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Understanding Language eBook Series

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  • Understanding Second Language Acquisition

    by Lourdes Ortega ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages ... Read more

    $84.13 CAD

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  • How Languages are Learned 4th edition

    by Lightbown, Patsy M., Spada, Nina ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers
    Teachers are often told that new teaching methods and materials are 'based on the latest research'. But what does this mean in practice? This book introduces you to some of the language acquisition research that will help you not just to evaluate existing materials, but also to adapt and use them in a way that fits what we currently understand about how languages are learned. ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD

  • Visible Learning for Teachers

    Maximizing Impact on Learning

    by John Hattie ...
    In November 2008, John Hattie’s ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning.Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Unbroken

    A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

    by Laura Hillenbrand ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Seabiscuit comes the incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption.“Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal**“Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

    Edited by Susan M. Gass, Alison Mackey ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition brings together fifty leading international figures in the field to produce a state-of-the-art overview of Second Language Acquisition.The Handbook covers a wide range of topics related to Second Language Acquisition: language in context, linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic theories and perspectives, skill learning, individual ... Read more

    $108.56 CAD

  • Figurative Language

    by Eve Sweetser, Barbara Dancygier ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • Language and Music as Cognitive Systems

    Edited by Patrick Rebuschat, Martin Rohrmeier, John A. Hawkins, Ian Cross ...
    The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems. Language and music are uniquely human traits, so it is not surprising that this interest spans practically all branches of cognitive science, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and education. Underlying the study of language and ... Read more

    $121.59 CAD

  • Discourse Analysis and Applications

    Studies in Adult Clinical Populations

    Edited by Ronald L. Bloom, Loraine K. Obler, Susan De Santi, Jonathan S. Ehrlich ...
    Application of analytic discourse techniques to clinical practice is relatively recent. This book's contributors begin with the notion that systematic examination of discourse provides a rich source of data for describing the complex relationships among language, social context, and the cognitive processes that underlie discourse comprehension and production. Evidence is provided that when ... Read more

    $108.56 CAD

  • Lexical Errors and Accuracy in Foreign Language Writing

    by María del Pilar Agustín Llach ...
    Series Book 58 - Second Language Acquisition
    Lexical errors are a determinant in gaining insight into vocabulary acquisition, vocabulary use and writing quality assessment. Lexical errors are very frequent in the written production of young EFL learners, but they decrease as learners gain proficiency. Misspellings are the most common category, but formal errors give way to semantic-based lexical errors as proficiency increases, likewise, the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Information Structure

    Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives

    Edited by Malte Zimmermann, Caroline Féry ...
    In this book leading scholars provide state-of-the-art overviews of approaches to the formal expression of information structure in natural language and its interaction with general principles of human cognition and communication. They present critical accounts of current understanding of how aspects of grammar, such as prosody, syntax, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics, interact in the ... Read more

    $118.39 CAD

  • Phonological Processes in Literacy

    A Tribute to Isabelle Y. Liberman

    Edited by Susan A. Brady, Donald P. Shankweiler ...
    This impressive volume contains the edited proceedings of a symposium held in honor of Isabelle Y. Liberman, whose teaching and writings laid the foundation for contemporary views of reading disability. Her work has influenced ways of thinking about the nature of the problem and ways of working with children and adults who experience unusual difficulty in learning to read. The symposium covered ... Read more

    $203.58 CAD

  • Demotivation in Second Language Acquisition

    Insights from Japan

    by Keita Kikuchi ...
    Series Book 90 - Second Language Acquisition
    SLA literature tends to focus predominantly on what motivates language learners, but what demotivates them has not been widely discussed. This book, focusing exclusively on demotivation, will help readers to understand motivational issues from a different perspective. The aims of the work are threefold: to present the current developments of demotivation research in the field of SLA and bridge ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD