Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> English as a Second Language

This integrated and cutting‐edge overview of codeswitching from sociolinguistic, linguistic, and educational perspectives examines language mixing in teaching and learning contexts from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The focus is on classroom settings-- the pedagogical consequences of codeswitching for teaching and learning of language and content in one‐way and two‐way bilingual classrooms. The theme of the book responds to a recent surge of interest in pedagogical applications of bilingual language mixing, and engages related topics from theoretical,...

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Now in its 3^rd edition, this popular introduction to the foundations of research methods is designed to enable students and professionals in the field of applied linguistics to become not just casual consumers of research who passively read bits and pieces of a research article, but discerning consumers able to effectively use published research for practical purposes in educational settings. All issues important for understanding and using published research for these purposes are covered. Key principles are illustrated with research studies...

Collocation is an important tool in describing lexical behaviour in language and has received increasing attention in recent years.

Based on two corpora: LOCNESS (the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays) and MLC (the Non-English major Mainland Chinese Learner Corpus), this book explores the features of Chinese learner English with analysis of grammatical and lexical collocations. The findings show that Chinese university students use collocations with considerably less variety and Chinese language and culture exert a substantial influence on their English writing. It...

Im Zentrum dieser Studie steht die diskursive Konstruktion von Identitat und Alteritat in englischen Reiseberichten uber die Neue Welt. Sie untersucht, wie in dieser hybriden Textgattung zwischen 1560 und 1630 das Andere und Fremde reprasentiert und funktionalisiert wird, wobei das Eigene stets als zentraler Bezugspunkt fungiert. In intensiven close readings betrachtet die Autorin zahlreiche Berichte uber einige der beruhmtesten englischen Reisen des Age of Discovery von John Hawkins, Martin Frobisher, Francis Drake, Walter Ralegh und John Smith. Anhand der jeweils...

50 Activities for the First Day of School is a collection of activities teachers can use on the first day of school or anytime they need an icebreaker or team building activity. While aimed at the English language classroom, the book is useful to any teacher. Activities include getting to know you games, creative ways to do needs evaluation, as well as methods of setting your expectations for the class on day one. The first day of school is the most important and the busiest. It's also the hardest because you don't know your students yet. You don't know what they like and what their...

45 Muscle Building Recipes to Gain Muscle Mass without Shakes or Pills will help you increase the amount of protein you consume per day to help increase muscle mass. These meals and the calendar will help increase muscle in an organized manner by having a schedule and knowing what you're eating. Being too busy to eat right can sometimes become a problem and that's why this book will save you time and help nourish your body to achieve the goals you want. Make sure you know what you're eating by preparing it yourself or having someone prepare it for you.

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