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Research writing and teaching is a great challenge for novice scholars, especially L2 writers. This book presents a compelling and much-needed automated writing evaluation (AWE) reinforcement to L2 research writing pedagogy.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-02
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With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, this book explores some of the issues affecting authors on the semiperiphery, who often find themselves torn between conflicting academic cultures and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-02
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This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used by states and governments as instruments of control, assimilation and empowerment. Leading scholars have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-02
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This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model theoretic semantics, and develops an explicit fragment of both the syntax and semantics of a rich portion of English.
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OUP Oxford
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2014-08-29
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This book adopts a generative framework to investigate the diachronic syntax of Hungarian, one of only a handful of non-Indo-European languages with a documented history spanning more than 800 years. Professor É. Kiss and several internationally recognized experts in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-08-28
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This book is a point of reference for EAP professionals planning to conduct or commission research into learning, teaching, professional development or quality assurance in EAP. It draws on academic and professional debates to inspire further research and practical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-26
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Making New Words provides a detailed study of the 200 or so prefixes and suffixes which create new words in today's English. Alongside a systematic discussion of these forms, Professor Dixon explores and explains the hundreds of conundrums that seem to be exceptions to...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-08-22
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This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-)occurrence of null pronominal subjects and objects. Although previous studies have looked at the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-08-21
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This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years. Leading theorists in the field offer an up-to-date presentation of the subject in a way that will help readers to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-17
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Complete Finnish is a comprehensive language course that takes you from beginner to intermediate level.The new edition of this successful course has been fully revised and is packed with new learning features to give you the language, practice and skills to communicate...
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Teach Yourself
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2014-08-15
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The book focuses on the part of the audio conversation not related to language such as speaking rate (in terms of number of syllables per unit time) and emotion centric features. This text examines using non-linguistics features to infer information from phone calls to...
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Springer
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2014-08-02
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This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully. Combines a survey of theory and research in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) with insights...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-07-31
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This book examines the historical development of discourse and pragmatic markers across the Romance languages. These markers serve to indicate the organization of the discourse, the speaker's relationship with the interlocutor, and the speaker's stance with regard to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-07-31
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„Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften“ zeigt die ambivalenten Bezüge Musils zur Moderne des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts auf und schließt daraus auf sein Lebenswerk, den „Mann ohne Eigenschaften“. Dabei soll auf den Wiener Kreis und seine erkenntnistheoretischen Debatten im Rahmen...
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Springer
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2014-07-30
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The studies in this volume investigate how multilingual education involves a critical engagement with questions of identity and culture, and a movement towards new ways of being and belonging. It addresses previously under-explored issues, in particular the integration...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-07-24
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In this book, leading scholars consider the ways in which syntactic variation can be accounted for in a minimalist framework. They explore the theoretical significance, content, and role of parameters; whether or not variation should be strongly or weakly accounted for...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-07-24
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This book examines personal names, including given and acquired (or nick-) names, and how they were used in Anglo-Saxon England. It discusses their etymologies, semantics, and grammatical behaviour, and considers their evolving place in Anglo-Saxon history and culture....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-07-24
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This book explores the use of mobile devices for teaching and learning language and literacies, investigating the ways in which these technologies open up new educational possibilities. Pegrum builds up a rich picture of contemporary mobile learning and outlines of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-23
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Utilising a wide range of theoretical traditions from philosophy, sociology and anthropology, this book aims to raise the reader's awareness of the power as well as the limitations of language in relation to special education.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-12
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The present volume assembles a relevant set of studies of argument by analogy, which address this topic in a systematic fashion, either from an essentially theoretical perspective or from the perspective of it being applied to different fields like politics,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-09
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