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Spelling
ISBN: 9780792349587 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. are the findings that Wade-Woolley and Siegel obtained when they studied children for whom English was a second language. Although the second language speakers performed more poorly than the native speakers on tests of syntactic knowledge, phoneme deletion, and pseudoword repetition, the second language speakers were not worse than the native speakers in spelling. These results suggest that, even if children have not fully mastered the sound system of their second language, they need not be disadvantaged in spelling it. The findings appear to pose a challenge to views of reading and spelling...
are the findings that Wade-Woolley and Siegel obtained when they studied children for whom English was a second language. Although the second language...
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403,47 zł |
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The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from the New England Primer to the Scarlet Letter
ISBN: 9780804731751 / Angielski / Miękka / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance. Offering a poetics of alphabetization and explicating the alphabet's tropes and rhetorical strategies, the author demonstrates the far-reaching cultural power of such apparently neutral statements as "A is for apple." The new market for children's books in the eighteenth century established for...
Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of te...
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145,98 zł |
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Introduction to Historical Linguistics
ISBN: 9780819114600 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1972, this introductory text deals with human language and its relationship to other areas of human culture and behavior. Discussions include such diverse topics as the classification of languages, sound and grammar changes, reconstruction, and social and psychological factors involved in the history and development of language.
Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1972, this introductory text deals with human language and its relationship to other areas of human cultur...
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399,00 zł |
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Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
ISBN: 9781403933812 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South African Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu, revealing the ways in which colonial linguistics contributed to both the making of the colonial order and to instabilities at the heart of the project.
The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South ...
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403,47 zł |
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Language & Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective
ISBN: 9781853590054 / Angielski / Miękka / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A selection of Professor Fishman's writings, during the past two decades, on language and ethnicity in minority perspective, this volume concentrates on six major topics: - What is ethnicity and how is it linked to language? - Language maintenance and language shift in ethnocultural perspective - The ethnic dimension in language planning - Language and ethnicity in education: the bilingual minority focus - Elites and rank-and-file: contrasts and contexts - Ethnolinguistic homogeneity and heterogeneity: national and international causes and consequences. Each major topic is prefaced by a...
A selection of Professor Fishman's writings, during the past two decades, on language and ethnicity in minority perspective, this volume concentrates ...
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168,84 zł |
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The Other Languages of Europe: Demographic, Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives
ISBN: 9781853595097 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together in a combined frame of reference.
The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a w...
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143,22 zł |
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Runische Schriftkultur in kontinental-skandinavischer und -angelsächsischer Wechselbeziehung
ISBN: 9783110143287 / Angielski / Twarda / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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809,06 zł |
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Early History of the Alphabet
ISBN: 9789652234360 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alphabetic writing is one of the principal features of Western culture. Our knowledge of the early history, development and spread of the alphabet is constantly changing. This introduction to West Semitic epigraphy and paleography is the author's personal way of introducing this field of study on the basis of the evidence available to date. Alphabetic writing is one of the principal features of Western culture. Our knowledge of the early history, development and spread of the alphabet ... |
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264,08 zł |
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Readers Guide to Intermediate Japanese
ISBN: 9780824820473 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this book is to help students struggling to become proficient in reading Japanese. It fills a gap in the expanding literature on Japanese-language instruction by focusing exclusively on patterns and expressions found in the written language. Although many pedagogical aids to learning the spoken language are available, there is very little to guide students who are trying to master the complexities of the written language. Based on the authors' extensive experience in teaching third- and fourth-year Japanese at American universities, the Reader's Guide to Intermediate... The aim of this book is to help students struggling to become proficient in reading Japanese. It fills a gap in the expanding literature on Japanes... |
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92,18 zł |
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Artificial Intelligence in Second Language Learning: Raising Error Awareness
ISBN: 9781853598296 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume argues that adults can learn English as a second language if their typical errors are corrected systematically and in line with their preferred style of learning. The remedy designed for this purpose relies on artificial intelligence. The book describes original research which demonstrates the success of this approach.
This volume argues that adults can learn English as a second language if their typical errors are corrected systematically and in line with their pref...
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168,84 zł |
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Language Diversity in the Pacific: Endangerment and Survival, 134
ISBN: 9781853598678 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Southwest Pacific from Southern China through Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands constitutes the richest linguistic region of the world. That rich resource cannot be taken for granted. Some of its languages have already been lost; many more are under threat. The challenge is to describe the languages that exist today and to adopt policies that will support their maintenance. The Southwest Pacific from Southern China through Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands constitutes the richest linguistic region of the wor... |
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460,91 zł |
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Learning to Spell: Research, Theory, and Practice Across Languages
ISBN: 9780805821611 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spelling is a human literacy ability that reflects language and nonlanguage cognitive processes. This collection of papers presents a sample of contemporary research across different languages that addresses this ability. To understand spelling as an interesting scientific problem, there are several important perspectives. First, spelling is the use of conventionalized writing systems that encode languages. A second asks how children learn to spell.
Spelling is a human literacy ability that reflects language and nonlanguage cognitive processes. This collection of papers presents a sample of contem...
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287,15 zł |
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The Logodaedalian's Dictionary of Interesting and Unusual Words
ISBN: 9780872496835 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,84 zł |
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Writing Revolution
ISBN: 9781405154062 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the development of this communication tool to show how it has conquered the world.
In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transc...
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445,54 zł |
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Writing Revolution
ISBN: 9781405154079 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the development of this communication tool to show how it has conquered the world.
In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transc...
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168,84 zł |
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English Pronunciation Illustrated
ISBN: 9780521206341 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This very popular pronunciation practice book is for intermediate and more advanced students of English who wish to improve their pronunciation and listening comprehension. The material can be used in class or by learners studying individually, using the Audio recordings. The practice material is illustrated by amusing cartoons throughout the book.
This very popular pronunciation practice book is for intermediate and more advanced students of English who wish to improve their pronunciation and li...
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165,25 zł |
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Cause & Effect/Concepts & Comments: Answer Key and Video Transcripts
ISBN: 9781413006124 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through wonderful readings and carefully designed activities, this best-selling series helps students develop reading skills and systematically increase their active vocabulary. Learners develop useful and relevant vocabulary while exploring and expanding critical thinking skills.
Through wonderful readings and carefully designed activities, this best-selling series helps students develop reading skills and systematically increa...
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174,22 zł |
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Contact Linguistics : Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes
ISBN: 9780198299523 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contact Linguistics is a critical investigation of what happens to the grammars of languages when bilingual speakers use both their languages in the same clause. It consolidates earlier insights and presents the new theoretical and empirical work of a scholar whose ideas have had a fundamental impact on the field. It also shows that bilingual data offer a revealing window on the structure of the language faculty. Carol Myers-Scotton examines the nature of major contact phenomena, especially lexical borrowing, grammatical convergence, codeswitching, first language attrition, mixed languages,...
Contact Linguistics is a critical investigation of what happens to the grammars of languages when bilingual speakers use both their languages in the s...
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389,07 zł |
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Gender and Language Research Methodologies
ISBN: 9780230550698 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book that draws together the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender. Approaches include Sociolinguistics, Conversation analysis, Corpus linguistics, Critical discourse analysis, Feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, Discursive psychology and Queer theory.
The first book that draws together the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender. Approaches include Sociolinguistics...
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403,47 zł |
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Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes: The Lyell Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford 1999
ISBN: 9780754663379 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible movements.The purpose of this study is to focus on the writing of scribes from late antiquity to the beginning of the sixteenth century, and to identify those features which are a scribe's personal contribution to the techniques and art of handwriting. The book opens with three chapters surveying the various...
This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allo...
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730,17 zł |