Analysing Learner Language
Author: Rod Ellis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-04-14
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReadership: Graduate students, teachers, researchers in Applied Linguistics
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Learner Language and Language Learning
Author: Claus Færch
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive introduction to foreign language pedagogy, primarily intended for students and teachers of English. Methods for analysing learner languages are presented and related to a coherent theory of communicative competence and to principles of foreign language learning and teaching.
Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning
Author: Ping Deters
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1783092890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough several unique perspectives and contexts, this volume contributes to current understanding of agency in second language learning. It includes chapters discussing theoretical, analytical and pedagogical approaches, and will serve as a key reference for researchers of language learning and teaching.
The Study of Second Language Acquisition
Author: Rod Ellis
Publisher: Oxford University
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 836
ISBN-13: 9780194371896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn up to date comprehensive introduction to second language acqusition research. Contains a general framework for the study of second language acquisition, provides a general description of learner language, accounts for the role of the linguistic environment, examines the learner's internal mechanisms, explores individual differences in language learning and reviews the expanding research on classroom second language acquisition.
Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy
Author: Rod Ellis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-01-17
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1118291379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines current research centered on the second language classroom and the implications of this research for both the teaching and learning of foreign languages. It offers illuminating insights into the important relationship between research and teaching, and the inherent complexities of the teaching and learning of foreign languages in classroom settings. Offers an accessible overview of a range of research on instruction and learning in the L2 classroom Bridges the relationship between research, teachers, and learners Helps evolve the practice of dedicated current language teachers with research findings that suggest best practices for language teaching
Exploring Spoken English Learner Language Using Corpora
Author: Eric Friginal
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 3319599003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Struggle to Teach English as an International Language
Author: Adrian Holliday
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-09-27
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0194423085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the worlds and conflicts of TESOL teachers and researchers whose professional lives are both enriched and problematized by the cultural and political interfaces created by working with an international language. Central to this discussion is the balance of power in classroom and curriculum settings, the relationship between language, culture, and discourse, and the change in the ownership of English.
Fossilized Second Language Grammars
Author: Florencia Franceschina
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9789027252982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language acquisition. Couched within a generative framework, the study explores how a learner's first language and the age at which they acquire their second language may contribute to the L2 knowledge that they can ultimately attain. The empirical study focuses on a group of very advanced L2 speakers, and through a series of tests aims to discover what underpins their near mastery of grammatical gender and other grammatical properties. The book explores an account of persistent selective divergence based on the idea that child and adult learners are fundamentally similar, except that in adults the L1 plays the role of a fairly rigid filter of the linguistic input. The impossibility of representing the new target language other than by using the building blocks of the previously established L1 is argued to be the main reason why near but not totally native like language representations are formed and become established in adult L2 learners.
Error Analysis
Author: Jack C. Richards
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-14
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1317869575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eleven essays in this book cover a wide range of topics from the role of 'interlanguage' and the influence of external factors on the process of language learning, to the development of syntax and the methodology of error analysis. Collectively they provide a valuable perspective on the learning process, which both enriches our theoretical understanding of the processes underlying second language acquisition and suggests ways in which teaching practice may best exploit a learner's skills.
Language Learning, Discourse and Communication
Author: Weronika Szubko-Sitarek
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-10-29
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 3319004190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together papers on a wide spectrum of topics within the broad area of language acquisition, stressing the interconnections between applied and theoretical linguistics, as well as language research methodology. These contributions in honor of Professor Jan Majer have been grouped in two sections: language learning, and discourse and communication. The former discusses issues varying from aspects of first, second, and third language acquisition, individual learner differences (i.e. gender, attitudes, learning strategies), and second language research methodology to the analysis of features of learner spoken language, the role of feedback in foreign language instruction, and the position of culture in EFL textbooks. The second part of the volume offers a theoretical counterbalance to the applied nature of the first one. Here, the contributions touch upon spoken and written language analysis, language awareness, and aspects of the English language; also, selected issues of language philosophy are discussed. The wide range of topics covered in the publication, authored by specialists in their respective areas, reflects Professor Majer’s academic interests and corresponds to the complex nature of the general field the volume aims to portray.
