The fourth edition of this classic textbook has been revised to reflect recent developments in language teaching and learning yet retains the basic structure and approach so popular with its readers. Teaching and learning content has been updated, particularly taking into accoun…
Forlagets beskrivelse: What can educators in different countries learn from each other about successful multilingual initiatives? By comparing experiences from diverse settings - France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK - the writers highlight ways …
Written for students encountering the topic for the first time, this is a clear and practical introduction to second language acquisition (SLA). Using non-technical language it explains how a second language is acquired; what the learner of a second language needs to know; and w…
Review: "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, indi…
Assesses historical "hyperpolyglot" linguistic high achievers who demonstrated an extraordinary capacity for learning and speaking languages, and explains the sources of such abilities and what it reveals about the nature of memory and language
An accessible introduction to applied linguistics. This clearly-written, easy-to-understand book is perfect for students whose chosen fields require them to be acquainted with the ways language works - such as future teachers, psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists - b…
The entry point for most potential sinophones is the Chinese language classroom. But what sort of 'language' and 'culture' are on offer there? And how are links drawn between the forms of the language and the situations in which they may be used? In this book, Edward McDonald em…
Indhold: Att arbeta språk- og kunskapsutvecklande. Tal i klassrummet - att skapa sammanhang för språkinläring. Från tal till skrift. Att skriva på ett andraspråk i alla ämnen - ett integrerat synsätt. Att läsa på ett andraspråk. Att lyssna - en aktiv och kognitivt krävande proce…
