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Early Trilingualism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Early Trilingualism

The book describes how a trilingual child in the Basque Country, where Spanish and Basque are the languages of the community, is able to successfully acquire English at home through interaction with her mother. It focuses on her acquisition of the form and function of English questions.

Charlie Lister on Greyhounds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Charlie Lister on Greyhounds

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Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning

This book brings together research that makes use of tasks to examine oral interaction, written production, vocabulary and reading, lexical innovation and pragmatics in different formal language learning contexts and in different languages (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish). It will be of interest to professionals and students working in SLA research and language pedagogy.

Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing

The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. The volume brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings and focuses on different foreign languages. The book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the area of second language acquisition.

101 Facts about Guinea Pigs
  • Language: en

101 Facts about Guinea Pigs

Fun facts about guinea pigs, their history, and what makes them most content as domestic pets.

The Sense of an Ending
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

The Sense of an Ending

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-08-04
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  • Publisher: Random House

A monumental novel capturing how one man comes to terms with the mutable past. 'A masterpiece... I would urge you to read - and re-read ' Daily Telegraph **Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction** Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.

Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Foreign Language Acquisition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Foreign Language Acquisition

This is the first book that deals primarily with vocabulary learning strategies as a specific and integral subgroup of language learning strategies. Its aim is to define the concept of language learning strategies in general and their features on the basis of cognitive theory and relevant models of second language acquisition as the basis for empirical research. Furthermore, the book gives a survey of relevant research on vocabulary learning strategies and describes three original empirical studies. Thus, the book integrates the approaches of theories of second language acquisition, the theory and practice of instructed foreign (second) language learning, and the findings of current empirical research.

Foreign Language Input
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Foreign Language Input

This is a comprehensive study of the starting point of second language acquisition. With its focus on the language input that learners receive and what they do with this input, the study sheds light on questions still unanswered in second language acquisition literature.

Third Or Additional Language Acquisition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Third Or Additional Language Acquisition

Third or Additional Language Acquisition examines research on the acquisition of languages beyond the L2 within four main areas of inquiry: crosslinguistic influence, multilingual speech production models, the multilingual lexicon and the impact of bi/mul

Language Learners with Special Needs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Language Learners with Special Needs

This book provides an overview of topics related to the language learning processes of learners with special needs including students with learning disabilities as well as Deaf language learners and methods of teaching foreign languages to them. The chapters written by authors in a wide variety of educational settings discuss individual learner characteristics and profiles, diagnosis and assessment issues and instructional programs.