Aspects of Modern Language Teaching in Europe

Aspects of Modern Language Teaching in Europe

Author: Wolf Gewehr

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-03-11

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1134691009

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From the teaching of grammar to the teaching of literature; from classroom teaching to independent learning; from role-playing to CAL - few books on teaching languages cover such a wide field. In this book teaching experience and research from practitioners in four European countries throw new light on old problems faced every day, while others reveal innovative teaching methods and new insights into how teachers and learners interact. Sections include: *language learning strategies and computer-assisted language learning *facilitating individual progress through autonomous learning *how to bring a foreign country alive in the classroom *de-mythologising grammar teaching *how different types of dictionaries can make valuable contributions to language teaching *teaching and using idiomatic phrases.


11 Linguistischen Kolloquiums

11 Linguistischen Kolloquiums

Author: Konrad Sprengel

Publisher: ISSN

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues in synchrony and diachrony, theoretically or empirically oriented.


The Acquisition of German Modal Particles

The Acquisition of German Modal Particles

Author: Martina Möllering

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9783039100439

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Following the rationale that corpora have an important part to play in fostering language awareness, this monograph investigates the use of spoken corpora in the teaching of German as a foreign language. Corpus-based research has had an increasing influence on language teaching pedagogy, with regard to linguistic content as well as to teaching methodology. While the majority of studies reporting on corpus-based teaching approaches refer to English, only a small number of studies have discussed such an approach for German. In this study, the exploitation of language corpora is proposed in order to arrive at authentic teaching materials which facilitate the comprehension of German modal particles, which pose numerous problems for learners of German as a foreign language. The approach is twofold: first, the frequency of those word forms which may function as modal particles is established. Secondly, concordance data of the more frequently occurring particles are analysed qualitatively. Teaching materials based on these analyses are developed referring to patterns of use which can be relayed to language learners in order to provide them with tools for the decoding of particle meaning.


Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics

Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics

Author: Werner Abraham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1108861083

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What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression: word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. This state of the art survey proposes a new model of modality, drawing on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic languages to find out what is cross-linguistically universal about modality, and to argue that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.


Satzverknüpfungen

Satzverknüpfungen

Author: Eva Breindl

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 3110234351

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Das Thema Satzverknüpfung hat sich in den letzten Jahren in der Linguistik als wichtiges Thema für die Beschreibung der Schnittstellen zwischen den verschiedenen Bereichen im Rahmen einer modularen Sprachauffassung etabliert. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert theoretisch und methodisch unterschiedliche Herangehensweisen und unterschiedliche Teilaspekte des Themas. Er versammelt Beiträge aus sprachgeschichtlicher, syntaktischer, diskurssemantischer, lexikalischer und korpuslinguistischer Perspektive und ermöglicht auf diese Weise Einsichten in das Funktionieren des Zusammenhangs zwischen den Ebenen.


Papers in Translation Studies

Papers in Translation Studies

Author: Sattar Izwaini

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1443876879

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This book presents cutting-edge research in translation studies, offering stimulating discussions on translation and providing fresh perspectives on the field. Papers in Translation Studies features a selection of papers originally authored for this volume, addressing a variety of issues from different points of view and offering interesting contributions to the critical literature of the field. The volume provides useful resources that will be of great benefit for academics, students and practitioners. The contributions to this book promote research on translation theory and practice, and suggest ways of dealing with translation problems. The volume chapters are written by researchers from around the world, and consider various different languages and contexts. Areas of investigation include contrastive linguistics and translation, corpus-based translation studies, natural language processing, machine translation, and translator training.