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Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults...
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"This is the ninth edition of 'The Development of Language', which we have written for anyone with an interest in how children acquire language from infancy through the later school years. The field has changed substantially since our last edition, and we are very pleased to present new perspectives and new findings that have emerged over the past several years. This edition also includes some new topics that we think are interesting and important...
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"Kathy Sylva and Peter Bryant, both fo the University of Oxford, and other researchers share their insights into categorizing and codifying patterns of play through observation, avoiding common experiment-related pitfalls such as covariation and unintentional bias, and mitigating artificaility, a challenge to practitioners of both approaches"--Container.
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How do learners manage to communicate when their command of a language is limited?. The techniques and approximations they use are known as communication strategies. Understanding these strategies adds in part to the knowledge of linguistic structur and physchological processing. It also adds to the practical business of language teaching. This book addresses central issues in the study of communication strategies. How can er determine when language...
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"According to Paul Bloom, children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes. These include the ability to infer others' intentions, the ability to acquire concepts, and appreciation of syntactic structure, and certain general learning and memory abilities. The acquisition of even simple nouns requires rich conceptual, social, and linguistic capacities interacting in complex ways." "This book requires no background...
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This book is a comprehensive guide to research methods in second language and bilingualism. Based on a set of four research parameters, it discusses the development of research questions and hypotheses, naturalistic and experimental research, data collection, and validation of research instruments. Each chapter includes examples and activities.
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Between early childhood and adulthood, language acquisition is succeeded by a bloom of repertoire for managing interaction, a growing sensitivity to the relation of language and society, an expanding ability to wield power through the strategic use of language, and an increasing sophistication in framing speech activities. This book examines a wide range of language practices among school-age children and teenagers, using data from naturally occurring...
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This forceful book by a leading psycholinguistic researcher, demolishes a host of myths about bilinguals, bilingualism, and bilingual education. Hakuta argues that popular views and scholarly research mirror larger issues in the society. Direct, instructive, and eminently readable, this volume will be valuable for those who want to know whether to raise their children bilingually, how to decide on a bilingual education policy, or what is known about...
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