Author: James E. AlatisPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589018501
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1990: Linguistics, Language Teaching and Language Acquisition
Author: James E. AlatisPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589018501
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1999: Language in Our Time
Author: James E. AlatisPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589018549
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Marking the return — after a two-year hiatus — of this annual collection of essays on linguistics and language education, the 1999 volume speaks to the most pressing social issues of our time. More than thirty contributors from around the world take up longstanding debates about language diversity, language standardization, and language policy. They tackle such controversial issues as the Official English movement, bilingual education, and ideological struggles over African American Vernacular English.
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1992: Language, Communication, and Social Meaning
Author: James E. AlatisPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589018518
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
This volume, based on the forty-third annual Georgetown University Round Table, covers a variety of topics ranging from the relationship of language and philosophy; through language policy; to discourse analysis.
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1996: Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation
Author: James E. AlatisPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589018532
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This volume examines linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation, emphasizing their implications for teacher education and language education. A majority of the essays consider issues in second language acquisition, dealing specifically with learners and instructors, or concentrating on the larger social and societal context in which learning and acquisition occur. Topics highlighted include the current and often controversial debate over bilingual education, language variation, and the past, present, and future role of linguistics in language pedagogy.
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1991: Linguistics and Language Pedagogy
Author: James E. AlatisPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589018136
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1993: Strategic Interaction and Language Acquisition
Author: James E. AlatisPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589018525
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The papers in this volume examine strategies for language acquisition and language teaching, focusing on applications of the strategic interaction method.
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1994: Educational Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Interdependence
Author: James E. AlatisPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589018143
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The essays in this volume explore communication across cultures using an interdisciplinary approach to language teaching and learning, mediated by the growing field of educational linguistics. Topics include the use of English as a medium of wider communication and the growth of national varieties of English throughout the world. An international array of distinguished contributors includes scholars from China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the United States. This collection suggests that language diversity is a unifying force in a globally interdependent world.
Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics
Author: Anne BarronPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9781588113429
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Longitudinal investigation which provides the basic material for this book consists of a corpus of requests, offers and refusals of offers elicited from Irish learners of German over a ten-month study abroad period using production questionnaires and a variety of metapragmatic instruments.
New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies
Author: Álvaro RochaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030161870
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
This book includes a selection of articles from The 2019 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST’19), held from April 16 to 19, at La Toja, Spain. WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges in modern information systems and technologies research, together with their technological development and applications. The book covers a number of topics, including A) Information and Knowledge Management; B) Organizational Models and Information Systems; C) Software and Systems Modeling; D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; E) Multimedia Systems and Applications; F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; H) Big Data Analytics and Applications; I) Human–Computer Interaction; J) Ethics, Computers & Security; K) Health Informatics; L) Information Technologies in Education; M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications; and N) Technologies for Biomedical Applications.
Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics
Author: Klaus P. SchneiderPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311043105X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of a wide range of developmental and clinical issues in pragmatics. Principally, the contributions to this volume deal with pragmatic competence in a native language, in a second or foreign language, and in a selection of language disorders. The topics which are covered explore questions of production and comprehension on the utterance and discourse level. Topics addressed concern the acquisition and learning, teaching and testing, assessment and treatment of various aspects of pragmatic ability, knowledge and use. These include, for example, the acquisition and development of speech acts, implicatures, irony, story-telling and interactional competence. Phenomena such as pragmatic awareness and pragmatic transfer are also addressed. The disorders considered include clinical conditions pertaining to children and to adults. Specifically, these are, among others, autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, and Alzheimer's disease.