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Author : Julie A. Foss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Individual Differences and Text Genre in L2 French Reading Comprehension written by Julie A. Foss and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shaofeng Li
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000548406
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Individual Differences written by Shaofeng Li and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Individual Differences provides a thorough, in-depth discussion of the theory, research, and pedagogy pertaining to the role individual difference (ID) factors play in second language acquisition (SLA). It goes beyond the traditional repertoire and includes 32 chapters covering a full spectrum of topics on learners’ cognitive, conative, affective, and demographic/sociocultural variation. The volume examines IDs from two perspectives: one is how each ID variable is associated with learning behaviors, processes, and outcomes; the other is how each domain of SLA, such as vocabulary or reading, is affected by clusters of ID variables. The volume also includes a section on the common methods used in ID research, including data elicitation instruments such as surveys, interviews, and psychometric testing, as well as methods of data analysis such as structural equation modeling. The book is a must-read for any second language researcher or applied linguist interested in investigating the effects of IDs on language learning, and for any educator interested in taking account of learners’ individual differences to maximize the effects of second language instruction.
Author : JoAnn Hammadou Sullivan
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607525380
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Literacy and the Second Language Learner written by JoAnn Hammadou Sullivan and published by IAP. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of second language learning research has grown rapidly in recent years. Educators have become increasingly aware that pedagogical knowledge varies significantly from one subject domain to the next and that findings from educational research in one domain are not necessarily applicable to the next. Researchers in second language learning are adding to our understandings of secondlanguage specific pedagogy. There exists a need, therefore, for an outlet for these ever improving understandings of this content-specific pedagogy. The new book series, Research in Second Language Learning, will provide just such an outlet. The series invites articles from all methodological approaches to research. The series will promote a research-based approach to the decision-making process in second language teaching/learning.
Author : Zuheir A. Alidib
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (588 download)
Download or read book The Effects of Text Genre on Foreign Language Reading Comprehension of College Elementary and Intermediate Readers of French written by Zuheir A. Alidib and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of text genre on French language reading comprehension at two levels of college French instruction. The subjects consisted of college students enrolled in the second quarter of elementary French (French 102.01) and the second quarter of intermediate French (French 104.01) of the college French program at The Ohio State University. Subjects were rated based on their level of academic performance in their respective levels of French study. All subjects read the same two passages from twentieth century French literature (excerpts from a play and a novel). Subjects wrote an L1 free-recall protocol upon relinquishing each passage. The 48 recall protocols were scored using Johnson's weighted prepositional analysis system (1970) and the scores were analyzed with the Analysis of variance (ANOVA) procedure with the following design variables (a) Text genre (Play, Novel), (b) Level of language instruction (French 102, French 104), (c) Teacher assigned rating of student academic performance (Excellent, Good, Poor). The two-way (ANOVA) mixed design revealed significant effect for text genre and level of class performance but no significant main effect for the level of instruction. The ANOVA did not indicate either first-order or second-order interaction. This finding has implications for further research as well as instructional use.
