Aspects of Language Development in an Intensive English Program

ISBN-13: 9781032173054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str.

Alan Juffs

Opis

This book is the first of its kind to track the development of specific language abilities in an Intensive English Program (IEP) longitudinally and highlights the implications of this particular study’s findings for future IEP implementation and practice and ESL and SLA research.

Spis treści

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1 Intensive English Programs and Second Language Teaching Research

Chapter 2 The Intensive English Program at the University of Pittsburgh: Methods and Curriculum

Chapter 3 Placement Assessment and Developmental Measures in an Intensive English Program

Chapter 4 Lexical Development in an Intensive English Program

Chapter 5 Grammatical Development in an Intensive English Program

Chapter 6 Spoken Language: Pronunciation and the Development of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in an Intensive English Program

Chapter 7 Some Features of the Development of Writing in an Intensive English Program

Chapter 8 Epilogue　　

Index

O autorze

Alan Juffs is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the English Language Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also taught English in Asia, Europe, and North America. His research focuses on formal linguistic approaches to second language acquisition, the lexicon (Juffs, 1996), and sentence processing (Juffs & Rodríguez, 2014).