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Current Trends In The Development And Teaching Of The Four Language Skills

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 Builds connections from theory in the four language skills to instructional practices. This book deals with the following key topics: areas of research that influence the teaching of a particular skill; an overview of strategies necessary for developing a skill; an approach to the academic orientation; and unique aspects of teaching each skill.
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Dummy Auxiliaries In First And Second Language Acquisition

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 Dummy auxiliaries are seemingly superfluous words that appear in learner varieties across languages. This title offers an overview of research on dummy auxiliaries with contributions covering English, Dutch, German, French, Cypriot-Greek, first and second language acquisition, and specific language impairment as well as dialectal variation.
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Advanced Proficiency And Exceptional Ability In Second Languages

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 A critical overview of the notions of high-level second language proficiency and exceptionality. Including chapters that present empirical research results, and a theoretical understanding of the issues involved, it describes the body of knowledge that has been attained today. It also discusses research methodologies.
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The L2 Acquisition Of Spanish Subjects - Multiple Perspectives

by Margaret Quesada

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 This volume has two principal objectives: the first is to understand what L2 learners are capable of acquiring in terms of subject expression in Spanish. The second is to identify the distinct contributions of each theoretical model and the like fin
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Advanced Proficiency And Exceptional Ability In Second Languages

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 This is a critical overview of the notions of high-level second language proficiency and exceptionality. The chapters do not simply focus particularly on presenting empirical research results, but rather provide an up-to-date theoretical understandi
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The Acquisition Of German - Introducing Organic Grammar

by Anne Vainikka e Martha Young-Scholten

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 The Acquisition of German
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Meaning In The Second Language

by Roumyana Slabakova

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 The book examines which linguistic properties are hard and which are easy to acquire when learning a second language. The Bottleneck Hypothesis is proposed, which states that inflectional morphemes and their features present the most formidable challenge to learners, while syntax and phrasal semantics pose less difficulty.
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Frequency Effects In Language Acquisition - Defining The Limits Of Frequency As An Explanatory Concept

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 The book addresses a controversial current topic in language acquisition studies: the impact of frequency on linguistic structure in child language.
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Developing Contrastive Pragmatics - Interlanguage And Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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 A collection of papers on Contrastive Pragmatics, involving research on interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives with a focus on second language acquisition contexts.
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Learning Indigenous Languages: Child Language Acquisition In Mesoamerica

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 This book includes six studies on the acquisition of single Mesoamerican indigenous languages, (Huichol, Zapotec, and the Mayan languages Ch'ol, Tzeltal, K'iche', and Yukatek);
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Development Of Nominal Inflection In First Language Acquisition - A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

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 A work about the acquisition of the grammar of the noun in children's second and third years of life. It studies the early development of fundamental linguistic distinctions in the universal category of the noun, namely singular vs plural and nominative vs accusative as well as other cases.
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The Acquisition Of Intensifiers - Emphatic Reflexives In English And German Child Language

by Insa Gülzow

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 Analyzes the acquisition of intensifiers by children acquiring German or English as their first language. Based on a comparative analysis of intensifiers and related expressions in the two languages, this book examines when and in which contexts the intensifiers German selbst/selber and English x-self (myself, yourself, himself, etc) appear.
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The Structure Of Learner Varieties

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 This volume brings together ten contributions to the study of untutored (mainly) second but also first language acquisition. The first theme concerns the acquisition of scope phenomena (negation, scope particles), the second one deals with referential movement (reference to person, time and space).
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Early Child Cantonese - Facts And Implications

by Hui Li e Shek Tse

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 Systematically addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in early childhood. This title draws upon evidence from reviews of associated literature, on the outcomes of numerous research studies conducted by the authors and on the outcomes of a study of the largest corpus of early childhood Cantonese.
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Production-Comprehension Asymmetries In Child Language

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 Production-Comprehension Asymmetries in Child Language
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The Acquisition Of Numeral Classifiers - The Case Of Japanese Children

by Kasumi Yamamoto

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 This book is about the numeral classifier system and the acquisition of Japanese classifiers by Japanese children. First, it provides a general typological characterization of numeral classifier phrases and discusses the semantic properties of numeral classifiers based on an analysis of four languages from four different language families.
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Problem Solving In A Foreign Language - A Study In Content And Language Integrated Learning

by Lena Heine

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 Examines the basis for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) from a cognitive perspective and gives an overview of the foundations of problem solving, thinking and language processing. This book presents a study in which the language and content-focused cognitive processes of learners during task solving are investigated.
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The Age Factor And Early Language Learning

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 Offers readers chapters on the age factor in different educational contexts across three continents. The book documents the development in research methods into early language learning and teaching. It includes papers that discuss curriculum and assessment, individual differences, innovation in teacher education, and the role of target language.
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Language Acquisition And The Functional Category System

by Peter Jordens

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 Finiteness, as a concept of information structure, determines the perspective from which the present investigation has been carried out. Finiteness, as it plays a role at different stages of development, serves thus as the anchoring point from which the dynamics of the process of language development both in L1 and L2 learners can be explained.
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Acquisition Of Word Order In Chinese As A Foreign Language

by Wenying Jiang

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 Applies linguistic achievements of word order studies in Chinese to Chinese second language acquisition research. By analyzing a number of word order errors made by learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL), this book develops a method for describing and explaining Chinese word order errors.
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Functional Categories In Learner Language

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 Research on spontaneous processes of language acquisition has shown that early learner systems are based on lexical structures. This work deals with the driving forces behind the acquisition of the functional properties of inflection, word-order variation, definiteness and agreement.
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Research And Perspectives On Processing Instruction

by Alessandro G. Benati e James F. Lee

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 Tracks the impact processing instruction has made since its conception. This work provides an overview of research trends on measuring the relative effects of processing instruction. It explains processing instruction, both its main theoretical underpinnings as well as the guidelines for developing structured input practices.
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Second-Language Speech - Structure And Process

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 This work provides a cross-section of current research on second-language speech. Issues covered include: the influence of the first language; the contexts of speech-sounding learning; the perception-production relation; the nature of speech language capacity.
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Interlanguage Refusals - A Cross-Cultural Study Of Japanese-English

by Noël Houck e Susan M. Gass

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 This text takes an in-depth look at the speech act of refusals as performed in English by native speakers of Japanese.
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