Author: Li Yuming
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501500392
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Written by a leading scholar who has been closely involved in language planning in China over many decades, this collection of essays is a critical reflection of the work the Chinese government and academics have undertaken in establishing appropriate policies regarding language standard, language use and language education. The essays contain unique insights into the thinking behind much of the language planning work in China today.
Field Language
Author: Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780911209747
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"A collection of essays and images exploring the painting and poetry of artists Warren and Jane Rohrer of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Invites readers to consider relationships between global art movements and local visual cultures"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780911209747
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"A collection of essays and images exploring the painting and poetry of artists Warren and Jane Rohrer of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Invites readers to consider relationships between global art movements and local visual cultures"--
Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States
Author: Sara M. Beaudrie
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1589019393
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
There is growing interest in heritage language learners—individuals who have a personal or familial connection to a nonmajority language. Spanish learners represent the largest segment of this population in the United States. In this comprehensive volume, experts offer an interdisciplinary overview of research on Spanish as a heritage language in the United States. They also address the central role of education within the field. Contributors offer a wealth of resources for teachers while proposing future directions for scholarship.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1589019393
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
There is growing interest in heritage language learners—individuals who have a personal or familial connection to a nonmajority language. Spanish learners represent the largest segment of this population in the United States. In this comprehensive volume, experts offer an interdisciplinary overview of research on Spanish as a heritage language in the United States. They also address the central role of education within the field. Contributors offer a wealth of resources for teachers while proposing future directions for scholarship.
Language Learner's Field Guide
Author: Alan Healey
Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications
ISBN: 9780726303562
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications
ISBN: 9780726303562
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Language Planning in China
Author: Li Yuming
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501500392
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Written by a leading scholar who has been closely involved in language planning in China over many decades, this collection of essays is a critical reflection of the work the Chinese government and academics have undertaken in establishing appropriate policies regarding language standard, language use and language education. The essays contain unique insights into the thinking behind much of the language planning work in China today.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501500392
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Written by a leading scholar who has been closely involved in language planning in China over many decades, this collection of essays is a critical reflection of the work the Chinese government and academics have undertaken in establishing appropriate policies regarding language standard, language use and language education. The essays contain unique insights into the thinking behind much of the language planning work in China today.
Listening in the Language Classroom
Author: John Field
Publisher: Cambridge Language Teaching Library
ISBN: 9780521685702
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This book challenges the orthodox approach to the teaching of second language listening, which is based upon the asking and answering of comprehension questions. The book's central argument is that a preoccupation with the notion of 'comprehension' has led teachers to focus upon the product of listening, in the form of answers to questions, ignoring the listening process itself. The author provides an informed account of the psychological processes which make up the skill of listening, and analyses the characteristics of the speech signal from which listeners have to construct a message. Drawing upon this information, the book proposes a radical alternative to the comprehension approach and provides for intensive small-scale practice in aspects of listening that are perceptually or cognitively demanding for the learner. Listening in the Language Classroom was winner of the Ben Warren International Trust House Prize in 2008.
Publisher: Cambridge Language Teaching Library
ISBN: 9780521685702
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This book challenges the orthodox approach to the teaching of second language listening, which is based upon the asking and answering of comprehension questions. The book's central argument is that a preoccupation with the notion of 'comprehension' has led teachers to focus upon the product of listening, in the form of answers to questions, ignoring the listening process itself. The author provides an informed account of the psychological processes which make up the skill of listening, and analyses the characteristics of the speech signal from which listeners have to construct a message. Drawing upon this information, the book proposes a radical alternative to the comprehension approach and provides for intensive small-scale practice in aspects of listening that are perceptually or cognitively demanding for the learner. Listening in the Language Classroom was winner of the Ben Warren International Trust House Prize in 2008.
Rethinking the Second Language Listening Test
Author: John Field
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN: 9781781797150
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Testing second language listening proficiency validly and reliably has always posed a challenge. In the days before the widespread availability of recorded material, tests were reliant upon the voice of the examiner. Each test administration was a unique phonetic event, with enormous variations of delivery between examiners and even within the performance of a single examiner on different occasions. The presentation was read-aloud, and the texts chosen were often those that had been written to be read (including literary extracts). The resulting input to test takers bore little resemblance to natural connected speech.
