The Language of Learning
The Language of Learning

Author: Margaret Berry Wilson

Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools, Inc.

Published: 2014-02-26

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1892989611

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Your essential guide for teaching core competencies that every child needs for developing into a highly engaged, self-motivated learner. The Language of Learning offers a practical approach to teaching essential communication skills: Listening and understanding; Thinking before speaking; Speaking clearly and concisely; Asking thoughtful questions; Giving high-quality answers; Backing up opinions with reasons and evidence; Agreeing thoughtfully; Disagreeing respectfully.

The Loom of Language
The Loom of Language

Author: Frederick Bodmer

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 9780393300345

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Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.

Language Acquisition Made Practical
Language Acquisition Made Practical

Author: Tom Brewster

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13:

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It can be done! You can successfully learn a new language if three conditions are met: 1. You live where the new language is spoken. 2. You are motivated to learn the new language. 3. You know how to proceed with language learning, step-by-step and day-by-day. This manual assumes that the first and second conditions are met. It is a simple guide planned to help you, the learner, proceed without boredom or frustration, through manageable steps, so that you can become proficient in your new language. The objective of this manual is to help guide you in your daily activities of language learning. - Preface.

Second Language Learning and Language Teaching
Second Language Learning and Language Teaching

Author: Vivian Cook

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1134683227

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Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the application of second language acquisition research to language teaching. Assuming no previous background in second language acquisition or language teaching methods, this text starts by introducing readers to the basic issues of second language acquisition research. It then examines how people learn particular aspects of the second language, such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and the writing system, and at the strategies they adopt in their learning and the differences between individuals. Final chapters look at second language learning in a broader context – the goals of language teaching and how teaching methods relate to SLA research. This newly updated fifth edition builds on the comprehensive scope of earlier editions while also addressing more recent developments in the field, particularly multilingual approaches to language teaching.

Language and Learning
Language and Learning

Author: James Britton

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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Language and Learning is a rich and moving account of how children learn to talk and the role of speech in cognitive development.

Language and Learning in the Digital Age
Language and Learning in the Digital Age

Author: James Paul Gee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1136825665

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In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator Elisabeth Hayes deal with the forces unleashed by today’s digital media, forces that are transforming language and learning for good and ill. They argue that the role of oral language is almost always entirely misunderstood in debates about digital media. Like the earlier inventions of writing and print, digital media actually power up or enhance the powers of oral language. Gee and Hayes deal, as well, with current digital transformations of language and literacy in the context of a growing crisis in traditional schooling in developed countries. With the advent of new forms of digital media, children are increasingly drawn towards video games, social media, and alternative ways of learning. Gee and Hayes explore the way in which these alternative methods of learning can be a force for a paradigm change in schooling. This is an engaging, accessible read both for undergraduate and graduate students and for scholars in language, linguistics, education, media and communication studies.

Language Learning Beyond the Classroom
Language Learning Beyond the Classroom

Author: David Nunan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-01-30

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1134675739

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This volume presents case studies of language learning beyond the classroom. The studies draw on a wide range of contexts, from North and South America to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Each provides principled links between theory, research and practice. While out-of-class learning will not replace the classroom, ultimately all successful learners take control of their own learning. This book shows how teachers can help learners bridge the gap between formal instruction and autonomous language learning. Although English is the primary focus of most chapters, there are studies on a range of other languages including Spanish and Japanese.

Polyglot: How I Learn Languages
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

Author: Kat— Lomb

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1606437062

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KAT LOMB (1909-2003) was one of the great polyglots of the 20th century. A translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world, Lomb worked in 16 languages for state and business concerns in her native Hungary. She achieved further fame by writing books on languages, interpreting, and polyglots. Polyglot: How I Learn Languages, first published in 1970, is a collection of anecdotes and reflections on language learning. Because Dr. Lomb learned her languages as an adult, after getting a PhD in chemistry, the methods she used will be of particular interest to adult learners who want to master a foreign language.

Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching
Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching

Author: Carl S. Blyth

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2021-02-03

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1800411014

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Compared with STEM fields, foreign language (FL) education and second language acquisition have only slowly embraced open education and the new knowledge ecologies it produces. FL educators may have been hesitant to participate in the open education movement due to a lack of research which investigates the benefits and challenges of FL learning and teaching in open environments. This book contextualizes open education in FL learning and teaching via an historical overview of the movement, along with an in-depth exploration of how the open movement affects FL education beyond the classroom context; fills the research void by exploring aspects of open second language learning and teaching across a range of educational contexts; and illustrates new ways of creating, adapting and curating FL materials that are freely shared among FL educators and students. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.