In this book, the authors present research and theory to argue that metalinguistic awareness of one's native language is altered by either the acquisition or the learning of a second language. The main argument is that people with more than one language have different knowledge of their first language (L1) than do monolingual people, and this difference can mainly be due to the effect of subsequent languages on the development and use of L1 skills.
In this book, the authors present research and theory to argue that metalinguistic awareness of one's native language is altered by either the acquisi...
In this book, the authors present research and theory to argue that metalinguistic awareness of one's native language is altered by either the acquisition or the learning of a second language.
In this book, the authors present research and theory to argue that metalinguistic awareness of one's native language is altered by either the acquisi...
The rapidly growing interest in Chinese language teaching has not resulted in the development of a strong research framework for the discipline. The book addresses this gap by drawing together research from international scholars working in the field of Chinese as a second language research. The volume is organized in three sections: Research Base for Practice, Integrating Culture and Language and Acquisition of Language Structures. One of the central contributions of the book is that each paper brings together theory and practice. Thus the book is recommended to both researchers...
The rapidly growing interest in Chinese language teaching has not resulted in the development of a strong research framework for the disciplin...
This volume looks at current issues in Intercultural Pragmatics from an applied perspective. The content is organized in three sections that encompass the primary applications of intercultural exchanges: the linguistic and cognitive domain, the social and cultural domain, and the discourse and stylistics domain. The chapters analyze real language situations in English, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Filipino or Polish.
This volume looks at current issues in Intercultural Pragmatics from an applied perspective. The content is organized in three sections that encomp...
