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Reflections on Language and Language Learning

Author : Marcel Bax
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027225849
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Language and Language Learning written by Marcel Bax and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, thirty-one leading language scholars and educational linguists in the Netherlands and abroad with whom over the years Professor van Essen, one of the grandees of applied linguistics, has collaborated provide original essays and studies which discuss the most recent insights and trends in the fields of linguistics and foreign language teaching. While interdisciplinary in scope, the volume encompasses theoretical advances in (educational) linguistic thinking; for example, the perceptive articles written by Michael Byram, Christopher N. Candlin, Natalia Gvishiani, Peter Jordens, Jan Koster, Leo van Lier, and Bondi Sciarone as well as a sample of the latest methodological developments in areas such as ELT, LSP, and content-based language teaching; cases in point are the useful contributions by Jeanine Deen & Hilde Hacquebord, Michaël Goethals, Paul Meara & Ignacio Rodríguez Sánchez, Rosamond Mitchell & Christopher Brumfit, and Uta Thürmer.

Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching

Author : Rod Ellis
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788920155
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching written by Rod Ellis and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all learners and in all instructional contexts. This book draws on the author’s experience of working with teachers, together with his knowledge of relevant research and theory, to examine the key issues. It proposes flexible ways in which tasks can be designed and implemented in the language classroom to address the problems that teachers often face with task-based language teaching. It will appeal to researchers and teachers who are interested in task-based language teaching and the practical and theoretical issues involved. It will also be of interest to students and researchers working in the areas of applied linguistics, TESOL and second language acquisition.

Reflections on Language

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Fontana Press
ISBN 13 : 9780006342991
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Language written by Noam Chomsky and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition

Author : Aarnes Gudmestad
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263558
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition by : Aarnes Gudmestad

Download or read book Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition written by Aarnes Gudmestad and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume offers critical reflections on an essential component of research method in the field of second language acquisition – data. Scholars working on diverse areas (e.g., pragmatics, corrective feedback, phonology) and approaches (e.g., corpus linguistics, concept-oriented analyses, variationism) have come together to identify challenges researchers face when collecting, coding, and analyzing data and to provide guidance for making advancements regarding these aspects of research method. This volume also showcases three types of critical reflection. One involves building a relevant corpus of published investigations and using that database to identify methodological issues in existing research. Another consists of recoding and reanalyzing published work, before reflecting on the impact that these decisions have on observations made about interlanguage. The third begins with a particular area of or approach to second language acquisition and then offers a critical examination on the challenges that characterize the selected area or approach. Researchers and graduate students alike will benefit from an open discussion on methodological issues that are in need of improvement.

Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research

Author : Gary Barkhuizen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131728609X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research written by Gary Barkhuizen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research is the first book to present understandings of language teacher identity (LTI) from a broad range of research fields. Drawing on their personal research experience, 41 contributors locate LTI within their area of expertise by considering their conceptual understanding of LTI and the methodological approaches used to investigate it. The chapters are narrative in nature and take the form of guided reflections within a common chapter structure, with authors embedding their discussions within biographical accounts of their professional lives and research work. Authors weave discussions of LTI into their own research biographies, employing a personal reflective style. This book also looks to future directions in LTI research, with suggestions for research topics and methodological approaches. This is an ideal resource for students and researchers interested in language teacher identity as well as language teaching and research more generally.

On Language

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595587616
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book On Language written by Noam Chomsky and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two most popular titles by the noted linguist and critic in one volume—an ideal introduction to his work. On Language features some of Noam Chomsky’s most informal and highly accessible work. In Part I, Language and Responsibility, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. In Part II, Reflections on Language, Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over fundamental questions of language. “Language and Responsibility is a well-organized, clearly written and comprehensive introduction to Chomsky’s thought.” —The New York Times Book Review “Language and Responsibility brings together in one readable volume Chomsky’s positions on issues ranging from politics and philosophy of science to recent advances in linguistic theory. . . . The clarity of presentation at times approaches that of Bertrand Russell in his political and more popular philosophical essays.” —Contemporary Psychology “Reflections on Language is profoundly satisfying and impressive. It is the clearest and most developed account of the case of universal grammar and of the relations between his theory of language and the innate faculties of mind responsible for language acquisition and use.” —Patrick Flanagan

