Author : Vivian Cook
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853595837
"Portraits of the L2 User treats second language users in their own right rather than as failed native speakers. It describes a range of psychological and linguistic approaches to diverse topics about L2 users. It thus provides an overview of current second language acquisition theories, results and methods, seen from a common perspective."--Jacket.
Author : Vivian Cook
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2003-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847699588
This book looks at changes in the first language of people who know a second language, thus seeing L2 users as people in their own right differing from the monolingual in both first and second languages. It presents theories and research that investigate the first language of second language users from a variety of perspectives including vocabulary, pragmatics, cognition, and syntax and using a variety of linguistic and psychological models.
Author : Zoltán Dörnyei
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847696759
Due to its theoretical and educational significance within the language learning process, the study of L2 motivation has been an important area of second language acquisition research for several decades. Over the last few years L2 motivation research has taken an exciting new turn by focusing increasingly on the language learner’s situated identity and various self-perceptions. As a result, the concept of L2 motivation is currently in the process of being radically reconceptualised and re-theorised in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity. With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume brings together the first comprehensive anthology of key conceptual and empirical papers that mark this important paradigmatic shift.
Author : Enric Llurda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2006-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 0387245650
As non-natives are increasingly found teaching languages, particularly English, both in ESL and EFL contexts, the identification of their specific contributions and their main strengths has become more relevant than ever. This volume provides different approaches to the study of non-native teachers: NNS teachers as seen by students, teachers, graduate supervisors, and by themselves. It contributes seldom-explored perspectives, like classroom discourse analysis, and social-psychological framework to discuss conceptions of NNS teachers.
Author : Paola Vettorel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110336006
In a constantly interconnected world communication takes place beyond territorial boundaries, in networks where English works as a lingua franca. The volume explores how ELF is employed in internationally-oriented personal blogs; findings show how bloggers deploy an array of resources to their expressive and interactional aims, combining global and local communicative practices. Implications of findings in ELF and ELT terms are also discussed.
Author : Rosa M. Manchón
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0429576412
This unique state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, systematic discussion of second language (L2) writing and L2 learning. Led by experts Rosa Manchón and Charlene Polio, top international scholars synthesize and contextualize the salient theoretical approaches, methodological issues, empirical findings, and emerging themes in the connection between L2 writing and L2 learning, and set the future research agenda to move the field forward. This will be an indispensable resource for scholars and students of second language acquisition (SLA), applied linguistics, education, and composition studies.
Author : Istvan Kecskes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2007-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402059353
This work has a uniquely cognitive-functional perspective on bi-lingualism. This means that it makes a clear distinction between real world and projected world. Information conveyed by language must be about the projected world. Both the experimental results and the systematic claims in this volume call for a weak form of whorfianism. The authors examine too some relatively unexplored issues of bilingualism, such as, among others, gender systems in the bilingual mind, synergic concepts, and ontological categorization.
Author : Vivian Cook
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853597930
Second Language Writing Systems looks at how people learn and use a second language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteristics of the first and second writing systems, to a certain extent independently of the languages involved. This book for the first time presents the effects of writing systems on second language reading and writing and on second language awareness, and provides a new platform for discussing bilingualism, biliteracy and writing systems.
Author : Jim Cummins
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1215 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 0387463011
This two volume handbook provides a comprehensive examination of policy, practice, research and theory related to English Language Teaching in international contexts. More than 70 chapters highlight the research foundation for best practices, frameworks for policy decisions, and areas of consensus and controversy in second language acquisition and pedagogy. The Handbook provides a unique resource for policy makers, educational administrators, and researchers concerned with meeting the increasing demand for effective English language teaching. It offers a strongly socio-cultural view of language learning and teaching. It is comprehensive and global in perspective with a range of fresh new voices in English language teaching research.
Author : Colin Baker
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 1847693563
Written as an introductory text from a crossdisciplinary perspective, this book covers individual and societal concepts in minority and majority languages.
