This innovative book examines the relationship between foreign (L2) language acquisition and task-based learning from an output perspective, with a concentration on the learner's discourse and retrospection. Author Cynthia Lee explores this issue in an experimental context; with particular reference to Hong Kong Chinese tertiary learners of English. Lee's study contributes to research on L2 acquisition and casts light on task-based learning and pedagogy in Hong Kong classrooms and beyond. English language teaching practitioners, researchers, and applied linguists will find special value in...
This innovative book examines the relationship between foreign (L2) language acquisition and task-based learning from an output perspective, with a co...
A man murders his wife after she has admitted her infidelity; another man kills an openly gay teammate after receiving a massage; a third man, white, goes for a jog in a -bad- neighborhood, carrying a pistol, and shoots an African American teenager who had his hands in his pockets. When brought before the criminal justice system, all three men argue that they should be found -not guilty-; the first two use the defense of provocation, while the third argues he used his gun in self-defense.
Drawing upon these and similar cases, Cynthia Lee shows how two well-established, traditional...
A man murders his wife after she has admitted her infidelity; another man kills an openly gay teammate after receiving a massage; a third man, whit...
Communication and Language play a foundational role in the overall pursuit of equity and social justice in education. This volume does not take up the majority and dominant views which are especially visible in developments in the field of linguistic education and English language instruction. Rather, it travels the path less followed, to attend to the language and communication concerns of populations that possess little political and economic power and whose academic and social needs are often neglected. The volume attends to the role of language acquisition in "levelling the playing field"...
Communication and Language play a foundational role in the overall pursuit of equity and social justice in education. This volume does not take up the...
Communication and Language play a foundational role in the overall pursuit of equity and social justice in education. This volume does not take up the majority and dominant views which are especially visible in developments in the field of linguistic education and English language instruction. Rather, it travels the path less followed, to attend to the language and communication concerns of populations that possess little political and economic power and whose academic and social needs are often neglected. The volume attends to the role of language acquisition in "levelling the playing field"...
Communication and Language play a foundational role in the overall pursuit of equity and social justice in education. This volume does not take up the...
Late 19th century. In the city of Dawlish, people and things disappear without explanation, an event known as an -unmaking.- Those that survive an unmaking are cast out of good society. Many form -unmade societies- in which life's mysteries are celebrated. The unmade world observes different rules of behavior, when it can be bothered to have rules at all. When her husband is unmade on their wedding night, young Allegra Janeway has few options left in -good- society. And in the unmade world, everyone seems to think she possesses special abilities.
Late 19th century. In the city of Dawlish, people and things disappear without explanation, an event known as an -unmaking.- Those that survive an unm...
It is written for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers and readers who are interested in interlanguage pragmatics research, acquisition and teaching, with particular reference to speech acts performed by Chinese learners of English, and their relationships with the learners' first language and cultural concepts.
It is written for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers and readers who are interested in interlanguage pragmatics research, acquisition...
