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Understanding Second Language Learning Difficulties

Author : Madeline E. Ehrman
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452245770
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Second Language Learning Difficulties written by Madeline E. Ehrman and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume has some really nice features such as: the discussion of audio-lingual theory as deriving from behaviorism, the terrific discussion of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation--that is discussed here in a manner superior to any I′ve seen, the discussion of over-motivated students; the relation between self-esteem and self-efficacy, disabilities and language learning, and the provision of specific tips for learning vocabulary, grammar etc. The case studies are also wonderful. " Robert Sternberg, Department of Psychology Yale University "The case studies are among the most appealing characteristics of the book. They present readily identifiable, relatively easy-to-understand types of learners, and they include a vast range of possible types. The questions and prods related to the case studies are very valuable. The tables are very handy. I love the table on defense mechanisms and the chart about the intriguing metaphors for language learning." Rebecca L. Oxford, Ph.D, Area Head, Teacher Education University of Alabama Why is it so difficult for adults to learn a second language? How can we get to the source of these difficulties, diagnose the learner, and help them achieve their goals? Understanding Second Language Learning Difficulties addresses these questions, demonstrating some of the insights, techniques, and skills needed to understand adult students who are having problems learning a second language. Author Madeline E. Ehrman provides a deep examination of the source of difficulty, taking into consideration such issues as learning styles, personality dispositions, motivation, learning strategies, self-efficacy, and anxiety. Helpful summaries, case studies, and exercises are included, giving the reader a firm grasp of the complex issues involved. This new volume presents multiple theories and models for each of the cases discussed, showing the reader how to evaluate observations in terms of individual difference dimensions. Scholars, researchers, and professionals in linguistics, communication, English as a second language, as well as teachers and trainers will value the thorough examination, and unique viewpoints this book offers.

Challenges in the 1990s for College Foreign Language Programs

Author : Sally Sieloff Magnan
Publisher : Heinle & Heinle Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Challenges in the 1990s for College Foreign Language Programs written by Sally Sieloff Magnan and published by Heinle & Heinle Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers includes the following: "Style Wars: Teacher-Student Style Conflicts in the Language Classroom" (Rebecca L. Oxford, Madeline E. Ehrman, and Roberta Z. Lavine); "Articulating Learning in High School and College Programs: Holistic Theory in the Foreign Language Curriculum" (Janet Swaffar); "Reconsidering the FL Requirement: From Seat-Time to Proficiency in the Minnesota Experience" (Betsy K. Barnes, Carol A. Klee, and Ray M. Wakefield); "Team Teaching French with Teaching Assistants" (Theodore E.D. Bruan and Bonnie A. Robb); "On Apples and Oranges: The Effects of Integrating Beginners and False Beginners in Elementary French Classes" (Steven J. Loughrin-Sacco); "The Question of Language Program Direction is Academic" (James F. Lee and Bill VanPatten); "The Graduate Teaching Assistant in an Age of Standards" (Joseph A. Murphy); "Advancing the Case for an Advanced Methods Course" (John F. Lalande II); "Bridging the Gap Between Teaching and Learning: A Critical Look at Foreign Language Textbooks" (Renate A. Schulz); "CALL Today: Implications for Multisectioned Language Programs" (Robert Ariew); and "The Preparation and Support of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Foreign Languages: A Bibliography" (David P. Benseler and Christine Cronjaeger). (Papers contain references.) (SM).

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1993: Strategic Interaction and Language Acquisition

Author : James E. Alatis
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589018525
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (185 download)

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Critical Issues in Foreign Language Instruction

Author : Ellen S. Silber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135766223
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Critical Issues in Foreign Language Instruction written by Ellen S. Silber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1991. This is Volume 22 of the Source Books on Education series. Politically speaking the study of foreign languages and cultures helps maintain a strong competitive position in an increasingly global marketplace. It was hard to imagine in 1957 that the launching of a Soviet rocket would push the United States into its greatest investment ever in foreign language education. As American policy-makers attempted to play catch-up with our brothers and sisters behind the iron curtain, this country infused federal dollars into extensive foreign language teacher training and the creation of new foreign language educational programs. As suddenly as federal support was given, however, so was it taken away; and its withdrawal was responsible for one of the darkest periods in the history of foreign language education in America. Drawing on the expertise of a number of the nation's most experienced and creative foreign language educators, this volume, edited by Ellen S. Silber, addresses some of the crucial problems we face in foreign language education today.

Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities

Author : Heidi Byrnes
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589013131
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities by : Heidi Byrnes

Download or read book Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities written by Heidi Byrnes and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced language learning has only recently begun to capture the interest and attention of applied linguists and professionals in language education in the United States. In this breakthrough volume, experts in the field lay the groundwork for approaching the increasingly important role of advanced language learning in the larger context of multilingual societies, globalization, and security. This volume presents both general and theoretical insights and language-specific considerations in college classrooms spanning a range of languages, from the commonly taught languages of English, French, and German to the less commonly taught Farsi, Korean, Norwegian, and Russian. Among theoretical frameworks likely to be conducive to imagining and fostering instructed "advancedness" in a second language, this volume highlights a cognitive-semantic approach. The theoretical and data-based findings make clear that advanced learners in particular are characterized by the capacity to make situated choices from across the entire language system, from vocabulary and grammar to discourse features, which suggests the need for a text-oriented, meaning-driven approach to language teaching, learning, and research. This volume also considers whether and how information structuring in second-language composition reveals first-language preferences of grammaticized concepts. Other topics include curricular and instructional approaches to narrativity, vocabulary expansion, the demands on instructed programs for efficiency and effectiveness in order to assure advanced levels, and learners' ability to function in professional contexts with their diverse oral and written genre requirements. Finally, the volume probes the role and nature of assessment as a measurement tool for both researching and assessing advanced language learning and as an essential component of improving programs.

