers social constructive power in identity constructions. Through interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, the central study considers how L2 writer voices are mediated by the writers autobiog...Loe edasi...
With a particular focus on the morphosyntactic features of second language, this book discusses the idea that language acquisition is a discontinuous and quantized process and thus that some items might be learned twice, statistically and grammatic...Loe edasi...
This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts childrens needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon childrens actual home resources and provides...Loe edasi...
This textbook offers an introductory overview of eight hotly-debated topics in second language acquisition research. It offers a glimpse of how SLA researchers have tried to answer common questions about second language acquisition rather than being...Loe edasi...
This textbook offers an introductory overview of eight hotly-debated topics in second language acquisition research. It offers a glimpse of how SLA researchers have tried to answer common questions about second language acquisition rather than being...Loe edasi...
This book presents mixed-methods research into Chinese students willingness to communicate (WTC) in an EFL classroom context. The interrelationships between WTC and motivation, communication confidence, learner beliefs and classroom environment are...Loe edasi...
This book closes the gap between theory and classroom application by capitalizing on learners individuality in second or foreign language learning. The book examines the existing literature and theoretical underpinnings of each of the most prominent...Loe edasi...
In the complex, multilingual societies of the 21st century, codeswitching is an everyday occurrence, and yet the use of students first language in the English language classroom has been consistently discouraged by teachers and educational policy-ma...Loe edasi...
In this first book-length treatment of collaborative writing in second language (L2) classrooms, Neomy Storch provides a theoretical, pedagogical and empirical rationale for the use of collaborative writing activities in L2 classes, as well as some g...Loe edasi...
For many Japanese women, the English language has never been just another school subject. For them, English is the tool of identity transformation and the means of obtaining what they passionately desire - mobility, the West and its masculinity. Lang...Loe edasi...
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 ba...Loe edasi...
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 ba...Loe edasi...
Code Choice in the Language Classroom argues that the foreign language classroom is and should be regarded as a multilingual community of practice rather than as a perpetually deficient imitator of an exclusive second-language environment. From a soc...Loe edasi...
Code Choice in the Language Classroom argues that the foreign language classroom is and should be regarded as a multilingual community of practice rather than as a perpetually deficient imitator of an exclusive second-language environment. From a soc...Loe edasi...
This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates language learning experiences in an English medium university in a multilingual setting with a focus on their strategic language learning efforts. This book examin...Loe edasi...
This volume offers fresh perspectives on a controversial issue in applied linguistics and language teaching by focusing on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms. It includes new work by both new and established s...Loe edasi...
The Meaning Makers is about childrens language and literacy development at home and at school. Based on the Bristol Study, "e;Language at Home and at School,"e; which the author directed, it follows the development of a representative sample...Loe edasi...