Reflections on language evolution

Author : Cedric Boeckx
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961103283
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on language evolution written by Cedric Boeckx and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our language faculty, the dominant evolutionary narrative coming out of the linguistic tradition most explicitly oriented towards biology ("biolinguistics") appears increasingly implausible. This text offers ways of opening up linguistic inquiry and fostering interdisciplinarity, taking advantage of new opportunities to provide quantitative, testable hypotheses concerning the complex evolutionary path that led to the modern human language faculty. The essay is structured around three main themes: (i) renewed appreciation for the comparative method applied to cognitive questions, leading to the identification of elementary but fundamental abstractions in non-linguistic species relevant to language; (ii) awareness of the conceptual gaps between disciplines, and the need to carefully link genotype and phenotype without bypassing any "intermediate" levels of description (certainly not the brain); and (iii) adoption of a "philosophical" outlook that puts the complexity of biological entities front and center.

Reflections on Language

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Language written by Noam Chomsky and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1975 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pedagogical Reflections On Learning Languages In Instructed Settings

Author : Maria Noelia Ruiz-Madrid
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443808903
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Pedagogical Reflections On Learning Languages In Instructed Settings by : Maria Noelia Ruiz-Madrid

Download or read book Pedagogical Reflections On Learning Languages In Instructed Settings written by Maria Noelia Ruiz-Madrid and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedagogical Reflections on Learning Languages in Instructed Settings is intended to provide the latest pedagogical reflections that derive from research in a variety of key areas within the discipline of language learning. Thus, this volume aims at helping practising language teachers to update their teaching methodology.The book has fifteen chapters that are grouped around five sections. The first section of the book includes three chapters, which outline past approaches to language learning and highlight advances in our understanding of how languages are likely to be learned and taught. These three chapters provide the theoretical grounding for the rest of the volume by discussing outstanding concepts in the language learning field, namely: those of eclecticism (Chapter 1), communication (Chapter 2), and learner autonomy (Chapter 3). The second section of the book contains three chapters, which explore new directions in the field that have recently caught the attention of language researchers and practitioners, namely: the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in language learning (Chapter 4) the use of language corpora (Chapter 5) and finally, the use of the portfolio as a new assessment tool responding to new pedagogical demands (Chapter 6). The third section of the book consists of three chapters, which discuss the role of learners' individual variables such as affect (Chapter 7), learning styles (Chapter 8), and learning strategies (Chapter 9), crucial for understanding the nature of language learning. The fourth section of the book has five chapters and provides insights into understanding the nature of the four language skills, that is to say, listening (Chapter 10), speaking (Chapter 11), reading (Chapter 12) and writing (Chapter 13). This section also addresses the issue of assessment with the aim of increasing awareness on the duality teaching/assessing and its pedagogical dimension (Chapter 14). The book concludes with the fifth section, which includes a single chapter, that pulls all aforementioned topics together and highlights connections to a student-centred approach, which involves a reformulation of language teachers' teaching practices (Chapter 15).

Writing and Language Learning

Author : Rosa M. Manchón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260583
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Language Learning written by Rosa M. Manchón and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current volume aspires to add to previous research on the connection between writing and language learning from a dual perspective: It seeks to reflect current progress in the domain as well as to foster future developments in theory and research. The theoretical postulations contained in Part I identify and expand in novel ways the diverse lenses through which the varied, multi-faceted dimensions of the connection between writing and language learning can be explored. The methodological reflections put forward in Part III signal theoretically-grounded and pedagogically-relevant paths along which future empirical work can grow. The empirical studies reported in Part II illuminate the myriad of individual, educational, and task-related variables that (may) mediate short-term and long-term language learning outcomes. These studies examine diverse forms of writing, performed in varied environments (including pen-and-paper and digital writing), conditions (writing individually and/or collaboratively), and instructional settings (academic settings – including secondary school and college level institutions – as well as out-of-school contexts).