Author : Hiroshi Nara
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824822613
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (226 download)
Download or read book Acts of Reading written by Hiroshi Nara and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students who have completed a year of German read Brecht in their second year, those of Spanish read Cervantes. Teachers of first and second-year Japanese can often find nothing comparable. "Why aren't your students reading literature?" they are asked. "Why not Soseki? Or Murakami?" What are instructors of Japanese doing wrong? Nothing, according to the authors of this volume. Rather, they argue, such questions exemplify the gross misunderstandings and unreasonable expectations of teaching reading in Japanese. In Acts of Reading, the authors set out to explore what reading is for Japanese as a language, and how instructors should teach it to students of Japanese. They seek answers to two questions: What are the aspects of reading in Japan as manifested in Japanese society? What L2 (second-language) reading problems are specific to Japanese? In answering the first and related questions, the authors conclude that reading is a socially motivated, purposeful act that is savored and becomes a part of people's lives. Reading instruction in Japanese, therefore, should include teaching students how to work with text as the Japanese do in Japanese society. The second question relates more directly to traditional concerns in L2 reading. The authors begin with a general theory of reading. They then offer a welcome glimpse into the rich and complex perspectives-sometimes conflicting, other times symbiotic-on what reading is and how it is performed in L1 and L2, and, most importantly, on the web of interconnections between the phenomenology of reading and the demands it places on teaching approaches to reading in Japanese. With essays by Charles J. Quinn, Jr., Fumiko Harada, and Chris Brockett Foreword by J. Marshall Unger
Author : Dr Gianfranco Conti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783949651960
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Language Teacher Toolkit, Second Edition written by Dr Gianfranco Conti and published by . This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heavily revised and updated new edition of the best-selling language teacher handbook is a comprehensive introduction to research-informed classroom practice. Topics explored include: Language teaching methods Lesson and curriculum planning Intercultural understanding Listening, speaking, reading and writing Teaching in the target language Vocabulary, grammar and phonics Fluency and lexicogrammar Assessment Meeting the needs of all learners Teaching advanced level students Motivation Songs and drama Subject knowledge Language teachers of any experience will be introduced to a wide range of findings from second language acquisition and cognitive science research, along with a wealth of practical classroom ideas to enhance their practice. This new edition lays greater emphasis on lexicogrammar, fluency, intercultural understanding, meeting diverse learner needs, lesson and curriculum planning. About the first edition: "A treasure chest for every language teacher." (Languages Today, the magazine of the Association for Language Learning.)
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Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Bernhardt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136976256
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading written by Elizabeth Bernhardt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive discussions of upper-register second-language texts (both expository and narrative) that adult second-language readers encounter daily across the globe, it also presents an assessment schema for second-language text comprehension as well as for the assessment of teaching. Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading: includes languages other than English in the discussion of second language reading is firmly anchored in a theory of second language reading ─ the concept of compensatory processing emphasizes the multi-dimensionality and dynamic nature of L2 reading development focuses on comprehension of upper-register literary texts balances theory and instructional practices. Filling the need for a coherent, theoretically consistent, and research-based portrait of how literate adolescents and adults comprehend, and learn to comprehend, at greater levels of sophistication and whether that ability can be enhanced by instruction, this is a must-have resource for reading and second-language researchers, students, and teachers.
Author : Ken Hyland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108470718
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Second Language Writing written by Ken Hyland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an accessible, comprehensive and practical introduction to current theory and research in second language writing and their classroom applications.
Author : Anat Prior
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889762963
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Modulators of Cross-Language Influences in Learning and Processing written by Anat Prior and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans-Jörg Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110214210
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Cognitive Pragmatics written by Hans-Jörg Schmid and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speakers tend to compose their utterances in such a way that the message they want to get across is hardly ever fully encoded by the meanings of the words and the grammar they use. Instead speakers rely on hearers adding conceptual and emotive content while interpreting the contextually appropriate meanings and intentions behind utterances. This insight, which is of course particularly relevant in all kinds of indirect, figurative or humorous talk, lies at the heart of the linguistic discipline of pragmatics. If pragmatics is the study of meaning-in-context, then cognitive pragmatics can be broadly defined as encompassing the study of the cognitive principles and processes involved in the construal of meaning-in-context. While it would seem only natural that pragmatics as such should have addressed such cognitive issues anyway, it has mainly been due to the historical rooting of this discipline in the philosophy of language that psychological aspects have not been in the pragmatic limelight to date. Being part of the 9-volume-series Handbooks of Pragmatics, this volume is the first to systematically survey this terrain from a wide range of perspectives. It collects state-of-the-art contributions by leading experts from the fields of pragmatics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical linguistics and historical linguistics. The volume is divided into four parts which tackle the following questions: Part I: The cognitive principles of pragmatic competence What are the general cognitive principles underlying pragmatic competence, i.e. the skill to arrive at context-dependent meanings of utterances? What are the cognitive underpinnings of language users' ability to compute or infer intended meanings in the role of hearers and to give hints as to how to decode intended meanings in the role of speakers? Part II: The psychology of pragmatics What are the actual cognitive processes taking place during online construal of meaning-in-context on the basis of encoded messages? How is pragmatic competence acquired in childhood? What are the types, sources and effects of pragmatic disorders, i.e. impairments of pragmatic competence? Part III: The construal of non-explicit and non-literal meaning-in-context What are the cognitive principles and processes involved in the construal of meanings of non-explicit and indirect utterances? How do we process figurative meanings, humour and gestures? Part IV: The emergence of linguistic structures from meaning-in-context What are the repercussions of the (repeated) construal of context-dependent meanings on linguistic structures and the linguistic system? How does the system change under the influence of the construal of meanings in social situations? Reduced series price (print) available! [email protected].
