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Trade schools, universities, and programs for international students have begun to experiment with Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) as a viable pedagogy for instruction, as the pedagogy of CLIL increasingly gains recognition as a practical form of...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-11-04
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In 2009, on the outskirts of the southern metropolis of Guangzhou, Xian villagers secretly prepared for the Dragon Boat Festival. For them, the commemoration of the 221 BC poet Qu Yuan, who threw himself into a river to protest official corruption, held particular...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2015-11-03
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The great linguistic diversity of spoken languages contrasts greatly with the much smaller number of languages used in written discourse. Many linguistic varieties – in particular, regional and minority languages – are not deemed suitable for writing because they do not...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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The strikingly unrestricted syntactic distribution of nouns in many Bantu languages often leads to proposals that syntactic case does not play an active role in the grammar of Bantu. This book offers a different conclusion that the basis of Zulu that Bantu languages...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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The emergence of digital technologies in the realm of archives has enlivened our understandings of archival materialities and lent a new intensity to our engagements with the archived page by prompting us to consider the potential of paper and the page in ways that we...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-10-31
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This book traces the origins of modern varieties of Yiddish and presents evidence for the claim that, contrary to most accounts, Yiddish only developed into a separate language in the 15th century. Through a careful analysis of Yiddish phonology, morphology,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-30
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Based on an eight-year study of a family on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, this book explores why the children in the family do not often speak Gaelic, despite the adults' best efforts to use the language with them, as well as the children's attendance at a Gaelic...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-10-29
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This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. While a sentence obeys specific grammatical rules, the coherence of a discourse is instead dependent on the relations between the sentences it contains. In this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-29
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This is the first volume of a book series dedicated to "Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication". Fighting plagiarism is a the top priority for STM publishing. A practical guide will importantly contribute to the...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-28
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This edited volume makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning research field of English as a lingua franca. In a pioneering step, the collection is exclusively devoted to the English email discourse of Chinese speakers. The studies address innovative topics related...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-24
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Scotland’s efforts to establish and assert its distinct national identity have a long tradition. National identity has been a central theme throughout the centuries in a country where economic, political, and social issues have tended to be closely bound up with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-23
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The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. Now accompanied by a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-10-19
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Language in Society
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This collection investigates the publics of the hashtag. Taking cues from critical public sphere theory, contributors are interested in publics that break beyond the mainstream – in other publics. They are interested in the kinds of publics that do politics in a way...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-10-09
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Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues offers a holistic look atBlack culture in the twenty-first century. It is a collection of work that creates a synergy among authors and leads to a valuable resource on contemporary issues. Part One examines...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-10-09
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This original volume examines the interface between attentional and linguistic processes in humans from the perspectives of psycholinguistics and cognitive science. It systematically explores how autonomy and automaticity are reflected during language processing in a...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-09
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This book updates the latest research in the field of 'English pronunciation', providing readers with a number of original contributions that represent trends in the field. Topics include sociophonetic or sound-symbolic aspects of pronunciation English pronunciation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-08
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The ultimate guide for developing your career as an English teacher.Succeed in TEFL is packed with information on how to develop within the profession including chapters on:-getting the most out of observations-teaching exam classes-becoming a trainer -doing action...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2015-10-08
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New speakers are an increasingly important aspect of the revitalization of minority languages since, in some cases, they can make up the majority of the language community in question. This volume examines this phenomenon from the viewpoint of three minority languages:...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-05
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This book seeks to help teachers teach listening in a more principled way by presenting what is known from research, exploring teachers' beliefs and practices, examining textbook materials, and offering practical activities for improving second language listening.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-05
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The volume is a practical introduction to the ways in which the teachers deal with classroom events in the context of change for researchers, teachers, administrators who wish to implement curriculum reform to EFL in schools.The author provides insights into the beliefs...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-10-05
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