Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)

Chapter A: Non-Predicative Adjectives

by Chu-Ren, Huang, Shu-Kai, Hsieh, Keh-Jiann, Chen

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This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech. The original books were published as two pioneering technical reports by Chinese Knowledge and Information Processing group (CKIP) at Academia Sinica in 19…

Chapter C: Conjunction

by Chu-Ren, Huang, Shu-Kai, Hsieh, Keh-Jiann, Chen

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This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech. The original books were published as two pioneering technical reports by Chinese Knowledge and Information Processing group (CKIP) at Academia Sinica in 19…

Resistance to the known: counter-conduct in language education

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This volume stands as a demonstration of resistance to 'the known' (i.e. the tyranny of the expected) through individual and collective counter-conduct within the domain of language education. Supported by data drawn from various local and national contexts, the professional exp…

Innovation in Language Teaching and Learning: the Case of Japan

fromNew language learning and teaching environments

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This book examines a wide range of innovations in language learning and teaching in Japan. Each of the chapters describes the impetus for a change or new development in a particular context, from early childhood to adult learning, details its implementation and provides an evalu…

A theoretical framework for language education and teaching

by Balboni, Paolo Ernesto

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Educational linguistics is transcultural, with research in the field adopting an international scope. Educational systems, on the contrary, are culture-bound. As a consequence, actual teaching differs across countries, and sometimes even among provinces, local educational author…

Personality and emotional intelligence in second language learning

by Ozanska-Ponikwia, Katarzyna

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This book addresses a particularly important area of second language acquisition research, specifically the factors that mediate learning outcomes in learning a second or foreign language. It provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of studies in the field of second languag…

Cultural Diversity in Cross-Cultural Settings: a global approach

by Mammadova, Tamilla

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The 21st century is marked by the intensive movement of people across international borders. While languages are used as a means of interaction across the globe, the nuances of communication vary from culture to culture. This book explores how the misperception of cultural value…

Consequential Validity of the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK): from Macro and Micro Perspectives

by Wang, Shujiao

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This comprehensive study investigates the consequential validity of the central Chinese Proficiency Test- HSK from micro- (classroom) to macro- (society) perspectives. It advances the scope of validity studies and addresses pedagogical and methodological issues in Chinese as a S…

Testing academic language proficiency

by Mezzadri, Marco

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This book focuses on the development of the process of teaching and assessing foreign language competence for study purposes in a pluricultural and plurilingual context. It addresses not only the individual who is learning the language for academic purposes (LAP), but also other…

An interactive approach to enhancing early word learning: from research to best practice

by Gogate, Lakshmi

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A wealth of research on child language has unearthed many novel strategies that parents and interventionists can utilise to enhance word learning prior to infants producing their first words. These developmentally-appropriate strategies are published in scientific journals, howe…

Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction, Administration, and Processing

by Dewaele, Jean-Marc, Doernyei, Zoltan

fromSecond language acquisition research series

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This new edition is thoroughly updated to reflect developments in the field and with recent example studies that focus on considerations, challenges, and opportunities raised at all stages of the research process by online questionnaires. There is also expanded, detailed guidanc…

Syntax of Hungarian: Coordination and Ellipsis

fromComprehensive grammar resources

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Syntax of Hungarian aims to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language, rooted in theory but providing highly detailed descriptions, and intended to be of use to researchers, as well as advanced students of language and linguisti…

Cognate vocabulary in language acquisition and use: attitudes, awareness, activation

by Otwinowska, Agnieszka

fromSecond Language Acquisition

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This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It presents a large-scale, long-term research project focusing on Polish-English cognates and their use by bilingual and multilingual lea…

Dynamic assessment of students academic writing: Vygotskian and systemic functional linguistic per…

by Shrestha, Prithvi Narayan

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This book explores the application of an innovative assessment approach known as Dynamic Assessment (DA) to academic writing assessment, as developed within the Vygotskian sociocultural theory of learning. DA blends instruction with assessment by targeting and further developing…

Advances in Chinese as a second language: acquisition and processing

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This book is a collection of 13 empirical studies examining the acquisition and processing of Chinese as a second language. On the acquisition front, these studies explore the acquisition of structures such as the perfective marker le, wh-questions, bei- constructions, and bare …

Researching Chinese English: the state of the art

fromMultilingual education

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This volume offers a timely collection of original research papers on the various features and issues surrounding Chinese English, one of the varieties of World Englishes with a large and increasing number of learners and users. The five sections entitled 'Researching Chinese En…

Multiple Perspectives on the Self in SLA

by Mercer, Sarah

fromSecond language acquisition (Clevedon, England)

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Instead of viewing different perspectives on the self as competing with each other and considering one perspective on the self as being inherently 'better' than another, this book takes the view that a fuller, more comprehensive picture of the self in SLA can be gained by examin…

Diversity and decolonization in German studies

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"This book offers a critical look at postsecondary German Studies curricular models by engaging with scholarship on diversity and decolonization. Next to theoretical considerations about how German Studies faculty can approach diversity and decolonization, individual contributio…

Gender, participation and silence in the language classroom: Sh-shushing the girls

by Jule, Allyson

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In this first-hand study of the relationship of gender, ethnicity and the participation of children within an English-language teaching classroom, Julé re-assesses Lacan's approach to belonging with other theoretical approaches to gender and language, making use of case-study me…