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Assessing Second Language Writing in Academic Contexts
ISBN: 9780893916596 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first volume to focus on the assessment of second language writing. The collection as a whole provides coverage of all issues in second language writing assessment, starting from the context in which and for which assessment must occur, moving through the aspects of decision-making and design in a writing assessment program, and then considering how the need to evaluate any program on assessment can be carried out. After a discussion of issues of public reporting, an area which will receive increasing attention in the next few years, the volume closes with a discussion of what new...
This is the first volume to focus on the assessment of second language writing. The collection as a whole provides coverage of all issues in second la...
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360,89 |
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Assessing Second Language Writing in Academic Contexts
ISBN: 9780893917920 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first volume to focus on the assessment of second language writing. The collection as a whole provides coverage of all issues in second language writing assessment, starting from the context in which and for which assessment must occur, moving through the aspects of decision-making and design in a writing assessment program, and then considering how the need to evaluate any program on assessment can be carried out. After a discussion of issues of public reporting, an area which will receive increasing attention in the next few years, the volume closes with a discussion of what new...
This is the first volume to focus on the assessment of second language writing. The collection as a whole provides coverage of all issues in second la...
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216,48 |
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Second Language Reading and Vocabulary Learning
ISBN: 9780893918507 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading ability and vocabulary knowledge are two of the most important components of performance in a second language, especially in academic settings. Each depend on the other, as vocabulary knowledge is the single most important factor in reading comprehension, while reading is the single most important means by which intermediate and advanced learners acquire new words. This symbiotic relationship is the subject of this volume. The authors argue that building vocabulary through reading is a fruitful but complex activity that needs better understanding and more careful guidance. This book...
Reading ability and vocabulary knowledge are two of the most important components of performance in a second language, especially in academic settings...
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283,55 |
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The Power of CALL
ISBN: 9780940753037 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) written by specialists in specific areas of electronic media. It is designed to be an accessible treatment of CALL for educators and would also make a suitable textbook for a course on CALL. The book includes nine chapters, each written by an authority in the area of the chapter content. The material is divided into three sections: Background, Technology and Language Skills.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) written by specialists in specific areas of ele...
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107,68 |
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Writing in an Electronic Medium: Research with Language Learners
ISBN: 9780940753143 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An excellent collection of research studies carried out with mature (late adolescent or adult) language learners in second and foreign language instructional contexts. The computer medium of these qualitative and quantitative studies embraces not only word processing, but also email, hypertext and webpages. Chapters include: Word Processing and Beyond; Word Processing in the EFL Classroom; A Comparative Study of Text Analysis and Peer Tutoring as Input to Writing on Computer in an ESL Context; The Effect of Peer Feedback versus Self-Assessment on the Quality and Revisions of Compositions;...
An excellent collection of research studies carried out with mature (late adolescent or adult) language learners in second and foreign language instru...
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150,84 |
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Vygotskian Approaches to Second Language Research
ISBN: 9781567500240 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In many ways, this edited volume can be read as a showcase for the state of affairs in SLA research. It exemplifies what makes current SLA work so energetic and vibrant, topically and methodologically innovative, insightful in its results, and intellectually and episteologically expansive in its implications and significance beyond second language acquisition. - Applied Linguistics This text brings together the work of scholars attempting to extend Vygotsky's theory to second language research. The papers included, are organized according to three of the major topics of interest in... In many ways, this edited volume can be read as a showcase for the state of affairs in SLA research. It exemplifies what makes current SLA work so ... |
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360,89 |
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Academic Writing in a Second Language: Essays on Research and Pedagogy
ISBN: 9781567501155 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring research and pedagogy on second language writing, this volume focuses on issues concerning policy decisions affecting foreign students.
Exploring research and pedagogy on second language writing, this volume focuses on issues concerning policy decisions affecting foreign students. <... |
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360,89 |
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Input Processing and Grammar Instruction in Second Language Acquisition
ISBN: 9781567502381 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an alternative to the grammar debate in second language acquisition theory and teaching. Accepting that language acquisition is at least partially input dependent, the author asks how grammatical form is processed in the input by second language learners and is it possible to assist this in ways that help the learner to create richer grammatical intake. He answers these questions and explains why traditional paradigms are not psycholinguistically motivated. Drawing on research from both first and second language acquisition, he outlines a model for input processing in... This book provides an alternative to the grammar debate in second language acquisition theory and teaching. Accepting that language acquisition is ... |
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Words Into Worlds: Learning a Second Language Through Process Drama
ISBN: 9781567503685 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An analysis of learning a second language through process drama. Topics covered include: evoking dramatic moments in second language learning and teaching; the nature of teacher-student interaction in drama-orientated language classrooms; and the psycho-social aspect of drama on learning.
An analysis of learning a second language through process drama. Topics covered include: evoking dramatic moments in second language learning and teac...
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381,51 |
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Words Into Worlds: Learning a Second Language Through Process Drama
ISBN: 9781567503692 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An analysis of learning a second language through process drama. Topics covered include: evoking dramatic moments in second language learning and teaching; the nature of teacher-student interaction in drama-orientated language classrooms; and the psycho-social aspect of drama on learning.
An analysis of learning a second language through process drama. Topics covered include: evoking dramatic moments in second language learning and teac...
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221,69 |
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Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship in Second Language Writing: 1993-1997
ISBN: 9781567504538 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This bibliography is a compilation of 15 short bibliographies published in an issue of the Journal of Second Language Writing from January 1993 to September 1997. The work focuses on theoretically grounded research reports and essays addressing issues in second and foreign language writing and writing instruction, containing 676 entries, each including a 50+ word summary intended to be non-evaluative in nature. The editors hope that this work will be a useful tool for developing theory, research, and instruction in second language writing.
