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Second Language Acquisition eBook Series

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  • Pronunciation in EFL Instruction

    A Research-Based Approach

    by Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska ...
    Series Book 82 - Second Language Acquisition
    In view of recent debates on the global spread of English and its international lingua franca role, what pronunciation models are appropriate for millions of EFL learners? Which aspects of English phonetics should be taught to foreign students and which can be neglected with little loss to successful communication? How can English pronunciation be taught in an interesting and effective way which ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • The Phonetic Guide to French

    Learn French in About a Year

    by Matthew Lawry ...
    This book is about learning the phrases and sentences and getting to grips with saying the language, without going into the grammar first. In that way you can have fun in learning how to say certain things and also you do not come up against stumbling blocks and frustrations.The idea behind this thinking was because when I was a child my parents used to tell me words before they taught me how to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Prosodic Categories: Production, Perception and Comprehension

    Edited by Sónia Frota, Gorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Located at the intersection of phonology, psycholinguistics and phonetics, this volume offers the latest research findings in key areas of prosodic theory, including:•The relationship between intonation and pragmatics in speech production•Sentence modality prosody characterization•The role of pitch in quantity-based sound systems•Consonant-conditioned tone depression phonology across languages•The ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning

    A Sociocultural Perspective

    by Leo van Lier ...
    Series Book 3 - Educational Linguistics
    In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Beliefs, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

    by Paula Kalaja, Ana Maria F. Barcelos, Mari Aro, Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty ...
    This book explores the phenomena of believing (or giving personal meanings), acting, and identifying (or identity construction), and the interconnectedness of these phenomena in the learning and teaching of English and other foreign languages. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Glocal English

    The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World

    by Farooq A. Kperogi ...
    Series Book 96 - Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
    Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world’s two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world’s fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the unrelenting ubiquity of the Nigerian (English-language) movie industry in Africa and the Black Atlantic Diaspora. Using contemporary ... Read more

    $101.39 USD

  • Second Language Pronunciation Assessment

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Talia Isaacs, Pavel Trofimovich ...
    Series Book 107 - Second Language Acquisition
    This book is open access under a CC BY licence. It spans the areas of assessment, second language acquisition (SLA) and pronunciation and examines topical issues and challenges that relate to formal and informal assessments of second language (L2) speech in classroom, research and real-world contexts. It showcases insights from assessing other skills (e.g. listening and writing) and highlights ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • Language Learnability and L2 Phonology

    The Acquisition of Metrical Parameters

    by J. Archibald ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In this book Archibald describes two studies conducted within a parametric framework in the area of second language acquisition. The studies are designed to investigate the acquisition of English stress patterns (via both production and perception tasks) by adult speakers of Polish and Hungarian. Archibald argues that interlanguage grammars can be understood as a mix of L1 transfer and the effects ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sociocultural Theory and L2 Instructional Pragmatics

    by Rémi A. van Compernolle ...
    Series Book 74 - Second Language Acquisition
    Winner of the AAAL First Book Award 2017!This book outlines a framework for teaching second language pragmatics grounded in Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. The framework focuses on the appropriation of sociopragmatic concepts as psychological tools that mediate pragmalinguistic choices. Using multiple sources of metalinguistic and performance data collected during a six-week pedagogical ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • How to start, carry on and end conversations

    Scripts for social situations for people on the autism spectrum

    by Paul Jordan ...
    Do you find it hard to make friends? Do you struggle to know what to say to start a conversation?In this book, Paul Jordan, who is on the autism spectrum, explains how to make sense of everyday social situations you might encounter at school, university or in other group settings. He reveals how, with the use of just 65 simple words, it is possible to create 'scripts for thinking' that break ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Reading Development and Difficulties in Monolingual and Bilingual Chinese Children

    Edited by Xi Chen, Qiuying Wang, Yang Cathy Luo ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume explores Chinese reading development, focusing on children in Chinese societies and bilingual Chinese-speaking children in Western societies. The book is structured around four themes: psycholinguistic study of reading, reading disability, bilingual and biliteracy development, and Chinese children’s literature. It discusses issues that are pertinent to improving language and literacy ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition

    Edited by Rosa Alonso Alonso ...
    Series Book 95 - Second Language Acquisition
    This volume provides an unprecedented insight into current approaches to crosslinguistic influence (CLI). The collection investigates a range of themes including linguistic relativity, the possible contributions of neurolinguistics, the problem of cognitive development and the role of the frequency of structures in acquisition from distinct, overlapping and complementary perspectives. Chapters ... Read more

    $23.79 USD