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This book is an innovative guide to quantitative, corpus-based research in historical and diachronic linguistics. Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray argue that, although historical linguistics has been successful in using the comparative method, the field lags...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-22
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Incorporating approaches from linguistics and psychology, The Handbook of Psycholinguistics explores language processing and language acquisition from an array of perspectives and features cutting edge research from cognitive science, neuroscience, and other related...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-09-20
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Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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This book examines the simultaneous contribution of learner vocabulary size and speed to second language performance differences across learner levels and settings. Harrington considers vocabulary size and speed, as reflected in retrieval speed and consistency, as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-19
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This edited collection explores how science can be taught to English language learners (ELLs) in 21st century classrooms. The authors focus on the ways in which pre-service and in-service science teachers have developed—or may develop—instructional effectiveness for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-18
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This book offers up-to-date insights into the long-standing controversy of whether or not Chinese learners of English adequately express their attitudes in written English. It compares four writing datasets from three groups of student writers (e.g., English-speaking...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-15
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The book examines the work of Renaissance lexicographers such as John Palsgrave, Claudius Hollyband, Richard Huloet, and Peter Levins, with particular focus on the author at work: the struggles of these lexicographers to understand the semantic range of a word and to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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This book evaluates the origins of processes of change in language teaching in China, and the factors influencing their success. Examining diverse experiences and drawing on the perspectives of academics from the top institutions in the country, the authors analyse the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-08
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This edited collection brings together papers by eminent scholars who attempt to demonstrate how challenges can most successfully be ameliorated with an eye to enhancing the effectiveness of the processes of language teaching and learning. In Part One, emphasis is...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-07
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This book highlights research that expands on our knowledge of second- language collocation acquisition. It presents original findings based on the largest collocation database to date, encompassing over 8,000 collocations: verb + noun, adjective + noun, and noun +...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-04
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This book is the first volume to be devoted to the examination of the application of the multiliteracies pedagogical framework to the teaching of Spanish to heritage language learners in higher education institutions in the United States. The Hispanic population is a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-01
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The first comprehensive guide to research methods and technologies in psycholinguistics and the neurobiology of language Bringing together contributions from a distinguished group of researchers and practitioners, editors Annette M. B. de Groot and Peter Hagoort explore...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-08-30
Collection :
Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics
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The History of the English Language has been a standard university course offering for over 150 years. Yet relatively little has been written about teaching a course whose very title suggests its prodigious chronological, geographic, and disciplinary scope. In the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-29
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In Motion and the English Verb, a study of the expression of motion in medieval English, Judith Huber provides extensive inventories of verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle English, and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of early...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-28
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This book studies the Tangwang language, providing the first comprehensive grammar in English of this Chinese variety, with detailed analysis of its phonology, morphology, and syntax.This fills a gap in the literature, as previously only a few articles on this language...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-08-23
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Dieses Lexikon informiert über die Grundlagen, Konzepte und Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens fremder Sprachen. Es umfasst Begriffe aus der Sprach-, Literatur-, Kultur- sowie Mediendidaktik und ist für alle Fremdsprachen gleichermaßen relevant. Das Lexikon bietet Artikel...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-08-23
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This book analyses oral proficiency interviews, a mainstay of second language speaking proficiency assessment for several decades. Adopting a mixed-method perspective involving micro-analytic approaches, discourse analysis and quantitative methods such as multi-level...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-22
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This book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English, focusing specifically on linguistic structure. It outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, considers the changes by which one dialect of that prehistoric language developed into...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-08-15
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This book explores communication on Facebook, developing the new theoretical concept of context design as a way of understanding the dynamics of online interaction. Against a backdrop of fake news and other controversies surrounding online political debate, the authors...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-04
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This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate issues or simply discuss questions. Rhetoric is the way in which we answer questions in an interpersonal context, when we want to have an effect on those...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-08-04
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This book critically refines and adds depth to current understandings and practices in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) and EMI (English-Medium Instruction), using empirical research examining the experiences of English language learning and use of undergraduate and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-02
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