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

The Romanistische Arbeitshefte (Romance Studies Workbooks), edited by Georgia Veldre-Gerner and Volker Noll since 2004, have been constant and reliable companions for students of Romance Studies for over forty years. In their conception, they are designed as a reflection of the present state of research with an orientation towards application and the specific needs and difficulties of students. Thus they provide a reliable instrument for getting to grips with various areas of Romance linguistic studies and encourage students to utilise their newly-acquired knowledge with...

The Handbooks of Applied Linguistics series is based on an understanding of Applied Linguistics as an inter- and transdisciplinary field of academic enquiry. Applied Linguistics deals with the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language and communication are a central issue.

The Handbooks of Applied Linguistics provide a state-of-the-art description of established and emerging areas of Applied Linguistics. Each volume gives an overview of the field, identifies most important traditions and their findings, identifies the gaps in...

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...

It has been said there are more Chinese learning English than there are Americans. We all have a sense that the first decades of the third millennium, including the effects of the global financial recession, signal dramatic changes to the shape of the world to come. China's emergence as a superpower is one of the few certainties in this rapidly changing world. What is less well realised is the critical role which China's decisions about English will play in the world's communication profile. This unique volume explores this question looking at the debates on identity, cultural values and...

Measuring Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition provides an examination of the background to testing vocabulary knowledge in a second language and in particular considers the effect that word frequency and lexical coverage have on learning and communication in a foreign language. It examines the tools we have for assessing the various facets of vocabulary knowledge such as aural and written word recognition, the link with word meaning, and vocabulary depth. These are illustrated and the scores they produce are demonstrated to provide normative data. Vocabulary acquisition from course...

Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Studie ist ein zentrales Paradox des kommunikativen Fremdsprachenunterrichts: Das Lernziel der kommunikativen Kompetenz ist ein Ideal geblieben, meist entwickelt sich nur eine Minderheit schulischer Fremdsprachenlerner zu engagiert in eigener Sache Kommunizierenden, zu kompetenten und konversationell flexiblen Sprechern. Diese negative Bilanz wird im theoretischen Teil unter zwei sich erganzenden Gesichtspunkten hinterfragt: dem der Interaktion und dem der Kognition. Zum einen ist die starre schulische Gesprachslogik mit ihren vorhersehbaren Ablaufen dem...

Authoritative, trusted, and timely, "Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts: Sixth Edition" introduces new librarians to the breadth of humanities collections, experienced librarians to nature of humanities scholarship, and the scholars themselves to a wealth of information they might otherwise have missed.

This new version of a classic resource--the first update in over a decade--has been refreshed to account for the myriad of digital resources that have rewritten the rules of the reference and research world, and been expanded to include significantly increased coverage...

The acquisition of Mandarin Chinese, one of the most important and widely spoken languages in the world today, is the focus of this innovative study. It describes the rise of Chinese as a global language and the many challenges and opportunities associated with learning it. The collaborative, multiple-case study and cross-case analysis is presented from three distinct but complementary theoretical and analytic perspectives: linguistic, sociocultural, and narrative. The book reveals fascinating dimensions of Chinese language learning based on vivid first-person accounts (with...

This book presents a collection of thematically focused articles addressing culture-specific features of academic communication, with a particular focus on communication conducted in English as an Additional Language and directed at multicultural audiences. It comprises papers arranged in four sections: Expert writers, Novice writers and readers, Conference participants, and Non-research academic genres. The book explicitly addresses and is centred upon the concept of a research niche understood as a space to be captured and populated, as a temporary location to move or grow out of in the...