Applied Language Learning

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Methodology in Language Teaching

Author : Jack C. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521808294
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Methodology in Language Teaching written by Jack C. Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive anthology gives an overview of current approaches, issues and practices in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages at elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels.

Intelligent Language Tutors

Author : V. Melissa Holland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135446253
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Language Tutors written by V. Melissa Holland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The techniques of natural language processing (NLP) have been widely applied in machine translation and automated message understanding, but have only recently been utilized in second language teaching. This book offers both an argument for and a critical examination of this new application, with an examination of how systems may be designed to exploit the power of NLP, accomodate its limitations, and minimize its risks. This volume marks the first collection of work in the U.S. and Canada that incorporates advanced human language technologies into language tutoring systems, covering languages as diverse as Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, and English. The book is organized into sections that express the levels of analysis dealt with in learning and teaching a language and with the tasks of the student as writer, reader, conversant, and actor in the world. These sections bring together research by specialists in linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychology, instructional design, and language teaching. In addition to providing detailed descriptions of working systems, amply illustrated with screens from lesson and authoring interfaces, the contributors address a spectrum of common issues: * What can current NLP technology contribute to computer-assisted language instruction and to research on language learning? * How can this technology meet the demands of pedagogical theory for communicative language teaching in authentic contexts? * How can designers constrain tutoring environments to ensure accurate analysis of learners' language? * What can NLP-based systems teach us about language acquisition, about linguistic theory, and about theories of language pedagogy? * What lessons have been learned in using these systems to date? Discipline-specific issues are illuminated as well: the relative merits of the major syntactic frameworks for NLP-based language tutoring; the adaptation of theories like lexical conceptual structure to support semantic interpretation; the integration of input language with visual microworlds and dialogue games; the pragmatics of the tutoring discourse; the selection of instructional principles to guide system design; and the accomodation of design to individual differences and learner styles. A concluding section assesses this work from larger theoretical and practical perspectives -- experimental psychology and psycholinguistics, linguistics, language teaching, and second language acquisition research.

Reflecting on Proficiency from a Classroom Perspective

Author : June K. Phillips
Publisher : Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Teaching English in a Spanish Setting

Author : Hang Ferrer Mora
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 9788437052403
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (524 download)

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Major American Higher Education Issues and Challenges in the 1990s

Author : Richard I. Miller
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Contemporary Issues in Foreign Language Education

Author : Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031286553
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Issues in Foreign Language Education by : Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz

Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Foreign Language Education written by Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume offers an insightful theoretical conceptualization of issues central to 21st century foreign language learning and teaching. Drawing on research results obtained in the fields of pedagogy, social psychology and sociology of education, this book provides a comprehensive practical exploration of issues experienced by researchers in Poland and in Europe, and which can easily find far-reaching implications in other educational contexts. Part I, Focus on the Teacher, includes seven texts discussing topics relevant to teacher initial and in-service education, as well as the functioning of foreign language instructors in educational systems. The eight contributions included in Part II, Focus on the Learner, explore learner-internal and learner-external factors that affect the effectiveness of the language learning process. The exploration of key contemporary topics and the wide range of methodologies applied make this book of high relevance to Second Language Acquisition scholars, teacher educators, teachers, and language education policy makers.

International Exchange Programs in the 1990's and Their Role in Public Diplomacy

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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CALICO Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Learning and Teaching English in India

Author : Ravi Sheorey
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761934653
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Learning and Teaching English in India written by Ravi Sheorey and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents empirical studies on the various factors that influence English language learning and teaching in India. In particular, the author examines whether and to what extent the variables which have been shown to influence second language learning in monolingual countries also apply to the Indian situation which is characterized by multilingualism and multiculturalism. Among the various aspects discussed in this book are Indian students` (and their teachers`) ‘theories’ about learning English; their preferences or styles for language learning; the learning and reading strategies they use to enhance their competence in English; the degree of language learning anxiety they experience; and their attitudes toward, and motivation for, learning English. Ravi Sheorey also explores Indian teachers` judgments of the errors they come across in the writings of their students. The results are compared to studies with subjects from other countries and the implications for the learning and teaching of English are discussed in each chapter.

Resources in Education

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Decolonizing Foreign Language Education

Author : Donaldo Macedo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429841728
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing Foreign Language Education written by Donaldo Macedo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonizing Foreign Language Education interrogates current foreign language and second language education approaches that prioritize white, western thought. Edited by acclaimed critical theorist and linguist Donaldo Macedo, this volume includes cutting-edge work by a select group of critical language scholars working to rigorously challenge the marginalization of foreign language education and the displacement of indigenous and non-standard language varieties through the reification of colonial languages. Each chapter confronts the hold of colonialism and imperialism that inform and shape the relationship between foreign language education and literary studies by asserting that a critical approach to applied linguistics is just as important a tool for FL/ESL/EFL educators as literature or linguistic theory.