Optimizing Language Learners' Nonverbal Behavior: From Tenet to Technique
ISBN: 9781783097364 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book highlights the pivotal role that nonverbal behavior plays in target language communication, affect and cognition. It integrates research tenets and video demonstrations of nonverbal behavior with structured activities that will guide teachers and learners of any language to capitalize on the nonverbal means at their disposal. It does not shy away from the challenges that nonverbal communication poses in target language communication, including issues of personal and cultural identity that emerge with languages around the world. With its easy-to-use format, solid research support,... This book highlights the pivotal role that nonverbal behavior plays in target language communication, affect and cognition. It integrates research ... |
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Crosslinguistic Influence and Distinctive Patterns of Language Learning: Findings and Insights from a Learner Corpus
ISBN: 9781783098767 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book details patterns of language use that can be found in the writing of adult immigrant learners of Norwegian as a second language (L2). Each study draws its data from a single corpus of texts written for a proficiency test of L2 Norwegian by learners representing 10 different first language (L1) backgrounds. The participants of the study are immigrants to Norway and the book deals with the varying levels and types of language difficulties faced by such learners from differing backgrounds. The studies examine the learners' use of Norwegian in relation to the morphological,... This book details patterns of language use that can be found in the writing of adult immigrant learners of Norwegian as a second language (L2). Eac... |
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Representations of the World in Language Textbooks
ISBN: 9781783099559 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. It points to the need for language learning materials to deal seriously with knowledge about the world, including its diversities and problems.
This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign an...
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Portraits of Second Language Learners: An L2 Learner Agency Perspective
ISBN: 9781783099870 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using L2 socialization theory as a theoretical framework, this book investigates the ways in which four learners of Japanese exercise their agency to pursue their learning goals and documents how the diverse ways in which they do so form different trajectories of learning and create different experiences of L2 socialization.
Using L2 socialization theory as a theoretical framework, this book investigates the ways in which four learners of Japanese exercise their agency to ...
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Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century: Building on Experience
ISBN: 9781783090709 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bilingual education is one of the fastest growing disciplines within applied linguistics. This book includes the work of 20 specialists working in various educational contexts across Europe, Latin America and North America to create a volume which is both comprehensive in scope and multidimensional in its coverage of current bilingual initiatives. The central themes of this volume, which draws on past experiences of bilingual education, include issues in language use in classrooms at elementary, secondary and tertiary levels; participant perspectives on bilingual education experiences; and... Bilingual education is one of the fastest growing disciplines within applied linguistics. This book includes the work of 20 specialists working in ... |
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Working Memory in Second Language Acquisition and Processing, 87
ISBN: 9781783093588 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique volume offers a comprehensive discussion of essential theoretical and methodological issues concerning the pivotal role of working memory in second language learning and processing. The collection opens with a foreword and introductory theoretical chapters written by leading figures in the field of cognitive psychology. Following these are three research sections containing chapters providing original data and innovative insights into the dynamic and complex relationships between working memory and specific areas of second language processing, instruction, performance and... This unique volume offers a comprehensive discussion of essential theoretical and methodological issues concerning the pivotal role of working memo... |
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Learning Pragmatics from Native and Nonnative Language Teachers
ISBN: 9781783099924 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on how both nonnative and native teachers may enhance their handling of target language pragmatics in the classroom and provides ideas that both sets of teachers may draw on to compensate for gaps in their knowledge. Focus is also given to learner strategies and motivation, technological advances, assessment and research methods.
This book focuses on how both nonnative and native teachers may enhance their handling of target language pragmatics in the classroom and provides ide...
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The Language of Business Studies Lectures: A Corpus-assisted Analysis
ISBN: 9789027254009 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New opportunities in the global workplace have heightened interest in business studies. In response to this trend, this book presents an in-depth analysis of a corpus of authentic business studies lectures, focusing on spoken, academic, disciplinary and professional features (e.g., speech rate, interactive devices, specialized lexis) that are crucial to comprehension, but often problematic for non-native speakers. The investigation adopts an original multi-pronged approach including quantitative, qualitative and comparative analyses. It utilizes techniques drawn mainly from corpus linguistics...
New opportunities in the global workplace have heightened interest in business studies. In response to this trend, this book presents an in-depth anal...
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Learning and Teaching Languages Through Content: A Counterbalanced Approach
ISBN: 9789027219749 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a synthesis of classroom SLA research that has helped to shape evolving perspectives of content-based instruction since the introduction of immersion programs in Montreal more than 40 years ago, this book presents an updated perspective on integrating language and content in ways that engage second language learners with language across the curriculum. A range of instructional practices observed in immersion and content-based classrooms is highlighted to set the stage for justifying a counterbalanced approach that integrates both content-based and form-focused instructional options...
Based on a synthesis of classroom SLA research that has helped to shape evolving perspectives of content-based instruction since the introduction of i...
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Goals for Academic Writing: ESL Students and Their Instructors
ISBN: 9789027219695 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book documents the results of a multi-year project that investigated the goals for writing improvement among 45 students and their instructors in intensive courses of English as a Second Language (ESL) then, a year later, in academic programs at two Canadian universities. The researchers present a detailed framework to describe these goals from the perspectives of the students as well as their instructors. The goals are analyzed for groups of students from particular backgrounds internationally, for changes over time, and in relation to the ESL and academic courses. The authors use...
This book documents the results of a multi-year project that investigated the goals for writing improvement among 45 students and their instructors in...
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Mediating Discourse Online
ISBN: 9789027205193 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information and communication technology is transforming our notion of literacy. In the study of second language learning, there is an acute need to understand how learners collaborate in mediating discourse online. This edited volume offers essays and research studies that lead us to question the borders between speech and writing, to redefine narrative, to speculate on the consequences of many-to-many communication, and to ponder the ethics of researching online interaction.Using diverse technologies (bulletin boards, course management systems, chats, instant messaging, online gaming) and...