Author : Alice Omaggio Hadley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Research in Language Learning written by Alice Omaggio Hadley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James F. Lee
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781845532482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (324 download)
Download or read book Delivering Processing Instruction in Classrooms and in Virtual Contexts written by James F. Lee and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Processing Instruction (PI) is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning. It derives its name from the fact that the instruction (both the explicit explanation as well as the practices) attempt to influence, alter, and/or improve the way learners process input. PI contrasts with traditional grammar instruction in many ways, principally in its focus on the learner's input rather than their output. This book focuses on a new issue for PI, the role of technology in language learning. The authors compare empirically the differential effects of delivering PI in classrooms with an instructor and students interacting (with each other and with the instructor) with students working individually on computers. This book makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of research on the effects of PI on different languages, as well as different linguistic items: preterite/imperfect aspectual contrast and negative informal commands in Spanish, the subjunctive of doubt and opinion in Italian, and the subjunctive of doubt in French.
Author : Laurie J. Iudin-Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Songs in the L2 Syllabus written by Laurie J. Iudin-Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosalind Horowitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 042979570X
Total Pages : 915 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Writing written by Rosalind Horowitz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly research Handbook aggregates the broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research from scholars worldwide and brings them together into a common intellectual space. This is the first such international compilation. Now in its second edition, the Handbook inaugurates a wide scope of international research advancement, with attention to writing at all levels of schooling and in all life situations. It provides advanced surveys of scholarship on the histories of world and child writing and literacy; interconnections between writing, reading, and speech; digital writing; writing in communities; writing in the sciences and engineering; writing instruction and assessment; and writing and disability. A section on international measures for assessment of writing is a new addition to this compendium of research. This Handbook serves as a comprehensive resource for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in writing studies and rhetoric, composition, creative expression, education, and literacy studies.
Author : Elena L. Grigorenko
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1848728123
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (487 download)
Download or read book Writing written by Elena L. Grigorenko and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. It is an invaluable resource for researchers interested in language and cognition, and also educators and clinicians.
Author : John M. Norris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351863150
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Second Language Educational Experiences for Adult Learners written by John M. Norris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second Language Educational Experiences for Adult Learners provides an up-to-date review of the theory and practice of adult second language education. The primary objective is to introduce core ideas that should inform the design, development, and delivery of language learning experiences that take the typical forms of materials, courses, teaching, and assessment. Divided into three sections, the book first addresses what we know about adult second language acquisition and how individuals may acquire languages differently from each other. In the second section, key educational design elements—from pedagogical methods to curriculum to assessment—are then introduced from the perspective of research-based understandings about effective practices. Rounding out the volume is an overview of critical issues for language educational innovation, including supporting teachers, localizing materials and instruction, evaluating and improving education, and working with technology. Each chapter concludes with a set of recommended “design principles” that should guide readers toward high-quality, valuable, and empirically supported language educational experiences. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students investigating instructed language learning, designers creating useful language learning materials, and language teaching innovators seeking to improve outcomes in diverse instructional settings around the world.
