Thinking Welsh focuses on how common English words, phrases and constructions map onto Welsh, and highlights the key areas of difference and difficulty in these mapping operations....Loe edasi...
Punctuation Revisited is an advanced, comprehensive guide to the importance of punctuation in conveying meaning and augmenting the power of a message....Loe edasi...
With revised contents and an improved index to make individual entries easier to find, the Concise can be used to check the meaning and the origin of an expression or to avoid mixed metaphors, anachronisms and incongruities. It is a joy to browse lo...Loe edasi...
English: An Essential Grammar is written specifically for native speakers, beginning with the basics and going on to deal with phrase, clause and sentence structure, word formation and spelling. This fully revised and updated third edition includes...Loe edasi...
Finnish: A Comprehensive Grammar presents a fresh, accessible and thorough description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Finnish....Loe edasi...
Sari: Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2016, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9781614512097)
This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their interactions with syntax and semantics....Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the experience of foreign language faculty in American colleges and universities, the challenges they face, and ways that academia can better support language faculty, and marginalized faculty in other fields, in their important...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2012, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110289619)
Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2012, Kirjastus: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110289657)
This is the first comprehensive description of Savosavo, a non-Austronesian (Papuan) language spoken by approximately 2,500 speakers on Savo Island, Solomon Islands....Loe edasi...
Sari: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-May-2008, Kirjastus: Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110206982)
A collection that is dedicated to the notions of norms and standards in connection with the English language. It covers topics such as the norms we orient to in social interaction, the benchmark employed in teaching, or the development of Englis...Loe edasi...
This book is for newly qualified teachers and PGCE students of modern foreign languages. It covers the training standards for NQTS but goes beyond this with a focus on the subject expertise they bring into teaching....Loe edasi...
The book describes, in theory and through the presentation of empirical research, how we can develop learner autonomy and work towards reflective and communicative learners that are not afraid to experiment with language and language learning in CAL...Loe edasi...
Should you split infinitives? Can you end sentences with prepositions? Does the Queen speak the Queens English? This is practical and fun, to improve your writing for professional purposes or simply enjoy exploring the highways and byways of Englis...Loe edasi...
Mastering German Vocabulary explains how to use over 2,200 common German words correctly, using example sentences in German with English translations....Loe edasi...
Sociocultural Contexts of Language and Literacy, Second Edition engages prospective and in-service teachers in learning about linguistically and culturally diverse students, and in using this knowledge to enrich literacy learning in classrooms and...Loe edasi...
Provides information on both speech and writing. This book not only gives information about the language as a whole, but also about the differences between spoken and written English, and between different spoken and written varieties of the languag...Loe edasi...
Recent research highlights the importance of an individuals own skills and attitudes to learning when studying a second language. A number of contributors explore the theory and practical application of such experiential learning....Loe edasi...
Brings together a set of papers that share the current theoretical interest in re-conceptualizing second & foreign language learning from a sociocultural perspective, with practical concerns about second & foreign language pedagogy....Loe edasi...
This research-based overview of the types of 2nd-language programs found at the undergraduate level is the first to bring this info together in one vol. Premise is that the boundaries between these programs are no longer applicable in multilingual w...Loe edasi...
Written by experts, each chapter represents a personal account of a reading disorder through which details of the features of the disorder, methods used for testing, and theoretical accounts are illustrated....Loe edasi...
Designed to complement Learning to Teach Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School, this book focuses specifically on the skills and processes of teaching mfl at A and A/S level in schools and colleges....Loe edasi...
This text aims to synthesize the state of research with regard to the teaching and testing of reading in a second language. It examines the psychology of reading, models of the reading process and various theories, and discusses the development of r...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the political, social, and educational implications of acquiring literacy skills in more than one language. For educators, theoretical and applied linguists, socio- and psycho-linguists, sociologists, and anthropologists....Loe edasi...
This collection of papers presents a sample of contemporary research across different languages that address the ability to spell. Spelling is a human literacy ability that reflects language and nonlanguage cognitive processes....Loe edasi...
The aim of the book is to demonstrate what the research shows of how children learn to read, especially of the role of phonology awareness in learning to read & how interventions may best work with those who have incomplete phonological awareness....Loe edasi...
Learning to read is not natural for many individuals. This special issue presents some of the major advances in methodologically and theoretically sound treatment research by the use of comprehensive and multivariate treatment protocols and individu...Loe edasi...
Covers the language of commerce and diplomacy during the period from 1500 BCE to 1500 CE. Aims at the identification of a linguistic sub-system that effected and informed the major channel of international relations....Loe edasi...
This work on reading comprehension difficulties addresses various questions: how widespread are reading comprehension difficulties?; how can such a problem be defined and identified?; what are the main characteristics associated with a reading compr...Loe edasi...
This text explores a variety of human, social and political issues involved in the carrying out of studies on classroom second language research...Loe edasi...
Using a wide range of twentieth century literary prose, this book provides an `interactive introduction to the techniques of stylistic analysis. A genuinely `student-friendly text and an invaluable tool for beginning students....Loe edasi...
This collection covers the major models of comprehension in the field of text and discourse. It also focuses on deep levels of understanding tather than language codes, syntax or other levels of text analysis....Loe edasi...
This is an interdisciplinary volume, examining the important themes in the current theoretical debates on language and gender. Comprising chapters from leading linguists, it aims to bring together debate between the areas of linguistics/language stu...Loe edasi...
This text presents contemporary accounts on word-, sentence-, and text-processing. It should be of use to experimental psychologists, as well as investigators in cognitive science disciplines such as computer science, and linguistic and educational...Loe edasi...
The author of this book believes that cognition should not be rooted in innate rules and primitives, but rather grounded in human memory. More specifically, he suggests viewing linguistic comprehension as a time-constrained process - a race for buil...Loe edasi...
This volume presents an overview of idiom research outside the immediate domain of lexicology/lexicography. The chapters address the status of idioms in recent formal and experimental linguistic theorizing....Loe edasi...
This volume provides a framework for the research accomplished on the reading process over the past 15 years. It emphasizes how readers go about extracting information from the printed page and how they comprehend the text....Loe edasi...
Examines three main areas where the language and law interact: the central issue of the language of the law; the disadvantage which language can impose before the law, and forensic linguistics. Each area is dealt with in a separate section which is...Loe edasi...
Examines the ways in which time is reflected in natural language - considering tense, aspect, the inherent lexical features of the verb, and various types of temporal adverb....Loe edasi...
