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Advanced Language Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

Advanced Language Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-02-08
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Examines the need for advanced levels of language learning from socio-cultural and linguistic perspectives.

Transformative Language Learning and Teaching
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Transformative Language Learning and Teaching

A seminal work in the field, this book shows how transformative education can be applied to world language programs.

Body, Emotion and Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Body, Emotion and Mind

This volume decodes the European representations of the Indian body, emotions, and mind in diverse representational discourses. Efforts have been made to counter the mind-centered approaches to body and emotions, reassessing the body's role in intellectual insight and insisting on the centrality of the body in the reproduction and transformation of cultural experiences. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with Indian and cross-cultural studies. (Series: Studien zur Orientalischen Kirchengeschichte / Studies on the Oriental Church History - Vol. 49)

Reading Mahler
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Reading Mahler

Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's position in German-Jewish culture.

Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities

Advanced language learning has only recently begun to capture the interest and attention of applied linguists and professionals in language education in the United States. In this breakthrough volume, experts in the field lay the groundwork for approaching the increasingly important role of advanced language learning in the larger context of multilingual societies, globalization, and security. This volume presents both general and theoretical insights and language-specific considerations in college classrooms spanning a range of languages, from the commonly taught languages of English, French, and German to the less commonly taught Farsi, Korean, Norwegian, and Russian. Among theoretical fra...

Farewell, Aylis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

Farewell, Aylis

The three novellas of Farewell, Aylis take place over decades of transition in a country that rather resembles modern-day Azerbaijan. In Yemen, a Soviet traveler takes an afternoon stroll and finds himself suspected of defecting to America. In Stone Dreams, an actor explores the limits of one man’s ability to live a moral life amid conditions of sociopolitical upheaval, ethnic cleansing, and petty professional intrigue. In A Fantastical Traffic Jam, those who serve the aging leader of a corrupt, oil-rich country scheme to stay alive. Farewell, Aylis, a new essay by the author that reflects on the political firestorm surrounding these novellas and his current situation as a prisoner of conscience in Azerbaijan, was commissioned especially for this Academic Studies Press edition.

L2 Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

L2 Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives

The aim of this pioneering volume is to advance our understanding of written language learning in instructed SLA by offering a collection of empirical studies in which the contribution of diverse theoretical perspectives to our understanding of L2 writing development will be explored. As such, the book represents a further attempt to situate written language learning at the core of applied linguistics research, in general, and SLA research, in particular, hence attempting to redress the oral bias of theoretical and empirical work in these fields. It adds a further building block onto recent TESOL initiatives aimed at understanding "development" in second and foreign language learning. Continuity from one chapter to another is provided by adherence to a consistent chapter model. The volume will be of great interest to academics in the disciplines of second/foreign language acquisition (SLA) and second/foreign language (L2) writing.

Literacies in Language Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Literacies in Language Education

A practical and innovative guide to emphasizing literacies development when teaching world languages Literacies in Language Education introduces multiliteracies pedagogy, which focuses on critical engagement with texts, intercultural understanding, and language proficiency development. Kate Paesani and Mandy Menke, seasoned workshop leaders and multiliteracies scholars, define what the approach is, its benefits, and how to create curricula grounded in it. In addition, they explain how to use the approach at all levels of language education and offer ideas for teacher professional development—each key components of pedagogical change. Melding text- and language-oriented learning goals, the ...

Developing Professional-Level Language Proficiency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Developing Professional-Level Language Proficiency

This 2002 book examines approaches to teaching students making the transition from 'advanced' or 'superior' proficiency in a foreign language to 'near-native' ability.

Contemplating Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Contemplating Violence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-06-29
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

Illuminates the treatment of violence in the German cultural tradition between the French Revolution and the Holocaust and Second World War.