Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. There is a connection between these two views. As the first ever non-Western language to be modernized, Japanese language moderniz…
Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. There is a connection between these two views. As the first ever non-Western language to be modernized, Japanese language moderniz…
Japan is regarded as a model case of successful language modernization. It is also often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. This book explores the debates relating to language modernization from a language ideology perspective, and in doing so reveals the mech…
This text offers a supplement to any foreign language methods class. It describes and analyzes the centuries old struggle between the two approaches to teaching a second language: grammar accuracy versus whole language/communication.
Research on age and second language acquisition (L2A) is vast, but inconclusive. Such research has mainly been motivated by the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH), which postulates that language acquisition becomes extremely difficult after the onset of puberty. Also, there is a l…
The King Abdullah Foreign Scholarship Programs gives thousands of young Saudi Arabian women the opportunity to study abroad, learn English, and earn advanced degrees. How do students from this religiously conservative nation, studying at two Washington universities, construct ca…
This master's thesis investigated realizations of typologically marked structures (word final stops) in the interlanguages of 15 ESL learners across Arabic, Brazilian-Portuguese and Japanese first languages (L1s). In general, previous theories of markedness (see Eckman's MARKEDN…
This thesis investigates the representation and acquisition of word-level stress in Turkish. Two general proposals are made in the thesis, one related to formal phonology, the other about second language (L2) acquisition of word-level prosody. The first proposes that the presenc…
This dissertation examines whether enhanced executive function plays a role in successful second language acquisition (SLA). Specifically, I examine learners' performance in language learning tasks and in three tasks argued to reflect components of Miyake et al.'s (2000) model o…
"This book will show you how to create Moodle courses specifically for teaching foreign languages. You'll develop learning activities to help students understand, speak, and write in the foreign language. The book is ideal for teachers who want to teach a foreign language to Eng…