Author: David Singleton & Zsolt K. Lengyel
Assembles a variety of perspectives on the age factor in second language acquistion through all of which runs the common thread of certain scepticism with regard to absolutist version of the idea that there is a particul ... |
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An Eco-cultural Perspective
Author: Pierre R. Dasen & Ramesh Chandra Mishra
Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in relation to our body to talk about small-scale space ('put the knife on the right of the plate and the fork on the left'), while geocentric spatial language uses geographic ... |
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Author: Robert-Alain De Beaugrande
It has long been an assumption in the field of English as a foreign language that those who speak the language as natives pronounce the way it should be taught. Most influential figures in the field have been outsider ... |
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A Linguistic Introduction
Author: Helen Goodluck
This text is an up-to-date introduction to language acquisition, designed to meet the needs of advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in linguistics and cognitive science. It is the first language acquis ... |
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Author: Tony Silva, Colleen Brice & Melinda Reichelt
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 re ... |
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Author: Michael Cribb
English is now firmly established as an international language around the globe and as such is no longer the preserve of the native speaker and the inner circle of counties. It is estimated that there are three times as ... |
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Author: Judit Kormos & Anne Margaret Smith
This book is intended to help language teachers to work effectively and successfully with students who have specific learning differences (SpLD) such as dyslexia. The book takes an inclusive and practical approach to lan ... |
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The Acquisition of Verb Placement in Swiss German
Author: Manuela Schonenberger
How children acquire competence in verb placement in languages in which verb placement in matrix clauses does not coincide with that in embedded clauses is not well understood. Verb-Second languages like German and Du ... |
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From Extraction to Analysis
Author: Magali Paquot
Academic vocabulary is in fashion, as witnessed by the increasing number of books published on the topic. In the first part of this book , Magali Paquot scrutinizes the concept of 'academic vocabulary' and proposes a cor ... |
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Background, Evidence and Classroom Applications
Author: David Wood
This volume presents a comprehensive look at the phenomenon of formulaic language (multi-word units believed to be mentally stored and retrieved as single units) and its role;in fluent speech production. Focusing on seco ... |
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Author: Clare Gallaway & Brian J. Richards
Language addressed to children, or 'Baby Talk', became the subject of research interest thirty years ago. Since then, the linguistic environment of infants and toddlers has been widely studied. Input and Interaction in L ... |
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Author: Gillian Brown, Kirsten Malmkjaer & John Williams
This original collection revisits and re-evaluates Chomsky's classic competence/performance distinction from a wide variety of perspectives and areas of expertise. The discussion is placed within a broad framework, takin ... |
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Ecological Perspectives
Author: Claire J. Kramsch
Language Acquisition and Language Socialization brings together well-known scholars in two relatively distinct fields - language acquisition and language socialization - and from a variety of orientations within applied ... |
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The Emergence of the Mediated Mind
Author: Katherine Nelson
Contemporary study of language and cognition in infancy and early childhood has received considerable, well deserved attention. However, little effort has been directed to the means by which language becomes a cognitive ... |
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Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
Author: Steven Levinson
Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial ... |
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Looking Beneath the Surface
Author: Madeline E. Ehrman
The insights, techniques and skills needed to understand why some adult students have difficulties with learning a second language are presented in this book. The author's premise is that what appears on the surface is o ... |
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The Visible and Invisible Classroom
Author: Madeline E. Ehrman & Zoltan Dornyei
In this book, Madeline Ehrman and Zoltan Dornyei demonstrate how concepts from clinical and social psychology can help linguists and teachers understand the conditions which make second language learning more or less eff ... |
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Pathways to the New Century
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The Case of Past Reference in Turkish
Author: Ayhan Aksu-Koc
Ayhan Aksu-Koc's empirical research on Turkish children's acquisition of the past tense forms the basis for this original and important contribution to the current debate among psycholinguistics on the interrelationship ... |
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Implications for the Cognition-Language Relationship
Author: Jean-Adolphe Rondal & Neil O'Connor
Is normal language acquisition possible in spite of serious intellectual impairment? The answer, it would appear, is positive. This book summarizes and discusses recent evidence in this respect. The bulk of the argument ... |
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