Foreign Language And Mother Tongue

Author : Istvan Kecskes,T nde Papp
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135682729

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Foreign Language and Mother Tongue by Istvan Kecskes,T nde Papp Pdf

This is the first book that discusses the effect of foreign language learning on first language processing. The authors argue that multilingual development is a dynamic and cumulative process characterized by transfer of different nature, and results in a common underlying conceptual base with two or more language channels that constantly interact with each other. Language representation and processing are discussed from a cognitive-pragmatic rather than a lexical-syntactic perspective. This required the review of several crucial issues of L2 acquisition, such as transfer, vocabulary development, conceptual fluency, and pragmatic skills. The authors also reviewed a large body of literature touching on cognitive psychology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, SLA, philosophy, and education in order to explain multilingual development and the positive effect of foreign language learning on the first language. An important read for linguists and language educators alike, this volume: * attempts to explain multilingual development from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective, * argues that foreign language learning has a positive effect on the development and use of mother tongue skills, * relies on research findings of several different disciplines, * builds on the results of quantitative research conducted by the authors, and touches on a wide range of literature.

Author : Istvan Kecskes,T nde Papp
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135682736

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Foreign Language and Mother Tongue by Istvan Kecskes,T nde Papp Pdf

This is the first book that discusses the effect of foreign language learning on first language processing. The authors argue that multilingual development is a dynamic and cumulative process characterized by transfer of different nature, and results in a common underlying conceptual base with two or more language channels that constantly interact with each other. Language representation and processing are discussed from a cognitive-pragmatic rather than a lexical-syntactic perspective. This required the review of several crucial issues of L2 acquisition, such as transfer, vocabulary development, conceptual fluency, and pragmatic skills. The authors also reviewed a large body of literature touching on cognitive psychology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, SLA, philosophy, and education in order to explain multilingual development and the positive effect of foreign language learning on the first language. An important read for linguists and language educators alike, this volume: * attempts to explain multilingual development from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective, * argues that foreign language learning has a positive effect on the development and use of mother tongue skills, * relies on research findings of several different disciplines, * builds on the results of quantitative research conducted by the authors, and touches on a wide range of literature.

Author : Moustapha Fall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000030785

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The Impact of Mother Tongue Illiteracy on Second Language Acquisition by Moustapha Fall Pdf

This text illustrates the crucial role of the mother tongue literacy in second language acquisition by presenting findings from a comparative study conducted in primary schools in Senegal. In addition, the volume provides an in-depth look at the linguistic history of Senegal before, during, and after French colonialism. The Impact of Mother Tongue Illiteracy on Second Language Acquisition discusses the socio-linguistic landscape and ethnolinguistic composition of Senegal and its effect on the second language acquisition. An in-depth analysis of children’s phonological awareness, decoding, and reading comprehension in French reveals significant disparities in the literacy skills of Wolof children who have been exposed to Arabic and Qur’anic texts prior to schooling, and those who have not. In doing so, the text explores the impacts of post-colonial language policies in Africa, highlights the pedagogical consequences of mother tongue illiteracy, and questions the use of French as the only language of instruction in Senegalese schools. This detailed research text will of great interest and use to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics, professionals and policy makers in the field of Second Language Acquisition, Multicultural Education, Applied Linguistics, French language education and, Language Policy and Planning.

Author : Witold Tulasiewicz,Anthony Adams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847143457

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Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe by Witold Tulasiewicz,Anthony Adams Pdf

In a time when the increasing cultural diversity and population mobility of the continent calls for good communication skills, this fascinating book features a wealth of data and critical opinion on the topic of mother tongue education.In the first part of the book, the two editors address central cultural, political and educational concerns relating to the mother tongue, using some of the findings of their European Commission funded research on the changing European classroom. The second part presents case study articles by practitioners from nine countries which have significant regional or immigrant mother tongue populations. These include Welsh in Wales, Catalan and Galician in Spain, Turkish and Greek in Germany, Arabic and Corsican in France, and Belorussian in Poland, as well as critical accounts of the main first language situation in England, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, post-Soviet Russia, and Spain. The concluding part of the book looks at language awareness as a possible approach to linguistic diversity. It examines the preparation of teachers at all levels, as experinced by the editors through their involvement in an in international language study group based in Calgary, Cambridge, Mainz and Bialystock.Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe is packed with original information which will be of use to all teachers and educationalists concerned with language.

Author : Yasemin Yildiz
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780823241309

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Beyond the Mother Tongue by Yasemin Yildiz Pdf

Monolingualism-the idea that having just one language is the norm is only a recent invention, dating to late-eighteenth-century Europe. Yet it has become a dominant, if overlooked, structuring principle of modernity. According to this monolingual paradigm, individuals are imagined to be able to think and feel properly only in one language, while multiple languages are seen as a threat to the cohesion of individuals and communities, institutions and disciplines. As a result of this view, writing in anything but one's "mother tongue" has come to be seen as an aberration.

Author : BethAnne Paulsrud,Jenny Rosén,Boglárka Straszer,Åsa Wedin
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783097838

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New Perspectives on Translanguaging and Education by BethAnne Paulsrud,Jenny Rosén,Boglárka Straszer,Åsa Wedin Pdf

This edited collection explores the immense potential of translanguaging in educational settings and highlights teachers and students negotiating language ideologies in their everyday communicative practices. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship on translanguaging and considers the need for pedagogy to reflect and embrace diversity. The chapters provide rich empirical research and document translanguaging in varied educational contexts, with studies from pre-school to adult education in different, mainly European, countries, where English is not the dominant language. Together they expand our understanding of translanguaging and how it can be applied to a variety of settings. This book will be of interest to students and researchers, especially in education, language education and applied linguistics, as well as to professionals and policymakers.