Information and communication technology is transforming our notion of literacy. In the study of second language learning, there is an acute need to u...
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Clausal Complements in Native and Learner Spoken English: A Corpus-Based Study with Lindsei and Vicolse
ISBN: 9783034311847 / Angielski / Miękka / 349 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study deals with the frequency and use of clausal complementation in the oral production of two different Spanish learner groups (i.e. Galician/Spanish learners and Spanish learners) as compared with a further learner group (i.e. German learners) and with native speakers (British students). By using corpus and learner linguistic approaches, this research aims to find out and explain the similarities and differences regarding the use of clausal complementation structures in the oral English of several groups of non-native and native speakers. In addition, this study also depicts the...
This study deals with the frequency and use of clausal complementation in the oral production of two different Spanish learner groups (i.e. Galician/S...
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Linguistic theory. Analysis of two chapters of the Quran
ISBN: 9783656625858 / Arabski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2011 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Arabistic, grade: Excellent, language: Arabic, abstract: This study is an attempt to give a general look at the text and sentence linguistics theory through many of criteria and definitions. Also it's going toward approve some of the theoretical facts which refers to Arab traditional studies. As well it's a kind of removing the cover of and close the relations between traditional and modern study in a theoretical perspective. Hence the thesis came into an Introduction, three chapters (the first was the...
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2011 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Arabistic, grade: Excellent, language: Arabic, abstract: Thi...
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591,48 zł |
Teaching and Learning Resources for Endangered Languages
ISBN: 9789004539693 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development of teaching and learning materials is an essential component of endangered language revitalisation, yet there is very little academic research on this crucial topic. Our volume seeks to address this imbalance by examining endangered language pedagogical materials from around the world including traditional resources such as grammars, dictionaries, and textbooks, as well as new media such as online courses, apps, video games, etc. Chapters provide theoretical and applied perspectives, and consider Indigenous and other threatened languages from various regions of the world...
The development of teaching and learning materials is an essential component of endangered language revitalisation, yet there is very little academic ...
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594,81 zł |
Design Principles for Teaching Effective Writing
ISBN: 9789004270473 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Observing Writing: Insights from Keystroke Logging and Handwriting
ISBN: 9789004392519 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Observing writing: Insights from Keystroke Logging and Handwriting is a timely volume appearing twelve years after the Studies in Writing volume Computer Keystroke Logging and Writing (Sullivan & Lindgren, 2006). The 2006 volume provided the reader with a fundamental account of keystroke logging, a methodology in which a piece of software records every keystroke, cursor and mouse movement a writer undertakes during a writing session. This new volume highlights current theoretical and applied research questions in keystroke logging and handwriting research that observes writing. In this...
Observing writing: Insights from Keystroke Logging and Handwriting is a timely volume appearing twelve years after the Studies in Writing volume Compu...
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Multilingual Norms
ISBN: 9783631596371 / Angielski / Miękka / 419 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multilinguals are not multiple monolinguals. Yet multilingual assessment proceeds through monolingual norms, as if fair conclusions were possible in the absence of fair comparison. In addition, multilingualism concerns what people do with language, not what languages do to people. Yet research focus remains on multilinguals languages, as if languages existed despite their users. This book redresses these paradoxes. Multilingual scholars, teachers and speech-language clinicians from Europe, Asia, Australia and the US contribute the first studies dedicated to multilingual norms, those found in...
Multilinguals are not multiple monolinguals. Yet multilingual assessment proceeds through monolingual norms, as if fair conclusions were possible in t...
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597,08 zł |
StilGestalten
ISBN: 9783484311619 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 457 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Arbeit hat zwei Teile: Der Historische Teil gibt einen Uberblick uber die Entwicklung der Rede vom Stil seit dem Ende der Aufklarung; der Systematische Teil sichtet und bewertet die gegenwartig diskutierten philologischen, psychologischen und didaktischen Modelle zur Erklarung von Stil und Stilentwicklung und kommt zu einer didaktisch fundierten Stildefinition, die praktisch-methodische Konsequenzen hat. Aus beiden Teilen zusammen ergibt sich, da die Diffamierung der Rhetorik und damit einhergehend die Ablosung einer 'formativen' Tradition der 'Stil-Bildung' durch die... Die Arbeit hat zwei Teile: Der Historische Teil gibt einen Uberblick uber die Entwicklung der Rede vom Stil seit dem Ende der Aufklarung; de... |
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Deutsche Sprachbücher in Böhmen und Mähren vom 15. Jahrhundert bis 1918
ISBN: 9783110175042 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vom 12. bis zum 20. Jh. galt das Deutsche in den bohmischen Landern als die wichtigste 'moderne' Fremdsprache und war neben dem Lateinischen das bedeutendste Medium fur den Wissens- und Technologietransfer. Entsprechend umfangreich ist die Uberlieferung an Lehrbuchern, Lerngrammatiken und Vokabularen, die schon vom 15. Jh. an bis zur Grundung der ersten tschechoslowakischen Republik 1918 zum Zweck des Erwerbs der deutschen Sprache verfat wurden. In der vorliegenden Bibliographie zur Geschichte des Deutschlernens in Bohmen und Mahren wird diese Uberlieferung erstmals umfassend... Vom 12. bis zum 20. Jh. galt das Deutsche in den bohmischen Landern als die wichtigste 'moderne' Fremdsprache und war neben dem Lateinischen das be... |
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598,89 zł |
Engaging in Critical Language Studies
ISBN: 9781648029875 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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602,35 zł |