Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Study & Teaching

This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It presents a large-scale, long-term research project focusing on Polish-English cognates and their use by bilingual and multilingual learners/users of English. It discusses extensive qualitative and quantitative data to explain which factors affect a learner's awareness of cognates, how adult learners can benefit from raised awareness and whether cognate vocabulary can be used with younger learners as a motivational strategy. The work shows how...

Instruments for Research into Second Languages is an accessible introduction to understanding and evaluating existing and emerging methodologies in L2 research. The book provides an introduction to the data collection materials available in the IRIS database. IRIS is an open access, searchable repository of instruments used to elicit data for research into second and foreign language learning and teaching. The book is aimed at graduate students, researchers and educators in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition.

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Featuring internationally renowned academics, this volume provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates how linguistics is engaging with the idea of 'context'. The book treats discourse as language in the contexts of its use in and above the level of the sentence and as systems of knowledge and beliefs.

In using the term context(s), the book understands this as different situations in which discourse is produced and, on the other, how analysts construe context in their work. The volume is thus concerned with language in its context of use (little d...

Mit der vorliegenden Festschrift fur Karin Kleppin wird eine Wissenschaftlerin geehrt, die die deutsche Sprachlehrforschung seit ihren Anfangen in den 1970er-Jahren mageblich gepragt hat. Der Sammelband orientiert sich an den Forschungsschwerpunkten von Karin Kleppin und ist unterteilt in die Themenbereiche Individuelles und individualisiertes Fremdsprachenlernen, Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung von bzw. zu Experten fur Fremdsprachenlehren und -lernen, Testen, Prufen, Evaluieren fremdsprachlicher Kompetenzen sowie Fremdsprachenlernen im Hochschulkontext. Die Beitrage spiegeln aktuelle...

Corpus linguistics has much to offer history, being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material.

This book demonstrates the opportunities for exploring corpus linguistics as a method in historiography and the humanities and social sciences more generally. Focussing on the topic of prostitution in 17th-century England, it shows how corpus methods can assist in social research, and can be used to deepen our understanding and comprehension.

McEnery and Baker draw principally on two sources - the newsbook Mercurius Fumigosis and the Early...