Reflective Dialogue

Author : Satoko Kato
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131757754X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Reflective Dialogue written by Satoko Kato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflective Dialogue presents professional educators with the necessary background and skills to engage in reflective dialogue with language learners effectively. It draws on work in the fields of advising in language learning, reflective practice, sociocultural theory, language learner autonomy, counseling, and life coaching to provide both an introduction to the field and guidance for researching advising in action. The book also includes a wide variety of practical ideas and over 30 sample dialogues that offer clear demonstrations of the concepts discussed in practice. This dynamic textbook’s practical approach illustrates how reflective dialogue can promote language learner autonomy and how language advising can be implemented successfully both inside and outside the classroom.

The Kingdom of Speech

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316404640
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom of Speech written by Tom Wolfe and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech -- not evolution -- is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.

Reflections on Language Learning

Author : Leila Barbara
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853592577
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Language Learning written by Leila Barbara and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1994 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reflecting on Leadership in Language Education

Author : Andy Curtis
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781800501409
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Reflecting on Leadership in Language Education by : Andy Curtis

Download or read book Reflecting on Leadership in Language Education written by Andy Curtis and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are many aspects of language education that have been covered extensively in the literature, from methodologies to technologies, Leadership in Language Education (LiLE) has received very little attention - until recently.As the world saw, during the global pandemic, poor leadership at the highest levels costs lives. The world needs better leaders - at every level of society - and Reflecting on Leadership in Language Education represents the first time that Reflective Practice has been positioned at the forefront of leadership development in language education. It is also the first book ever to bring together 300 years of LiLE experience into a single volume, capturing the insights from three centuries of lived LiLE experiences for the generations of leaders to come.

TESOL Guide for Critical Praxis in Teaching, Inquiry, and Advocacy

Author : Crawford, Jenifer
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799880958
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book TESOL Guide for Critical Praxis in Teaching, Inquiry, and Advocacy written by Crawford, Jenifer and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of TESOL encompasses English teachers who teach English as an additional language in English-dominant countries and those teachers who teach English as a foreign language in countries where a language other than English is the official language. This range of educators teaches English to children, adolescents, and adults in primary, secondary, post-secondary, popular education, and language academies or tutoring centers. The diversity of learners and contexts within the TESOL field presents a unique opportunity for educators to address varied educational and societal needs. This opportunity calls for TESOL educators who can support the whole learner in a range of contexts for the greater social good. There is an urgent need for readily reproducible and step-by-step research-based practices and current standards in TESOL that bridge the gap between critical scholarship and equitable teaching practices. This book would serve as a critical addition to current literature in TESOL. TESOL Guide for Critical Praxis in Teaching, Inquiry, and Advocacy is an essential reference that provides practical and equitable step-by-step guides for TESOL educators through the current best practices and methods for effective and equity-minded teaching, critical inquiry, and transformative advocacy. This book is of particular value as it bridges theories to practices with a critical look at racial and social justice in English language teaching, which will lead to the integration of social justice-focused practice across the new curriculum. Covering topics such as integrated language instruction, equity and inclusivity, critical consciousness, and online learning, this text is essential for in-service and pre-service TESOL educators, education students, researchers, administrators, teacher educators, and academicians.

Chronicles of Dissent

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 164259671X
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Dissent written by Noam Chomsky and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conducted from 1984 to 1996, these interviews first appeared in the books Chronicles of Dissent, Keeping the Rabble in Line, and Class Warfare, all published by the independent publisher Common Courage Press in Monroe, Maine. This omnibus collection includes a new introduction by David Barsamian, looking back on conversations and engagement with Chomsky’s ideas that now spans decades, as well as a classic essay by Alexander Cockburn on Chomsky that served as the introduction to one of the original volumes.

Reflective Writing for Language Teachers

Author : Thomas S. C. Farrell
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781845535377
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Reflective Writing for Language Teachers written by Thomas S. C. Farrell and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflective Writing for Language Teachers explores the impact of regular writing as a reflective tool for teachers of English as a second language, other language teachers, and classroom English or language arts teachers.