Look, I Can Talk!
Look, I Can Talk!

Author: Blaine Ray

Publisher: Sky Oaks Productions, Incorporated

Published: 1990-11-01

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781560184560

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Step-by-step, Blaine Ray shows you how to tell a story with physical actions.Next, your students tell the story to each other in their own words using the target language. They then act it out, write it and read it. Each Student Book for Level 1 comes in your choice of English, Spanish, French or German and has 12 main stories 24 additional action-packed picture stories Many options for retelling each story Reading and writing exercises galore. Blaine personally guarantees that each of your students will eagerly tell stories in the target language by using the Student Book."

TPRS with Chinese Characteristics
TPRS with Chinese Characteristics

Author: Terry Waltz

Publisher:

Published: 2015-05-27

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780692442906

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Have you read or heard about TPRS, but don't quite know where to begin? A little hesitant about teaching a "hard" language like Chinese using Comprehensible Input? TPRS with Chinese Characteristics summarizes fifteen years of teaching Chinese using TPRS/CI. Focused on classroom practice, the book presents tested, effective strategies and skills that will allow you to leave the myth of Chinese as a "difficult" language far behind your students. From tones, Pinyin, and reading instruction to writing prompts and output, TPRS with Chinese Characteristics fills in the gap between "traditional" Spanish- and French-focused TPRS training and the special challenges faced by students of Chinese.

Revitalizing Endangered Languages
Revitalizing Endangered Languages

Author: Justyna Olko

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-01-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 110862443X

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Of the approximately 7,000 languages in the world, at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of the twenty-first century. Languages are endangered by a number of factors, including globalization, education policies, and the political, economic and cultural marginalization of minority groups. This guidebook provides ideas and strategies, as well as some background, to help with the effective revitalization of endangered languages. It covers a broad scope of themes including effective planning, benefits, wellbeing, economic aspects, attitudes and ideologies. The chapter authors have hands-on experience of language revitalization in many countries around the world, and each chapter includes a wealth of examples, such as case studies from specific languages and language areas. Clearly and accessibly written, it is suitable for non-specialists as well as academic researchers and students interested in language revitalization. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies
The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies

Author: Zhengdao Ye

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-07-30

Total Pages: 1032

ISBN-13: 9811609241

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This new major reference work provides a comprehensive overview of linguistic phenomena in a variety of Sinitic languages in a global context, highlighting the dynamic interaction between these languages and English. This “living reference work” offers a window into the linguistic sphere in China and beyond, and showcases the latest research into diverse and evolving linguistic phenomena that have resulted from intensified interactions between the Sinophone world and other lingua-spheres. The Handbook is divided into five sections. The chapters in Section I (New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistic Research) present fast-growing research areas in Chinese linguistics, particularly those undertaken by scholars based in China. Section II (Interactions of Sinitic Languages) focuses on language-contact situations inside and outside China. The chapters in Section III (Meaning, Culture, Translation) explore the meanings of key cultural concepts, and how ideas move between Chinese and English through translation across various genres. Section IV (New Trends in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) covers new ideas and practices relating to teaching the Chinese language and culture. The final section, Section V (Transference from Chinese to English), explores dynamic interactions between varieties of Chinese and varieties of English, as they play out in multilingual sites and settings

Writing Under the Raj
Writing Under the Raj

Author: Nancy L. Paxton

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780813526010

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Examining the rhetoric of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Paxton shows how it reflects basic concepts in the social and sexual contracts defining the women's relationship to the nation state.