New Directions In Language Acquisition

Author : Michael Breen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317876953

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Learner Contributions to Language Learning by Michael Breen Pdf

Since it was first established in the 1970s the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language education. Drawing extensively on empirical research and theoretical work in linguistics, sociology, psychology and education, the series explores key issues in language acquisition and language use. What the learner contributes is central to the language learning process. Learner Contributions to Language Learning provides a uniquely comprehensive account of learners' personal attributes, their thinking, their feelings, and their actions that have been shown to have an impact upon language learning. Containing specific chapters from leading names in the field, this book provides both a review of what has been discovered from previous research and identifies important future directions for research on learner contributions. It is a landmark volume setting the agenda for language learning research in the 21st century and it provides invaluable information for all those engaged in language teaching. The contributors to the volume are- Michael P. Breen Bonny Norton Anna Chamot Rebecca Oxford Rod Ellis Anna Pavlenko James P. Lantolf Anita Wenden Diane Larsen-Freeman

Author : Christina Gkonou,Dietmar Tatzl,Sarah Mercer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319234915

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New Directions in Language Learning Psychology by Christina Gkonou,Dietmar Tatzl,Sarah Mercer Pdf

This book explores potential new directions in the growing field of language learning psychology. The individual chapters cover theoretical and conceptual developments and innovative methodological designs, while also exploring practical implications. Language learning psychology is a vibrant field of research that typically involves constructs from social and educational psychology, which it considers in terms of their relevance for the domain of language learning. The diverse theoretical and empirical chapters examine a range of familiar and lesser-known constructs, highlighting the importance of taking into account both learner and teacher psychologies, and recognising the complexity, dynamism and situatedness of psychological constructs, as well as the value of employing diverse research methodologies. It is hoped that these ‘new directions’ concerning populations, constructs and theoretical and methodological frameworks will pave the way for innovative future developments in this vibrant field.

Author : Laura Domíguez,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443821834

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New Directions in Language Acquisition by Laura Domíguez,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Pdf

This volume presents sixteen new articles on the acquisition of Romance languages by both well-established researchers and vital new contributors to the field. Under a generative umbrella, the articles in this collection investigate the acquisition of French, Romanian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Portuguese across different contexts including first language acquisition, bilingual acquisition, specifically impaired first language acquisition, child L2 acquisition, second language acquisition, as well as first language attrition. This volume advances our understanding of how languages are acquired and how the study of Romance languages contributes to clarifying challenging open questions on the acquisition of key functional categories and other related phenomena. In particular, the articles included assess complexity as a relevant factor shaping children’s acquisition of syntactic and phonological structures, they refine crucial theoretical constructs such as parameter setting and language transfer, and propose language change as another crucial factor affecting the process of language acquisition and attrition.

Author : Eric H. Lenneberg
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Children
ISBN : UCAL:B4346882

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New Directions in the Study of Language by Eric H. Lenneberg Pdf

Author : J. César Félix-Brasdefer,Rachel Shively
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110721874

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New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics by J. César Félix-Brasdefer,Rachel Shively Pdf

New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics brings together varying perspectives in second language (L2) pragmatics to show both historical developments in the field, while also looking towards the future, including theoretical, empirical, and implementation perspectives. This volume is divided in four sections: teaching and learning speech acts, assessing pragmatic competence, analyzing discourses in digital contexts, and current issues in L2 pragmatics. The chapters focus on various aspects related to the learning, teaching, and assessing of L2 pragmatics and cover a range of learning environments. The authors address current topics in L2 pragmatics such as: speech acts from a discursive perspective; pragmatics instruction in the foreign language classroom and during study abroad; assessment of pragmatic competence; research methods used to collect pragmatics data; pragmatics in computer-mediated contexts; the role of implicit and explicit knowledge; discourse markers as a resource for interaction; and the framework of translingual practice. Taken together, the chapters in this volume foreground innovations and new directions in the field of L2 pragmatics while, at the same time, ground their work in the existing literature. Consequently, this volume both highlights where the field of L2 pragmatics has been and offers cutting-edge insights into where it is going in the future.

Author : Pedro Guijarro Fuentes,Laura Dominguez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language acquisition
ISBN : 1443821233

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New Directions in Language Acquisition by Pedro Guijarro Fuentes,Laura Dominguez Pdf

This volume presents sixteen new articles on the acquisition of Romance languages by both well-established researchers and vital new contributors to the field. Under a generative umbrella, the articles in this collection investigate the acquisition of French, Romanian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Portuguese across different contexts including first language acquisition, bilingual acquisition, specifically impaired first language acquisition, child L2 acquisition, second language acquisition, as well as first language attrition. This volume advances our understanding of how languages are acquired and how the study of Romance languages contributes to clarifying challenging open questions on the acquisition of key functional categories and other related phenomena. In particular, the articles included assess complexity as a relevant factor shaping childrenâ (TM)s acquisition of syntactic and phonological structures, they refine crucial theoretical constructs such as parameter setting and language transfer, and propose language change as another crucial factor affecting the process of language acquisition and attrition.

Author : Michael Perkins,Sara Howard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461541578

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New Directions In Language Development And Disorders by Michael Perkins,Sara Howard Pdf

Research into child language development is being conducted more extensively, by more people, and in more countries throughout the world than at any point in the past. We now know more than we ever did before about the linguistic, cognitive, neurobio logical, and social capacities that children bring to their language learning task, as well as the ways in which these capacities interact with a whole range of factors present in the child's environment throughout the learning process, not least the particular character istics of the language or languages to which the child is exposed. Far from inducing a sense of complacency, this new knowledge seems instead to create an even stronger impetus to know more. This is partly because of the new and unforeseen questions it raises and partly because of competition between different theories to provide the best explanation of the phenomenon, and which in turn engender different methods of enquiry. This volume addresses many of the key issues which are currently exercising the minds of child language researchers, and which are likely to motivate research for some years to come. The chapters included here-all previously unpublished-present a great deal of new data and address a range of theoretical issues from a variety of perspectives.

