Language Experience Approach

In this book, I attempt to show how colonial and postcolonial political forces have endeavoured to reconstruct the national identity of Morocco, on the basis of cultural representations and ideological constructions closely related to nationalist and...

This collection of papers reports our attempt to sketch how Japanese grammar can be represented in a constraint-based formalism. Our first attempt of this nature appeared a decade ago as Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar (Gunji 1987) and in several...

This comprehensive guide to research and debate centres around language learning in childhood, the age factor and the different contexts where language learning happens, including home and school contexts. The scope is wide, capturing examples of studies...

The contributors to Internationalising the University: the Chinese Context offer an in-depth understanding of the rapidly changing developments in the fields of institutional, social, management, curriculum and student concerns and changes.Book...

Study abroad is often seen as a crucial dimension of language learning - developing communicative proficiency, language awareness, and intercultural competence. The author provides an overview and assessment of research on language learning in study...

This volume explains how analyzing textual elements that aren't part of the text but connected to it can be used with K-16 students to improve comprehension, engagement, critical thinking, and media literacy. Beginning with an introduction that...

A collection of research reports on lived experiences of the English language focusing on the subjective meanings and emotions involved in EFL contexts of learning and teaching. The contributors make use of fresh theoretical frameworks and innovative...

I first used the Internet in fall 1993, as a Fulbright Scholar at Charles University in Prague. I immediately recognized that the Internet would radically transform second language teaching and learning, and within a year had written my first book on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981205830Author Judy ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Thompson Language CenterPublisher Thompson Language CenterWeight(grams)...

Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education contains theoretical rationale, resources and examples to help readers understand and deal with situations involving contact between learners or educators from different cultural backgrounds, as...

This book explores how academics publically evaluate each others' work. Focusing on blurbs, book reviews, review articles, and literature reviews, the international contributors to the volume show how writers manage to critically engage with others'...

This book examines language choice in contemporary Cambodia. It uses the spread of English, and French attempts at thwarting it in favor of their own language, to study and evaluate competing explanations for the spread of English globally. The book...

This book explores the interplay of ICT and language learning within the context of technological and social change, from the printing press to the mobile phone. It considers how technological advances, through their impact on communication, language and...

Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education contains theoretical rationale, resources and examples to help readers understand and deal with situations involving contact between learners or educators from different cultural backgrounds, as...

Non-native language teachers have often been viewed as an unavoidable fate of the profession, rather than an asset worth exploring and investigating. Now that non-natives are increasingly found teaching languages, and particularly English, both in ESL...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979280016Author Roni Rosenthal-GazitFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Storytime WorldPublisher Storytime WorldWeight(grams) 373gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Understanding what constitutes expertise in language learning and teaching is important for theoretical reasons related to psycholinguistic, and applied linguistic, enquiry. It also has many significant applications in practice, particularly in relation...

The book emerges from several contemporary concerns in mathematics, language, and mathematics education. However, the book takes a different stance with respect to language by combining discussion of linguistics and mathematics using examples from each...

Abstract: An outline of the structure of the book is presented, making the argument that the language we use for everyday mathematical ideas presents us with valuable evidence and insights into the nature of mathematics. Keywords: mathematical discourse,...

Text Therapeutics was written specifically for medical science professionals whose mother tongue is not English. Its objective is to assist non-native English- speaking physicians or scientists in the task of writing research documents for medical...

Researching communication disorders involves a range of disciplines including speech-language pathology, linguistics and psychology. This book provides an interdisciplinary description of the theoretical frameworks in the field of communication disorders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648758693Author Yedida BessemerFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Action Learning, Action Research AssociationPublisher Action Learning, Action...

This comprehensive guide to research and debate centres around language learning in childhood, the age factor and the different contexts where language learning happens, including home and school contexts. The scope is wide, capturing examples of studies...

This book offers an autobiographical reflexive approach to foreign language education. It offers unique ways of developing vocational language teaching as an integrated holistic approach combining language contents with vocationally relevant topics and...

Dynamic Assessment (DA) reconceptualizes classroom interactions by arguing that teaching and assessment should not be distinct undertakings. This book offers a much-needed coherent framework for co-constructing a ZPD with learners in order to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986132711Author Taghreed M Al-SarajFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Educate Right Ltd.Publisher Educate Right Ltd.Weight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

One of the most civilized nations in history, China has a long-standing writing tradition and many Chinese texts have become world treasures. However, the way the Chinese teach writing in various countries in contemporary times is little known to the...

This volume brings together contributions by leading researchers of the social interactional and socio-cultural approaches to language learning and teaching. It provides both an introduction to this important growth point and also an overview of cutting...

International perspectives on intercultural learning are presented within a framework of cultures of learning related to education and language learning and use in academic contexts. Intercultural learning involves learners travelling to learn in a place...

The premise that writing is a socially-situated act of interaction between readers and writers is well established. This volume first, corroborates this premise by citing pertinent evidence, through the analysis of written texts and interactive writing...

In this book Archibald describes two studies conducted within a parametric framework in the area of second language acquisition. The studies are designed to investigate the acquisition of English stress patterns (via both production and perception...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755211166Author Roy HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648321675Author Nicky GluchFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Sydney School of Arts and HumanitiesPublisher Sydney School of Arts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646838120Author Julian DickensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Julian DickensonPublisher Julian DickensonWeight(grams) 210g

Leading researchers in the field of spoken discourse and language teaching offer an empirically informed, issues-based discussion of the present state of research into spoken language. They address some of the complex and rewarding opportunities offered...

An introduction by leading experts in the field to the fascinating subject of translating audiovisual programmes for the television, the cinema, the Internet and the stage and the problems the differences between cultures can cause.RACHELE ANTONINI is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977238160Author Dr Sue SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620022856Author P C DictionaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Twin Sisters ProductionsPublisher Twin Sisters ProductionsWeight(grams)...

An ongoing challenge facing educators is the rising need to best accommodate English language learners in today's classrooms. As the ELL population continues to significantly increase, there is also a demand for quality teacher preparation aligned with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952751899Author Lawrence MuchemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Eliva PressPublisher Eliva PressWeight(grams) 152g