Author : Merritt Ruhlen
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780804718943
This is the first of three pathbreaking volumes that will constitute a wide-ranging analytical guide to the world's approximately 5,000 languages. The volumes are written for both linguists and general readers, and this first volume in particular assumes no background in linguistics. A postscript prepared for this paperback edition takes research data to 1990. The book is illustrated with 21 maps.
Author : Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107002788
Introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing them with the variety of languages around the world.
Author : Diana M. Ruggiero
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1647121604
Teaching World Languages for Specific Purposes provides learner-centered strategies, models, and resources for the development of WLSP curricula. This guide bridges theory and practice, inviting scholars, educators, and professionals of all areas of world language specialization to create new opportunities for their students.
Author : Martine Robbeets
Publisher :
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198804628
This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the Transeurasian languages. It offers detailed structural overviews of individual languages, as well as comparative perspectives and insights from typology, genetics, and anthropology. The book will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Transeurasian and comparative linguistics.
Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311025803X
The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.
Author : Deborah Blaz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317443578
In this new edition of a bestseller, author Deborah Blaz helps you differentiate lessons for your world language students based on their learning styles, interests, prior knowledge, and comfort zones. This practical book uses brain-based teaching strategies to help students of all ability levels thrive in a rigorous differentiated learning environment. Each chapter provides classroom-tested activities and tiered lesson plans to help you teach vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading, and writing in world language classes in ways that are interactive, engaging, and effective for all learners. Features new to this edition include: Sample thematic units to make your lessons more authentic and immersive New strategies for using technology to differentiate world language instruction Additional checklists, rubrics, and feedback forms to help you organize your lesson plans and track students’ progress New connections to the Common Core State Standards, the ACTFL Standards, Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, and Bloom’s Taxonomy You’ll also learn how to differentiate assessment effectively to help all students show their full potential. Classroom-ready tools and templates can be downloaded as free eResources from our website (www.routledge.com/9781138906181) for immediate use.
Author : Merritt Ruhlen
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
This is the first of three pathbreaking volumes that will constitute a wide-ranging analytical guide to the world's approximately 5,000 languages. The volumes are written for both linguists and general readers, and this first volume in particular assumes no background in linguistics. A postscript prepared for this paperback edition takes research data to 1990. The book is illustrated with 21 maps.
Author : Deborah Blaz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1351689177
Enhance your students’ success and improve the likelihood of retention with the easy-to-implement activities and strategies in this book! Bestselling author Deborah Blaz shows how to create a classroom in which students can actively experience, experiment with and discover a world language. The new edition features updated strategies based on brain-based research and new ideas for using technology and personalized learning. In addition, the book has been reorganized to help you easily find and pull activities you want to use in your classroom the very next day. You’ll learn how to... mix up your repertoire of activities, games, and exercises to keep students engaged; introduce students to the culture of the language you teach by hosting parties and celebrations; overcome some of the biggest obstacles in the path to fluency, including verb conjugation, using object pronouns, and the subjunctive mood; customize your teaching strategies to accommodate a broader range of talents, skills, and intelligences; implement new assessment strategies to improve verbal skills and reading comprehension; and more! Bonus: Downloadable versions of some of the resources in this book are available on the Routledge website at www.routledge.com/9781138049574, so you can print and distribute them for immediate classroom use.
Author : Paul Sidwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3110558149
The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.
Author : Allyson Jule
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 184769683X
A Beginner’s Guide to Language and Gender offers a broad and accessible introduction to the study of gender and language use for those new to the subject. The book introduces the theoretical and practical perspectives, including relevant frameworks necessary to understand ways in which language interacts with gender/sex in various settings, including: in media, in schools, in places of business, in places of worship, and at home.
