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Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)
This book analyses the development of academic literacy in
low-proficiency users of English in the Middle East. It highlights
the challenges faced by students entering undergraduate education
in the region, and the strategies used by teachers to overcome
them. The author focuses on a large-scale undergraduate teacher
programme run in Oman by the University of Leeds, providing clear
pointers both for future research and effective practice. He also
explores the implications of his findings for countries beyond the
Gulf Cooperation Council, demonstrating how international
participation in UK HE could be much wider. This book will appeal
to students and scholars with an interest in academic literacies
and English for Academic Purposes.
Collins CSEC® French Workbook supports the Student’s Book by
providing additional material for skills development and language
practice. Following the structure of the Student’s Book, the
Workbook gives students the opportunity to practise the grammar and
vocabulary of each topic-based unit, as well as reading, writing
and speaking skills. Each unit comprises a variety of exercises
carefully designed to consolidate and reinforce language learning,
as well as provide stretch and extra challenge. Additional writing
and speaking practice in exam-style activities is also provided.
The Workbook can be used in class or at home, and activities are
equally suitable for extension work in class or as exercises set
for homework.
This book examines the role of experience-based learning on
children's acquisition of language and concepts. It reviews,
compares, and contrasts accounts of how the opportunity to
recognize and generalize patterns influences learning. The book
offers the first systematic integration of three highly influential
research traditions in the domains of language and concept
acquisition: Statistical Learning, Structural Alignment, and the
Bayesian learning perspective. Chapters examine the parameters that
constrain learning, address conditions that optimize learning, and
offer explanations for cases in which implicit exemplar-based
learning fails to occur. By exploring both the benefits and
challenges children face as they learn from multiple examples, the
book offers insight on how to better able to understand children's
early unsupervised learning about language and concepts. Topics
featured in this book include: Competing models of statistical
learning and how learning might be constrained by infants'
developing cognitive abilities. How experience with multiple
exemplars helps infants understand space and other relations. The
emergence of category-based inductive reasoning during infancy and
early childhood. How children learn individual verbs and the verb
system over time. How statistical learning leads to aggregation and
abstraction in word learning. Mechanisms for evaluating others'
reliability as sources of knowledge when learning new words. The
Search for Invariance (SI) hypothesis and its role in facilitating
causal learning. Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy
Through Childhood is an essential resource for researchers,
clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in
infancy and early child development, applied linguistics, language
education, child, school, and developmental psychology and related
mental health and education services.
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Julieann Wallace; Illustrated by Julieann Wallace
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Volcanic Reflections: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary
Ecuadorian Poetry is the third in a series of books that aspires to
address a dearth of information in the English-speaking world about
South American poetry of the past thirty years. The nineteen
outstanding poets included here represent a wide diversity of
themes, styles, and perspectives in one of South America's smaller
nations. All of them have published extensively, have been
recognized through literary awards and inclusion in national and
international anthologies, and continue writing and publishing
today. For readers unfamiliar with Ecuador, the Introduction
provides a brief background of its geography, history, politics,
economy, and society. This is followed by an ample selection of
representative poems published previously in Spanish, with
translations in English on facing pages. The book concludes with a
brief biographical sketch of each poet and an unprecedented
bibliography of primary and secondary sources for those readers who
might want to pursue further reading or research on any poet of
interest. Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology and
Exotic Territory: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Paraguayan
Anthology are two companion volumes that offer similar exposure to
poetry that deserves to be better known in the English-speaking
world.
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