This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It discusses extensive qualitative and quantitative data on Polish-English cognates and their use by learner...Loe edasi...
This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It discusses extensive qualitative and quantitative data on Polish-English cognates and their use by learner...Loe edasi...
For decades theorists have opined that the lines between creative writing and composition need to be lifted, yet little has been written about the pedagogical methods that allow a cohesive approach between the disciplines. This book brings together c...Loe edasi...
For decades theorists have opined that the lines between creative writing and composition need to be lifted, yet little has been written about the pedagogical methods that allow a cohesive approach between the disciplines. This book brings together c...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the notion of identity, this book elicits L2 creative writers own perspectives of their life histories through the form of interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, and investigates the writers emerging writing processes. It in...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the notion of identity, this book elicits L2 creative writers own perspectives of their life histories through the form of interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, and investigates the writers emerging writing processes. It in...Loe edasi...
The acquisition of some morpho-syntactic features of a second language by adult learners may be a discontinuous process, suggests Rastelli, because the learning principles and the brain structures that have supported the acquisition of those features...Loe edasi...
This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts childrens needs and interests above the individual languages involved. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education - rather than mother tongue education - is the mo...Loe edasi...
This treatise on language education describes a vision of flexible multilingual education that respects the child’s heritage and home language and draws on the child’s home and community resources, while teaching languages that children will actually...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 bei...Loe edasi...
This text reviews eight key topics in second language acquisition research: how different languages connect in the mind; whether there is a best age for learning a second language; the importance of grammar; how words are acquired; how people learn t...Loe edasi...
Peng investigates what factors influence the willingness of individual Chinese students of English-as-a-foreign-language to engage in oral communication in the classroom. She applies and adapts research from other languages, noting that Chinese stude...Loe edasi...
This book closes the gap between theory and classroom application by capitalizing on learners individuality in second or foreign language learning. Issues of content are targeted through a description of the variables of anxiety, beliefs, cognitive...Loe edasi...
This volume examines aspects of learners individuality in second or foreign language classrooms, focusing on the characteristics of anxiety, beliefs, cognitive abilities, motivation, learning strategies, learning styles, and willingness to communica...Loe edasi...
In the multilingual societies of the 21st century, codeswitching is an everyday occurrence, and yet the use of students first language in the EFL classroom has been consistently discouraged. This volume begins by examining current theoretical work o...Loe edasi...
This collection consists of eight essays containing case studies and commentaries on how people switch between languages on a regular basis in Asian contexts where English is the medium of instruction, particularly by teachers and students in univers...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...
In this resource for in-service teachers, second language (L2) is used as an umbrella term to refer to both second language and foreign language instruction. Author Storch (applied linguistics, ESL, The University of Melbourne) encourages teachers to...Loe edasi...
Language Learning, Gender and Desire explores Japanese women s desire for English as a means of identity transformation and as access to the West and its masculinity. Drawing on ethnographic data and critical discourse analysis, the book illuminates...Loe edasi...
This slim volume in the Critical Language and Literacy Studies series examines English-language learning among Japanese women studying and living in Australia. Takahashis (English, Assumption U.) research is not concerned with exigencies of language...Loe edasi...
