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Understanding Language eBook Series

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  • Understanding Second Language Acquisition

    by Lourdes Ortega ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • How Languages are Learned 4th edition

    by Lightbown, Patsy M., Spada, Nina ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers
    Teachers are often told that new teaching methods and materials are 'based on the latest research'. But what does this mean in practice? This book introduces you to some of the language acquisition research that will help you not just to evaluate existing materials, but also to adapt and use them in a way that fits what we currently understand about how languages are learned. ... Read more

    $51.59 USD

  • Visible Learning for Teachers

    Maximizing Impact on Learning

    by John Hattie ...
    In November 2008, John Hattie’s ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning.Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Bitten

    by Kelley Armstrong ...
    Series Book 1 - The Otherworld Series
    FROM THE AUTHOR OF HEMLOCK ISLAND--THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING OTHERWORLD SERIES“Frisky...Tells a rather sweet love story, and suggests that being a wolf may be more comfortable for a strong, smart woman than being human.”—The New York Times Book ReviewElena Michaels is the world’s only female werewolf. And she’s tired of it. Tired of a life spent hiding and protecting, a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Unbroken

    A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

    by Laura Hillenbrand ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Seabiscuit comes the incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption.“Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal**“Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Language and Cognition in Bilinguals and Multilinguals

    An Introduction

    by Annette M.B. de Groot ...
    Psycholinguistics – the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language – had a strong monolingual orientation during the first four decades following its emergence around 1950. The awareness that a large part of mankind speaks more than one language – that this may impact both on the way each ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Exploring Language Pedagogy through Second Language Acquisition Research

    by Rod Ellis, Natsuko Shintani ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics
    Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates. Titles in the series are also ideal for language professionals returning to academic study.The books take an innovative ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

    Edited by Susan M. Gass, Alison Mackey ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition brings together fifty leading international figures in the field to produce a state-of-the-art overview of Second Language Acquisition.The Handbook covers a wide range of topics related to Second Language Acquisition: language in context, linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic theories and perspectives, skill learning, individual ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Figurative Language

    by Eve Sweetser, Barbara Dancygier ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Understanding Developmental Language Disorders

    From Theory to Practice

    Edited by Courtenay Frazier Norbury, J. Bruce Tomblin, Dorothy V.M. Bishop ...
    Developmental language disorders (DLD) occur when a child fails to develop his or her native language often for no apparent reason. Delayed development of speech and/or language is one of the most common reasons for parents of preschool children to seek the advice of their family doctor. Although some children rapidly improve, others have more persistent language difficulties. These long-term ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Access to Language and Cognitive Development

    Edited by Michael Siegal, Luca Surian ...
    One of the most important questions about children's development involves how knowledge acquisition depends on the effect of language experience. To what extent, and in what ways, is a child's cognitive development influenced by their early experience of, and access to, language? Likewise, what are the effects on development of impaired access to language? This book is the first to confront ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Attitudes to Language

    by Peter Garrett ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
    Just about everyone seems to have views about language. Language attitudes and language ideologies permeate our daily lives. Our competence, intelligence, friendliness, trustworthiness, social status, group memberships, and so on, are often judged from the way we communicate. Even the speed at which we speak can evoke reactions. And we often try to anticipate such judgements as we communicate. In ... Read more

    $56.59 USD