Exploring Learner Language
Exploring Learner Language

Author: Elaine Tarone

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2009-07-02

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 9780194422918

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Gives you a unique 'hands-on' introduction to studying ESL learners' language using video interviews and footage of students doing language tasks Uses linked exercises in the book to guide you through the stages of analysing learners' language Provides full transcripts and an answer discussion section to help you to study and refer back to the input and explanations. Case study approach gives you the skills that will help you to explore learner language in your own classroom Recommended for TESOL Masters and Diploma students and language teacher educators

Exploring Spoken English Learner Language Using Corpora
Exploring Spoken English Learner Language Using Corpora

Author: Eric Friginal

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 3319599003

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This book presents a corpus-based study of spoken learner language produced by university-level ESL students in the classroom. Using contemporary theories as a guide and employing cutting-edge corpus analysis tools and methods, the authors analyse a variety of learner speech to offer many new insights into the nature and characteristics of the spoken language of college ESL learners. Focusing on types of speech that are rarely examined, this original work makes a significant contribution to the study and understanding of ESL spoken language at university level. It will appeal to students and scholars of applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and discourse analysis.

Exploring Psychology in Language Learning and Teaching
Exploring Psychology in Language Learning and Teaching

Author: Marion Williams

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0194423964

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This book explores key areas of educational and social psychology and considers their relevance to language learning and teaching, using activities and questions for reflection. The topics discussed in the book include: • learners’ and teachers’ beliefs about how a language should be learned and taught • learning and working in groups • relationships with others • the role of the self in teaching and learning • motivation to start and persist with tasks • the role of emotions in learning. The authors provide useful insights for the understanding of language learning and discuss the important implications for language teaching pedagogy. Extra resources are available on the website: www.oup.com/elt/teacher/exploringpsychology Marion Williams was formerly Reader in Applied Linguistics at the University of Exeter and is a past president of IATEFL. Sarah Mercer is Professor of Foreign Language Teaching at the University of Graz, Austria. Stephen Ryan is Professor in the School of Economics at Senshu University, Tokyo.

Exploring Translation in Language Learning
Exploring Translation in Language Learning

Author: Malgorzata Smentek

Publisher: Gdansk Studies in Language

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783631641354

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This book provides a historical overview of approaches to translation in language education. It explores the functions and scope of translation in the L2 classroom. Translation, as a valid resource and an indispensable skill in today's multilingual communication, should become an integral element of contemporary foreign language learning.

Exploring Innovative Pedagogy in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language
Exploring Innovative Pedagogy in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language

Author: Robyn Moloney

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-11-07

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 981287772X

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Teachers of Chinese as a foreign language in many international contexts are searching for pedagogic solutions to promote effective learning. Models of innovative and successful approaches are urgently needed. This volume presents a collection of compelling and empirically rich research studies that showcases innovative developments in the practice of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. The studies focus on three interrelated areas: learners, teachers, and applications of new technologies. Specifically, the studies explore methods for fostering learner-centred classrooms, autonomous learners, intercultural learning, the role of teacher views and identities, the nature of a ‘middle ground’ approach, and technologies that accommodate the unique aspects of the Chinese language, with new options for mobile and interactive learners. Providing both inspiration and practical models for language practitioners and researchers, it offers a vital resource for teachers’ professional development, and for pre-service teacher education.

Learning-to-write and Writing-to-learn in an Additional Language
Learning-to-write and Writing-to-learn in an Additional Language

Author: Rosa Manchón

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 9027213038

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Bridges the gap between the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and second and foreign language (L2) writing. This title intends to advance our understanding of written language learning by collecting theoretical meta-reflections and empirical studies that shed light on two crucial dimensions of the theory and research in the field

The Developing Language Learner
The Developing Language Learner

Author: Dick Allwright

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-28

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0230233694

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This book-length treatment of Exploratory Practice introduces five propositions about learners as practitioners of learning who are capable of developing their expertise through conducting research in and on their own classroom learning lives.

Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose
Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose

Author: Mick Short

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1317887808

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Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carying out stylistic analysis of poetry, drama and prose fiction in turn. He analyses a wide range of extracts from English literature, adopting an accessible approach to the analysis of literary texts which can be applied easily to other texts in English and in other languages.

Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes
Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes

Author: Joybrato Mukherjee

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011-05-25

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9027223203

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The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes and second-language varieties are typically non-native forms of English that emerge in language contact situations, it is high time that they are described and compared on an empirical basis in order to draw conceptual and theoretical conclusions with regard to their form, function and acquisition. The present collection of articles places special emphasis on empirical evidence obtained from large-scale analyses of computerised corpora of learner Englishes (such as the International Corpus of Learner English) and of second-language varieties of English (such as the International Corpus of English). It addresses questions such as ‘Are the phenomena we find in ESL and EFL varieties features or errors?’ or ‘How common and wide-spread are features across contact varieties of English?’