Philosophy manual: a South-South perspective
Author: Chanthalangsy, Phinith
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2014-12-31
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9231010069
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Smaller, Quicker, Cheaper
Author: Daniel A. Wagner
Publisher: United Nations Education, Scientific & Cultural Organization
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe effective use of educational assessments is fundamental to improving learning. However, effective use does not refer only to the technical parameters or statistical methodologies. Learning assessments in use todaywhether large-scale or household surveys or hybrid (smaller, quicker, cheaper or SQC)have varied uses and purposes. The present volume provides a review of learning assessments, their status in terms of the empirical knowledge base, and some new ideas for improving their effectiveness, particularly for those children most in need. It is argued here that SQC learning assessments have the potential to enhance educational accountability, increase transparency, and support a greater engagement of stakeholders with an interest in improving learning. In addition, countries need a sustained policy to guide assessment choices, including a focus on poor and marginalized populations.
Translation and Meaning
Author: Marcel Thelen
Publisher: Lodz Studies in Language
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783631663905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents new and innovative ideas on the didactics of translation and interpreting. They include assessment methods and criteria, assessment of competences, graduate employability, placements, skills labs, the perceived skills gap between training and profession, the teaching of terminology, and curriculum design.
Assessing Multilingual Children
Author: Sharon Armon-Lotem
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1783093129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecond language learners often produce language forms resembling those of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). At present, professionals working in language assessment and education have only limited diagnostic instruments to distinguish language impaired migrant children from those who will eventually catch up with their monolingual peers. This book presents a comprehensive set of tools for assessing the linguistic abilities of bilingual children. It aims to disentangle effects of bilingualism from those of SLI, making use of both models of bilingualism and models of language impairment. The book's methods-oriented focus will make it an essential handbook for practitioners who look for measures which could be adapted to a variety of languages in diverse communities, as well as academic researchers.
Input and Interaction in Language Acquisition
Author: Clare Gallaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-04-14
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521437257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLanguage addressed to children, or 'Baby Talk', became the subject of research interest thirty years ago. Since then, the linguistic environment of infants and toddlers has been widely studied. Input and Interaction in Language Acquisition is an up-to-date statement of the facts and controversies surrounding 'Baby Talk', its nature and likely effects. With contributions from leading linguists and psychologists, it explores language acquisition in different cultures and family contexts, in typical and atypical learners, and in second and foreign language learners. It is designed as a sequel to the now famous Talking to Children, edited by Catherine Snow and Charles Ferguson, and Professor Snow here provides an introduction, comparing issues of importance in the field today with the previous concerns of researchers.
Contemporary Criminological Issues
Author: Carolyn Côté-Lussier
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0776628720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary Criminological Issues tackles some of today’s most pressing social issues, from the criminalization of Indigenous peoples to interpersonal violence, border control, and armed conflicts. This book advances cutting-edge theories and methods, with the aim of moving beyond the scholarship that reproduces insecurity and exclusion. The breadth of approaches encompasses much of the current critical criminological scholarship, serving as a counterpoint to the growth of managerial and administrative criminologies and the rise of explicitly exclusionary and punitive state policies and practices with respect to ‘crime’ and ‘security.’ This edited collection featuring two books, one in English and one in French, includes important contributions to knowledge and public policy by eminent experts and emerging scholars. This book is published in English.
Practice Tests for Cambridge PET for Schools Student Book
Author: Cengage Learning
Publisher: Cengage Learning Emea
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781408061527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCambridge English for Schools Practice Tests have been designed to familiarise students with the level and format of the Cambridge English Key, Preliminary and First (previously known as KET, PET and FCE) for Schools examinations. Students can be assured that they will receive the relevant, up-to-date, appropriate training to successfully undertake these tests. The guidance and tips sections advise students on how to approach each part of the examination and allow them to improve the skills required.
Approaches to Phonological Complexity
Author: François Pellegrino
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 3110223945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraws on an interdisciplinary sketch of the phonetics-phonology interface in the light of complexity.
Contrast in Phonology
Author: Peter Avery
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-11-03
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 3110208601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book takes contrast, an issue that has been central to phonological theory since Saussure, as its central theme, making explicit its importance to phonological theory, perception, and acquisition. The volume brings together a number of different contemporary approaches to the theory of contrast, including chapters set within more abstract representation-based theories, as well as chapters that focus on functional phonetic theories and perceptual constraints. This book will be of interest to phonologists, phoneticians, psycholinguists, researchers in first and second language acquisition, and cognitive scientists interested in current thinking on this exciting topic.
Constraints in Phonological Acquisition
Author: René Kager
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-01-15
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1139450190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis outstanding 2004 volume presents an overview of linguistic research into the acquisition of phonology. Bringing together well-known researchers in the field, it focuses on constraints in phonological acquisition (as opposed to rules), and offers concrete examples of the formalization of phonological development in terms of constraint ranking. The first two chapters situate the research in its broader context, with an introduction by the editors providing a brief general tutorial on Optimality Theory. Chapter two serves to highlight the history of constraints in studies of phonological development, which predates their current ascent to prominence in phonological theory. The remaining chapters address a number of partially overlapping themes: the study of child production data in terms of constraints, learnability issues, perceptual development and its relation to the development of production, and second-language acquisition.
