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Author | : Guy Cook |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2000-02-03 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780194421539 |
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This book has two related purposes. The first is to demonstrate the extent and importance of language play in human life; the second is to draw out the implications for applied linguistics and language teaching. Language play should not be thought of as a trivial or peripheral activity, but as central to human thought and culture, to learning, creativity, and intellectual enquiry. It fulfils a major function of language, underpinning the human capacity to adapt: as individuals, as societies, and as a species.
Author | : Frederick Bodmer |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780393300345 |
Download The Loom of Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.
Author | : Steve Kaufmann |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2005-11 |
Genre | : Linguistics |
ISBN | : 1420873296 |
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The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey. It is now a cliché that the world is a smaller place. We think nothing of jumping on a plane to travel to another country or continent. The most exotic locations are now destinations for mass tourism. Small business people are dealing across frontiers and language barriers like never before. The Internet brings different languages and cultures to our finger-tips. English, the hybrid language of an island at the western extremity of Europe seems to have an unrivalled position as an international medium of communication. But historically periods of cultural and economic domination have never lasted forever. Do we not lose something by relying on the wide spread use of English rather than discovering other languages and cultures? As citizens of this shrunken world, would we not be better off if we were able to speak a few languages other than our own? The answer is obviously yes. Certainly Steve Kaufmann thinks so, and in his busy life as a diplomat and businessman he managed to learn to speak nine languages fluently and observe first hand some of the dominant cultures of Europe and Asia. Why do not more people do the same? In his book The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey, Steve offers some answers. Steve feels anyone can learn a language if they want to. He points out some of the obstacles that hold people back. Drawing on his adventures in Europe and Asia, as a student and businessman, he describes the rewards that come from knowing languages. He relates his evolution as a language learner, abroad and back in his native Canada and explains the kind of attitude that will enable others to achieve second language fluency. Many people have taken on the challenge of language learning but have been frustrated by their lack of success. This book offers detailed advice on the kind of study practices that will achieve language breakthroughs. Steve has developed a language learning system available online at: www.thelinguist.com.
Author | : Andrew Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : David Crystal |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2001-06-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780226122052 |
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In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them. Crystal makes a simple argument-that since playing with language is so natural, a natural way to learn language is to play with it-while he discusses puns, crosswords, lipograms, comic alphabets, rhymes, funny voices taken from dialect and popular culture, limericks, anagrams, scat singing, and much more.
Author | : Andrew Wright |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2006-02-13 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0521618223 |
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A fully updated and revised edition of this classic book which contains enjoyable games to practise language at any stage of the learning process.
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Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Applied linguistics |
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Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Languages, Modern |
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Author | : Nelson H. Brooks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
ISBN | : |
Download Language and Language Learning: Theory and Practice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jenefer Philp |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027290563 |
Download Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This new volume of work highlights the distinctiveness of child SLA through a collection of different types of empirical research specific to younger learners. Characteristics of children’s cognitive, emotional, and social development distinguish their experiences from those of adult L2 learners, creating intriguing issues for SLA research, and also raising important practical questions regarding effective pedagogical techniques for learners of different ages. While child SLA is often typically thought of as simple (and often enjoyable and universally effortless), in other words, as “child’s play”, the complex portraits of young second language learners which emerge in the 16 papers collected in this book invite the reader to reconsider the reality for many younger learners. Chapters by internationally renowned authors together with reports by emerging researchers describe second and foreign language learning by children ranging from pre-schoolers to young adolescents, in home and school contexts, with caregivers, peers, and teachers as interlocutors.