Author : Caroline Clapham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 1996-07-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521567084
This book investigates the ESP claim that tertiary level ESL students should be given reading proficiency tests in their own academic subject areas, and studies the effect of background knowledge on reading comprehension.
Author : Simone Braverman
Publisher : IELTS-Blog
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 0987300970
Target Band 7: IELTS Academic Module - How to Maximize Your Score (Fourth Edition) was published in March 2021. This excellent self-study book for intense Academic IELTS preparation in a few weeks is designed to help students achieve their best personal score. All the tips, techniques, strategies and advice are focused on maximizing students' score by increasing their task-solving speed and efficiency, and preventing typical mistakes. 'Target Band 7' is loved by teachers as well as students. New! Covers paper-based and computer-delivered IELTS.
Author : Sin Wang Chong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000317625
An essential companion for IELTS writing instructors and students, Developing Writing Skills for IELTS provides IELTS test-takers with the necessary skills to succeed in the two academic writing tasks in IELTS. Adopting an original exemplar-based writing instructional approach, this text offers an in-depth and reader-friendly analysis of the assessment standards of the two academic writing tasks in IELTS. Authentic exemplars written by EFL university students are included to illustrate high (Bands 8–9), average (Bands 6–7), and low (Bands 4–5) performances in IELTS writing. Key Features: • Diagrammatical representation of assessment standards of the two academic writing tasks by experienced IELTS writing examiners and instructors. • 100 writing questions modelled after the IELTS format, designed by the authors, and categorised according to question types and topics that emerge from an analysis of over 400 IELTS writing questions. • Over 100 writing exemplars by EFL university students, accompanied by guided activities and suggested answers. Designed as a classroom text, a resource for workshops and consultations, or a self-study material, Developing Writing Skills for IELTS: A Research-based Approach will support IELTS writing instructors and test-takers with a variety of writing proficiencies.
Author : Karlfried Knapp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110188333
The Handbooks of Applied Linguistics series is based on an understanding of Applied Linguistics as an inter- and transdisciplinary field of academic enquiry. Applied Linguistics deals with the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language and communication are a central issue. The Handbooks of Applied Linguistics provide a state-of-the-art description of established and emerging areas of Applied Linguistics. Each volume gives an overview of the field, identifies most important traditions and their findings, identifies the gaps in current research, and gives perspectives for future directions.
Author : Brian Paltridge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1118941551
Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, this Handbook surveys the key research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). • Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the origins and evolution, current research, and future directions in ESP • Features newly-commissioned contributions from a global team of leading scholars • Explores the history of ESP and current areas of research, including speaking, reading, writing, technology, and business, legal, and medical English • Considers perspectives on ESP research such as genre, intercultural rhetoric, multimodality, English as a lingua franca and ethnography
Author : John M. Levis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027257639
Inspired by Murray Munro and Tracey Derwing’s 1995 seminal study of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, this book revisits the insights of their original research and presents subsequent studies extending this work to new ways of understanding second language speech. By rejecting the nativeness approach upon which previous pronunciation research and teaching were built, Munro and Derwing’s paper became the catalyst for a new paradigm of pronunciation and speech research and teaching. For the first time, pronunciation researchers had an empirically-motivated set of dimensions for assessing L2 speech. Results of many subsequent studies showed that the original insights of three partially-independent measures are indispensable to language teaching, language assessment, social evaluations of speech, and pedagogical priorities. This monograph offers 9 diverse chapters by leading researchers, all of which focus on intelligibility and or comprehensibility. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in up-to-date coverage of L2 pronunciation matters. Originally published as special issue of Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:3 (2020)
Author : Sandra Raban
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521884144
The first full-length history of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate.
Author : David B. Baker
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0195366557
The science and practice of psychology has evolved around the world on different trajectories and timelines, yet with a convergence on the recognition of the need for a human science that can confront the challenges facing the world today. Few would argue that the standard narrative of the history of psychology has emphasized European and American traditions over others, but in today's global culture, there is a greater need in psychology for international understanding. This volume describes the historical development of psychology in countries throughout the world. Contributors provide narratives that examine the political and socioeconomic forces that have shaped their nations' psychologies. Each unique story adds another element to our understanding of the history of psychology. The chapters in this volume remind us that there are unique contexts and circumstances that influence the ways in which the science and practice of psychology are assimilated into our daily lives. Making these contexts and circumstances explicit through historical research and writing provides some promise of greater international insight, as well as a better understanding of the human condition.
Author : Cyril J. Weir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107677696
This volume establishes how English language constructs were measured in Cambridge English examinations over the period 1913 to 2012. An addition to the Studies in Language Testing series, this volume provides an overview of English language testing over the last century, with coverage of key theoretical and practical aspects of the assessment of reading, listening, writing and speaking skills. It includes examples of the Cambridge English exams, old and new, and is the first volume to describe in a systematic way the different theoretical influences which have shaped the development of the constructs underlying Cambridge English exams in the last 100 years.
Author : R. Joseph Ponniah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9811085722
This book addresses basic issues in language education and explores how reading, with a focus on meaning, contributes to the development of all aspects of language including vocabulary, spelling, grammar, and syntax. It departs from traditional methods and practices in language learning to investigate the potency of reading in improving language acquisition. The traditional practice in language classes to teach language skills explicitly through acquiring forms and structures of language is often less than successful, and teachers are gradually incorporating reading materials and practices into the curriculum. This book provides important inputs to language teachers and educators on the need to include reading as an idea and as a practice into the curriculum. Among other things, it explores the benefits of incidental learning of language properties such as vocabulary, syntax and grammar and gives adequate exposure to different types of reading strategies to promote reading among learners. It also exploits the possible transfer of L1 reading strategies and capabilities to L2 reading for language acquisition. In so doing, this book hopes to promote autonomous learning among L2 learners and guide readers in alternative strategies to solve comprehension problems.
