This book explains why drama works as an enjoyable, social, and emotionally engaged way for children, young people and adults to learn languages, as well as showing how it provides motivating contexts and structures for acquiring and using real langu...Lasīt vairāk
This book explains why drama works as an enjoyable, social, and emotionally engaged way for children, young people and adults to learn languages, as well as showing how it provides motivating contexts and structures for acquiring and using real langu...Lasīt vairāk
This book explains why drama works as an enjoyable, social, and emotionally engaged way for children, young people and adults to learn languages, as well as showing how it provides motivating contexts and structures for acquiring and using real langu...Lasīt vairāk
Looking at second-language learners of a range of languages, this collection of original studies examines the phenomena of intake versus input in second language learning. It explores the cognitive process involved, and the fundamental mechanisms...Lasīt vairāk
Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition is an interdisciplinary and timely edited book of essays and empirical studies, most of which are based on the papers presented at the Form and Meaning Conference held in Chicago in 2002....Lasīt vairāk
This new book, Processing Instruction: Theory, Research, and Commentary, edited by Bill VanPatten--a pioneer in processing instruction (PI)--is a refreshing presentation of 10 related and not widely available articles that illustrate the role...Lasīt vairāk
Guide English language learners toward academic success with instructional practices and strategies based on current research. Resources to support writing, listening and speaking, reading comprehension, and vocabulary development are provided....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Sep-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107017610)
The initial state of learner spontaneous input processing in foreign language learning, as well as the extent to which this processing leads to intake, is of central importance to theoreticians and teachers alike. In this collection of original stud...Lasīt vairāk
A volume on second-language acquisition theory and pedagogy is, at the same time, a mark of progress and a bit of an anomaly. The progress is shown by the fact that the two disciplines have established themselves as areas of study not only distinct f...Lasīt vairāk
Second Language Acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis is the only book on the market to provide a diverse collection of perspectives, from experienced researchers, on the role of the Critical Period Hypothesis in second language...Lasīt vairāk
Even though second-language learners may master the grammar and vocabulary of the new languages, they almost never achieve a native phonology (accent). Scholars and professionals dealing with second-language learners would agree that this is one of t...Lasīt vairāk
This book looks at how people learn and use a 2nd language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteristics of the 1st and 2nd writing systems, to a certain extent independently of the languages involved.It presents the effects of wr...Lasīt vairāk
Nineteen international academics and researchers contribute 17 chapters providing an overview of the emerging field of Second Language Writing Systems (L2WS) research. Bringing together different disciplines with their own theoretical and methodologi...Lasīt vairāk
Emphasizing the idea that second language users are not failed native speakers but independent speakers of language, this volume presents 13 contributions addressing vocabulary, phonology, Universal Grammar, language teaching, brain functions, person...Lasīt vairāk
Portraits of the L2 User treats second language users in their own right rather than as failed native speakers. It describes a range of psychological and linguistic approaches to diverse topics about L2 users. It thus provides an overview of current...Lasīt vairāk
Herdina and Jessner (both English linguistics, U. of Innsbruck) present a new model and a new set of concepts for interpreting the psycholinguistic phenomena of multilingual individuals. Coverage includes an overview of the main topics raised in mul...Lasīt vairāk
The model presented in this volume draws together various strands of research - second language acquisition theory, bilingualism research, dynamic systems theory ? to develop a novel approach to this challenging subject. Its main focus lies on the ps...Lasīt vairāk
