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The Education of d/deaf and hard of hearing children perspectives on language…
A significant number of d/Deaf and hard of hearing (d/Dhh) children and adolescents experience challenges in acquiring a functional level of English language and literacy skills in the United States (and elsewhere). To provide an understanding of this issue, this book explores the theoretical underpinnings and synthesizes major research findings. It also covers critical controversial areas such…
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- 9783039281251
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- 200 p.; 22 cm.
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- 418.7 EDU e
Formal and methodological approaches to applied linguistics
The goal of this Special Issue is to bring together state-of-the art articles on applied linguistics which reflect investigation carried out by researchers from different parts of the world. By bringing together papers from different perspectives, we hope to be able to gain a better understanding of the field. Hence, this Special Issue intends to address the study of language in its different d…
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- 9783039283231
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- 144 p.; 23 cm.
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- 427 FOR f
On the border of language and dialect
This volume considers the linguistic borders between languages and dialects, as well as the administrative, cultural and mental borders that reflect or affect linguistic ones; it comprises eight articles examining the mental borders between dialects, dialect continua and areas of mixed dialect, language ideologies, language mixing and contact-induced language change. The book opens with Denni…
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- 9789518580037
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- 259p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- Studia Fennica linguistica, 21
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- 417.2 ONT o
Dependencies in language: On the causal ontology of linguistic systems
Dependency is a fundamental concept in the analysis of linguistic systems. The many if-then statements offered in typology and grammar-writing imply a causally real notion of dependency that is central to the claim being made—usually with reference to widely varying timescales and types of processes. But despite the importance of the concept of dependency in our work, its nature is seldom def…
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- 9783946234661
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- 215 p.
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- 400 ENF d
Aspects of Linguistic Variation
This volume brings together papers on linguistic variation. It takes a broad perspective, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation, and examines phenomena ranging from negation and TAM over connectives and the lexicon to definite articles and comparative concepts in well- and lesser-known languages. The collection thus contributes to o…
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- 9783110607963
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- 278 p.
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- 415 VAN a
Vocabulary development
Knowledge of word meanings is critical to success in reading. A reader cannot fully understand a text in which the meaning to a significant number of words is unknown. Vocabulary knowledge has long been correlated with proficiency in reading. Yet, national surveys of student vocabulary knowledge have demonstrated that student growth in vocabulary has been stagnant at best. This volume offers ne…
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- 9783038977353
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- X, 142 p.
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- 428.81 VOC v
Metacognition in language learning and teaching
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351049139, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume offers an exhaustive look at the latest research on metacognition in language learning and teaching. While other works have explored certain notions of metacognition in language…
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- 9781351049146
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- XIII, 269 p.
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- 418.0071 MET m
Reading With My Eyes Open: Embracing the critical and the personal in languag…
Untangling the various approaches to language teaching and their history, Gerdi Quist maps recent thinking in language studies at university. Using an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, drawn from educational philosophy, cultural studies, intercultural studies and language pedagogy, the author discusses the many tensions and currents in contemporary language teaching. The author puts forw…
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- 9781909188228
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- ix, 198p. : ill.
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- 418.00711 QUI r
Cohesion, coherence and temporal reference from an experimental corpus pragma…
This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect are treated as cohesion ties contributing to the temporal coherence of a discourse, as well as to…
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- 9783319967523
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- 319 p.; 23 cm.
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- 401.43 GRI c
Individual differences in speech production and perception
Inter-individual variation in speech is a topic of increasing interest both in human sciences and speech technology. It can yield important insights into biological, cognitive, communicative, and social aspects of language. Written by specialists in psycholinguistics, phonetics, speech development, speech perception and speech technology, this volume presents experimental and modeling studies t…
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- 9783653963830
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- 284 p.; 23 cm.
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- 414 IND i
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