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN: 9781781797150
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Testing second language listening proficiency validly and reliably has always posed a challenge. In the days before the widespread availability of recorded material, tests were reliant upon the voice of the examiner. Each test administration was a unique phonetic event, with enormous variations of delivery between examiners and even within the performance of a single examiner on different occasions. The presentation was read-aloud, and the texts chosen were often those that had been written to be read (including literary extracts). The resulting input to test takers bore little resemblance to natural connected speech.
Systemic Functional Language Description
Author: J.R. Martin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351184520
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This volume showcases previously unpublished research on theoretical, descriptive, and methodological innovations for understanding language patterns grounded in a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective. Featuring contributions from an international range of scholars, the book demonstrates how advances in SFL have developed to reflect the breadth of variation in language and how descriptive methodologies for language have evolved in turn. Taken together, the volume offers a comprehensive account of Systemic Functional Language description, providing a foundation for practice and further research for students and scholars in descriptive linguistics, SFL, and theoretical linguistics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351184520
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This volume showcases previously unpublished research on theoretical, descriptive, and methodological innovations for understanding language patterns grounded in a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective. Featuring contributions from an international range of scholars, the book demonstrates how advances in SFL have developed to reflect the breadth of variation in language and how descriptive methodologies for language have evolved in turn. Taken together, the volume offers a comprehensive account of Systemic Functional Language description, providing a foundation for practice and further research for students and scholars in descriptive linguistics, SFL, and theoretical linguistics.
Language Acquisition Made Practical
Author: Tom Brewster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
It can be done! You can successfully learn a new language if three conditions are met: 1. You live where the new language is spoken. 2. You are motivated to learn the new language. 3. You know how to proceed with language learning, step-by-step and day-by-day. This manual assumes that the first and second conditions are met. It is a simple guide planned to help you, the learner, proceed without boredom or frustration, through manageable steps, so that you can become proficient in your new language. The objective of this manual is to help guide you in your daily activities of language learning. - Preface.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
It can be done! You can successfully learn a new language if three conditions are met: 1. You live where the new language is spoken. 2. You are motivated to learn the new language. 3. You know how to proceed with language learning, step-by-step and day-by-day. This manual assumes that the first and second conditions are met. It is a simple guide planned to help you, the learner, proceed without boredom or frustration, through manageable steps, so that you can become proficient in your new language. The objective of this manual is to help guide you in your daily activities of language learning. - Preface.
Language and the Brain
Author: Loraine K. Obler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466417
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An introduction to neurolinguistics showing how language is organized in the brain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466417
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An introduction to neurolinguistics showing how language is organized in the brain.
Responses to Language Endangerment
Author: Elena Mihas
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027271151
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This volume further complicates and advances the contemporary perspective on language endangerment by examining the outcomes of the most commonly cited responses to language endangerment, i.e. language documentation, language revitalization, and training. The present collection takes stock of many complex and pressing issues, such as the assessment of the degree of language endangerment, the contribution of linguistic scholarship to language revitalization programs, the creation of successful language reclamation programs, the emergence of languages that arise as a result of revitalization efforts after interrupted transmission, the ethics of fieldwork, and the training of field linguists and language educators. The volume’s case studies provide detailed personal accounts of fieldworkers and language activists who are grappling with issues of language documentation and revitalization in the concrete physical and socio-cultural settings of native speaker communities in different regions of the world.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027271151
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This volume further complicates and advances the contemporary perspective on language endangerment by examining the outcomes of the most commonly cited responses to language endangerment, i.e. language documentation, language revitalization, and training. The present collection takes stock of many complex and pressing issues, such as the assessment of the degree of language endangerment, the contribution of linguistic scholarship to language revitalization programs, the creation of successful language reclamation programs, the emergence of languages that arise as a result of revitalization efforts after interrupted transmission, the ethics of fieldwork, and the training of field linguists and language educators. The volume’s case studies provide detailed personal accounts of fieldworkers and language activists who are grappling with issues of language documentation and revitalization in the concrete physical and socio-cultural settings of native speaker communities in different regions of the world.