Using The Mother Tongue

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Sara Greaves,Monique De Mattia-Viviès
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781316516416

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Language Learning and the Mother Tongue by Sara Greaves,Monique De Mattia-Viviès Pdf

Drawing on research by French authors, this book introduces a major new concept, the (M)other tongue, and shows its relevance to language learning and pediatrics in a multicultural society. It is for students and lecturers in languages, linguistics, translation studies and education, and for child psychologists, psychiatrists and speech therapists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:604313784

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Libri quarto e quinto [degli amori] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780374720858

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Mother Tongue by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi Pdf

A probing and poetic examination of language, food, faith, and family attachment in Italian life through the eyes of an American who moved to Parma with her husband and family. In the 1980s, the American writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi moved permanently with her Italian husband and her daughter to Parma, a sophisticated city in northern Italy, where he became a professor of biology. Her search for rootedness in the city that was to be her home introduced her to complexities in her identity as she migrated into another language and looked for links beyond the joys of Verdi, Correggio, and Parmesan cheese, which visitors have rightly extolled for centuries. The local resistance to change perceived as individualistic led Wilde-Menozzi to explore the pull and challenge of difference and discover the backbone she needed for artistic freedom. In Mother Tongue, Wilde-Menozzi offers stories of far-sighted lives, remarkable Parma men and remarkable women, including the Renaissance abbess Giovanna Piacenza, the fighting Donella Rossi Sanvitale, and her own indefatigable mother-in-law. Framed with a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Patricia Hampl, this classic on diversity and tolerance, family, faith, and food in Italy and the United States is at once timeless and timely, a “large, beautiful window into the intelligent, literate, reflective life of Italy” (Shirley Hazzard).

Author : Istvan Kecskes,T nde Papp
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Deller & Rinvolucri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8130902885

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Using The Mother Tongue by Deller & Rinvolucri Pdf

Author : BethAnne Paulsrud,Jenny Rosén,Boglárka Straszer,Åsa Wedin
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Sheelagh Deller,Mario Rinvolucri
Publisher : Delta
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Anadil
ISBN : 0954198611

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Using the Mother Tongue by Sheelagh Deller,Mario Rinvolucri Pdf

Author : Witold Tulasiewicz,Anthony Adams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Moustapha Fall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Joel Davis
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:49015002076710

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Mother Tongue by Joel Davis Pdf

The author "presents the latest and most controversial research from the origins of language itself to the way the human brain makes and stores it, as well as how infants create it."--Jacket.

Author : Sarah Louise Arnold,George Lyman Kittredge,John William Adamson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022815261

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The Mother Tongue by Sarah Louise Arnold,George Lyman Kittredge,John William Adamson Pdf

Unlock the secrets of the English language with this essential guide to grammar and vocabulary, perfect for students and language enthusiasts alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Nancy Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1591280168

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Our Mother Tongue by Nancy Wilson Pdf

A lesson-by-lesson answer key for all chapters of the text Our Mother Tongue.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : MAD-Eduforma
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788466562546

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Cuerpo de Maestros. Programación Didáctica. Inglés.e-book. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004507609

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Transforming Learning and Teaching by Anonim Pdf

This book consists of 19 chapters on heuristics – reflexive tools, designed to heighten awareness of actions and catalyze desired changes. Thirty-three heuristics address six foci: teaching and learning, learning to teach, emotions, wellness, contemplative activities, and harmony.