This bibliography is a compilation of 15 short bibliographies published in an issue of the Journal of Second Language Writing from January 1993 to ... |
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The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search of the Promised Land
ISBN: 9781932559118 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The POLITICS OF SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING: IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND is the first edited collection to present a sustained discussion of classroom practices in larger contexts of institutional politics and policies. Contributors focus on the policies on assessment, placement, credit, class size, course content, instructional practices, teacher preparation, and teacher support. They examine politics in terms of the relationships and interaction between second language writing professionals and colleagues at the program, department, school, college, and university levels and beyond....
The POLITICS OF SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING: IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND is the first edited collection to present a sustained discussion of classroom ...
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Teaching English to Students from China
ISBN: 9789971692636 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are more than one billion people learning English as a second language around the world, and the majority of these language learners are in China. This book provides teachers of English to Chinese students with relevant information on the linguistic, cultural and pedagogical backgrounds of these students. The authors analyze the importance (and sometimes unimportance) of this background, and provide information on successful classroom teaching methods and student learning strategies.
There are more than one billion people learning English as a second language around the world, and the majority of these language learners are in Chin...
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Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing
ISBN: 9780820449050 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women experience and portray travel differently: Gender matters irreducibly and complexly. Building on recent scholarship in women s travel writing, these provocative essays not only affirm the impact of gender, but also cast women s journeys against coordinates such as race, class, culture, religion, economics, politics, and history. The book s scope is unique: Women travelers extend in time from Victorian memsahibs to contemporary -road girls-, and topics range from Anna Leonowens s slanted portrayal of Siam later popularized in the movie, The King and I, to current feminist...
Women experience and portray travel differently: Gender matters irreducibly and complexly. Building on recent scholarship in women s travel writing, t...
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Self-Fashioning in Margaret Atwood's Fiction: Dress, Culture, and Identity
ISBN: 9780820467641 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines the associations between dressing and storytelling in Margaret Atwood s fiction. As cultural representations operating within a network of codes, clothed bodies are often discussed by theorists as constructed performances or as fabricated texts, inextricably bound up with ideology and power. The clothed body often becomes a battleground in Atwood s fiction as female protagonists respond to divisive cultural scripts through self-fashioning. Furthermore, Atwood seems to collapse the opposition between the material and the spiritual through clothing, to consider dress a...
This study examines the associations between dressing and storytelling in Margaret Atwood s fiction. As cultural representations operating within a ne...
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385,50 |
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(Re)Constructing Reality: Complexity in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet
ISBN: 9780820474489 / Angielski / Twarda / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the most brilliant fictional works of the twentieth century, Lawrence Durrell s Alexandria Quartet is at once a culmination of modernist literature and an exploration of the conscious construction of truth and reality. Structured to reflect Einstein s relativity theory, the Alexandria Quartet is an intricate interweaving of linguistic resources. Using M. A. K. Halliday s systemic linguistic theory of text analysis, (Re)constructing Reality probes the inner workings of Durrell s masterpiece to bring us closer to an understanding of how meaning is created. In the...
Among the most brilliant fictional works of the twentieth century, Lawrence Durrell s Alexandria Quartet is at once a culmination of modernist ...
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Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences
ISBN: 9780820479217 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences explores the role of the sexed brain in Victorian science and literature, showing the increasing nineteenth-century fixation on abnormal brain function and the cultural desire to create mental categories based on gender. In a discussion of neurology, psychology, and other mental sciences, Rachel Malane examines how the rational male mind and the emotional female mind became a culturally accepted idea that was substantiated by scientists and how the Victorian preoccupation with the sexed mind...
Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences explores the role of the sexed brain in Victorian science ...
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Studies in Contact Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Glenn G. Gilbert
ISBN: 9780820479347 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This state-of-the-art volume features fourteen contributions by internationally renowned scholars covering three areas of contact linguistics: (1) Creolistics, beginning with an essay on the rise of the meaning and use of the word criollo, followed by studies of linguistic features of African American English, bozal Spanish, and Afrikaans; (2) German language varieties spoken in different periods and regions of the United States; and (3) theoretical issues central to analyzing language contact phenomena. Fittingly, social factors figure prominently in these analyses of language...
This state-of-the-art volume features fourteen contributions by internationally renowned scholars covering three areas of contact linguistics: (1) Cre...
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Mother, She Wrote; Matrilineal Narratives in Contemporary Women's Writing
ISBN: 9780820469003 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this enjoyable and insightful book, Yi-Lin Yu takes the heated and ongoing feminist debate over motherhood and maternal subjectivity onto a new plane in search of a new synthesis. With its specific focus on the three-tiered matrilineal narratives, Mother, She Wrote is distinguished by its complex and innovative deployment of psychoanalytic subject-relations theories, and a meticulous and detailed discussion of various literary texts, which calls forth a powerful reformulation of these narratives. One of the main strengths of this book is this simultaneous and tactful command of...
In this enjoyable and insightful book, Yi-Lin Yu takes the heated and ongoing feminist debate over motherhood and maternal subjectivity onto a new pla...
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185,40 |
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Southwestern American Indian Literature; In the Classroom and Beyond
ISBN: 9780820463445 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Southwestern American Indian Literature: In the Classroom and Beyond addresses several challenges that teaching Southwestern American Indian literature presents, and suggests innovative ways of teaching the material. Drawing on the author s experiences teaching literature both in the classroom and in the canyons of the Southwest the book covers works ranging from the famous (Leslie Marmon Silko s Ceremony) to the underappreciated (George Webb s A Pima Remembers). One chapter discusses teaching Sherman Alexie s Smoke Signals along with Silko s -Yellow Woman- as...
Southwestern American Indian Literature: In the Classroom and Beyond addresses several challenges that teaching Southwestern American Indian li...
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159,02 |
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