Author : Satīnātha Bhāduṛī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Bengali fiction
ISBN : MINN:31951D03644192I

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Dhorai Charit Manas by Satīnātha Bhāduṛī Pdf

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780062417442

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The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson Pdf

“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can’t), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world’s largest growth industries.

Author : Lisa Mitchell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253353016

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Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India by Lisa Mitchell Pdf

The charged emotional politics of language and identity in India

Author : Monika S. Schmid
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902724135X

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First Language Attrition, Use and Maintenance by Monika S. Schmid Pdf

Accompanying CD, also called a CD-ROM by publisher, contains ... "excerpts from more than twenty of the interviews analyzed." -- p. [4] of cover.

Author : Philip Lieberman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674040229

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Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain by Philip Lieberman Pdf

This book is an entry into the fierce current debate among psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary theorists about the nature and origins of human language. A prominent neuroscientist here takes up the Darwinian case, using data seldom considered by psycholinguists and neurolinguists to argue that human language--though more sophisticated than all other forms of animal communication--is not a qualitatively different ability from all forms of animal communication, does not require a quantum evolutionary leap to explain it, and is not unified in a single language instinct. Using clinical evidence from speech-impaired patients, functional neuroimaging, and evolutionary biology to make his case, Philip Lieberman contends that human language is not a single separate module but a functional neurological system made up of many separate abilities. Language remains as it began, Lieberman argues: a device for coping with the world. But in a blow to human narcissism, he makes the case that this most remarkable human ability is a by-product of our remote reptilian ancestors' abilities to dodge hazards, seize opportunities, and live to see another day.

Author : Anja Hilsenbeck
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783640895304

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Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching and Students' Use of the Mother Tongue by Anja Hilsenbeck Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, University of Bamberg (Lehrstuhl für Didaktik der englischen Sprache und Literatur), course: Task based language learning and teaching, language: English, abstract: Although it is undisputable that task-based language learning and teaching seems to be an interesting and varied methodology regarding language classrooms, there may arise some difficulties when trying to implement this approach. One of the most challenging issues within task-based approaches is considered to be the students’ use of the mother tongue. This term paper aims to examine how to deal with mother tongue use in a task-based classroom, how to encourage target language use and finally, how mother tongue use is compatible with task-based approaches

Author : Witold Tulasiewicz,Anthony Adams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847143457

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Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe by Witold Tulasiewicz,Anthony Adams Pdf

In a time when the increasing cultural diversity and population mobility of the continent calls for good communication skills, this fascinating book features a wealth of data and critical opinion on the topic of mother tongue education.In the first part of the book, the two editors address central cultural, political and educational concerns relating to the mother tongue, using some of the findings of their European Commission funded research on the changing European classroom. The second part presents case study articles by practitioners from nine countries which have significant regional or immigrant mother tongue populations. These include Welsh in Wales, Catalan and Galician in Spain, Turkish and Greek in Germany, Arabic and Corsican in France, and Belorussian in Poland, as well as critical accounts of the main first language situation in England, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, post-Soviet Russia, and Spain. The concluding part of the book looks at language awareness as a possible approach to linguistic diversity. It examines the preparation of teachers at all levels, as experinced by the editors through their involvement in an in international language study group based in Calgary, Cambridge, Mainz and Bialystock.Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe is packed with original information which will be of use to all teachers and educationalists concerned with language.

Author : Otto Jespersen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547038658

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How to Teach a Foreign Language by Otto Jespersen Pdf

Written by the famous Danish linguist Otto Jespersen, this work has proved to be a valuable contribution to the English language and Linguistics. He presented theoretical considerations of language teaching in this book. As a professor of English at Copenhagen, he led a campaign for basing foreign-language teaching on the use of conversational speech rather than on the textbook study of grammar and vocabulary. He wrote several textbooks used in Denmark and other countries for English teaching. The modern techniques suggested by Jespersen make this work on didactics and pedagogy relevant even today for English teaching.

Author : Christine Gilbert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698193925

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Mother Tongue by Christine Gilbert Pdf

One woman’s quest to learn Mandarin in Beijing, Arabic in Beirut, and Spanish in Mexico, with her young family along for the ride. Imagine negotiating for a replacement carburetor in rural Mexico with words you’re secretly pulling from a pocket dictionary. Imagine your two-year-old asking for more niunai at dinner—a Mandarin word for milk that even you don’t know yet. Imagine finding out that you’re unexpectedly pregnant while living in war-torn Beirut. With vivid and evocative language, Christine Gilbert takes us along with her into foreign lands, showing us what it’s like to make a life in an unfamiliar world—and in an unfamiliar tongue. Gilbert was a young mother when she boldly uprooted her family to move around the world, studying Mandarin in China, Arabic in Lebanon, and Spanish in Mexico, with her toddler son and all-American husband along for the ride.Their story takes us from Beijing to Beirut, from Cyprus to Chiang Mai—and also explores recent breakthroughs in bilingual brain mapping and the controversial debates happening in linguistics right now. Gilbert’s adventures abroad prove just how much language influences culture (and vice versa), and lead her to results she never expected. Mother Tongue is a fascinating and uplifting story about taking big risks for bigger rewards and trying to find meaning and happiness through tireless pursuit—no matter what hurdles may arise. It’s a treat for language enthusiasts and armchair travelers alike.