Author : João Costa,Alexandra Fiéis,Maria João Freitas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443870276

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New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages by João Costa,Alexandra Fiéis,Maria João Freitas Pdf

This book puts together a selection of papers presented at The Romance Turn V Workshop, held in Lisbon in 2012. The papers presented at the workshop discussed general problems in the field of Language Acquisition, with a special focus on data from several Romance varieties. The papers in the volume cover a wide array of topics and subfields of acquisition studies, including L1 and L2 acquisition, typical and atypical development, acquisition of syntax, semantics, and phonology.

Author : Nike Arnold,Zsuzsan I. Abrams,Nathan T. Carr,Dorothy M. Chun,Idoia Elola,Lee Forester,Senta Goertler,Sarah Guth,Francesca Helm,Christopher Holden,Philip Hubbard,Lara Lomicka,Gillian Lord,Mary Grantham O'Brien,Ana Oskoz,Jonathon Reinhardt,Richard Robin,Julie Sykes,Steven Thorne,Bonnie Youngs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989120872

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Present and Future Promises of CALL by Nike Arnold,Zsuzsan I. Abrams,Nathan T. Carr,Dorothy M. Chun,Idoia Elola,Lee Forester,Senta Goertler,Sarah Guth,Francesca Helm,Christopher Holden,Philip Hubbard,Lara Lomicka,Gillian Lord,Mary Grantham O'Brien,Ana Oskoz,Jonathon Reinhardt,Richard Robin,Julie Sykes,Steven Thorne,Bonnie Youngs Pdf

In the five years since the first edition, the field of CALL has advanced and new technologies now offer even more opportunities for language educators and students, and researchers have expanded our understanding of what it means to teach and learn with technology. This updated edition is revised both in terms of organization and content. There are chapters centered around the ACTFL Standards' 5 Cs, and also updated chapters on original topics such as an overview of technology and CALL, the connection between CALL and theories of second language acquisition and pedagogy, courseware evaluation, assessment, and pronunciation.

Author : Gary Morgan,Bencie Woll
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027234728

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Directions in Sign Language Acquisition by Gary Morgan,Bencie Woll Pdf

This is the second volume in the series 'Trends in language acquisition research'. The unusual combination in one volume of reports on various different sign languages in acquisition makes this book quite unique.

Author : Dr. Shikha Agrawal ,Dr. Geetika Patni
Publisher : Shanlax Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789391373054

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NEW DIRECTIONS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING : ISSUES, PRACTICES, CHALLENGES by Dr. Shikha Agrawal ,Dr. Geetika Patni Pdf

New Directions in English Language Teaching: Issues,Practices, Challenges attempts to create a comprehensive vision of critical and culturally relevant English teaching methodologies at the cusp of the 21st century. The present book is multi-voiced. It includes perspectives from classroom teachers, teacher educators and researchers in language and literacy, positioned to respond to recent changes in national conversations about literacy, learning and assessment. These vividly situated authors also recognise the rapidly changing demographics in colleges, the changing nature of teaching English in the digital age, and increasing demands for teaching pedagogies. This book is critically placed at the juncture of numerous directions in novel techniques. At all times, education is a political act, and colleges are embedded with a socio-culture reality that benefits some at the expense of others. Therefore the approach advocated through many of the chapters is one of critical literacy where English students gain reading and writing skills and proficiency with digital technologies that allow them to become more able, discerning, and empowered consumers and producers of texts.

Author : Brian Shulman,Nina Capone
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780763747237

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Language Development by Brian Shulman,Nina Capone Pdf

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Author : Eric H. Lenneberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:912013155

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New Directions in the Study of Language by Eric H. Lenneberg Pdf

Author : James Corbet,Roumyana Slabakova,Laura Domíguez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527530829

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Explorations in Second Language Acquisition and Processing by James Corbet,Roumyana Slabakova,Laura Domíguez Pdf

This book presents cutting-edge research on the nature of grammatical systems developed by bilinguals and second language learners, as well as how speakers put these grammatical systems to use in processing language. The chapters provide a stimulating mix of theoretical contributions and experimental designs addressing a variety of research questions, such as learnability and access to Universal Grammar, native language influence, variability, and what propels language development from one stage to the next. Bilingual development is a special highlight here. The linguistic domains investigated are also extremely diverse, and include morphology, syntax, and language processing, as well as the interfaces between syntax and semantics and between syntax and discourse. The book covers the acquisition of an impressive number of languages including Arabic, Croatian, Chinese, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish as first or second languages. Through these diverse contributions, the reader will be able to identify and follow important new directions in which generative language acquisition is developing and expanding.

Author : Lourdes Ortega
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444117059

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Understanding Second Language Acquisition by Lourdes Ortega Pdf

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theories, its developed research paradigms, and its pending questions for the future. The book zooms in and out of universal, individual, and social forces, in each case evaluating the research findings that have been generated across diverse naturalistic and formal contexts for second language acquisition. It assumes no background in SLA and provides helpful chapter-by-chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading. Ideal as a textbook for students of applied linguistics, foreign language education, TESOL, and education, it is also recommended for students of linguistics, developmental psycholinguistics, psychology, and cognitive science. Supporting resources for tutors are available free at www.routledge.com/ortega.