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Action Research

The central purpose of this book is to enable practitioners to undertake and to offer an account of an action research project. The volume is divided into seven sections, the first six of which are headed by commonly asked questions. Having examined the nature of action research, Costello focuses on developing an appropriate project, data collection and analysis, and producing a research report. The final selection offers suggestions for further reading.

see how well it is progressing' (Wragg, 1994, p. 111). These distinctions are
important because they draw attention to different ways of utilizing action
research to achieve educational goals. It is often the case that particular
problems identified ...

100 must-read crime novels

This book is a guide to some of the finest crime novels ever published. With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you'll quickly become an expert on the world of crime fiction. Inside you'll find: an extended introduction to the genre, background and history; 100 titles highlighted A-Z by author, with 500 'read-on' recommendations; 'read on a theme' categories; and lists of major award winners in the genre.

Writing under the pseudonym of Edmund Crispin, he produced some of the most
enjoyable English crime fiction of the 1940s ... to the solution of crossword
puzzles - he created one of the most memorable and likeable of all academic
sleuths.

Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching

A compilation of research exploring different ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching.

Among the reported advantages of this type of examination, perhaps the most
outstanding is the lowering of anxiety as opposed to traditional exams and the '
cleanliness' of the method, environmentally speaking, since no paper whatsoever
was used in the whole process. On the negative side, a few students found that
their limited computer-skills negatively affected their performance. Regarding
activities 2 and 3, i.e. those involving direct access to the database by students, a
good ...

Teaching English 3-11

The Essential Guide for Teachers

This title highlights aspects of progression and continuity in the teaching of English across the Foundation and Primary years and encourages readers to develop an understanding of key principles and the confidence to apply these appropriately to their classroom practice.

genres. Attention has long been drawn to the value of writing in organizing
thinking and helping the writer to make sense of ... (1987), is intended to reflect
those most frequently required in school-based writing across the curriculum.
These six ...

Wisdom for Hen Keepers

500 tips for keeping chickens

A comprehensive collection of 500 tips written by poultry expert Chris Graham covers all aspects of keeping chickens including: Becoming a Hen Keeper; Housing and Equipment; Choosing Chickens; Feeding Chickens; Eggs and Meat; Flock Needs; Breeding and Showing; and, Ailments. The tips are grouped logically so that novices can build their knowledge gradually, while old hands might prefer to dip in and out at random or use the index to refer to specific topics. The tips are also accompanied by simple annotated diagrams where required. Illustrated throughout with specially commissioned linocut prints by award-winning printmaker Melvyn Evans, Wisdom for Henkeeping is an ideal companion for newcomers to henkeeping, and also a perfect gift for more experienced poultry keepers.

The Grammar Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning

One of the key issues in second language learning and teaching concerns the role and practice of grammar instruction. Does it make a difference? How do we teach grammar in the language classroom? Is there an effective technique to teach grammar that is better than others? While some linguists address these questions to develop a better understanding of how people acquire a grammar, language acquisition scholars are in search of the most effective way to approach the teaching of grammar in the language classroom. The individual chapters in this volume will explore a variety of approaches to grammar teaching and offer a list of principles and guidelines that those involved in language acquisition should consider to design and implement effective grammar tasks during their teaching. It proposes that the key issue is not whether or not we should teach grammar but how we incorporate a teaching grammar component in our communicative language teaching practices.

As the consciousness about certain grammar forms and rules often relies on
learners' prior language knowledge, among many other factors, there is a need
for exploring the roles of language awareness in the process of L3 grammar
learning.

Issues in Second Language Proficiency

Benati provides clarity about the characteristics and notion of language proficiency in the field of second language acquisition. He looks at four areas of research paradigmatically related to the role of proficiency: theorizing and measuring second language proficiency; the dimensions of L2 proficiency; factors contributing to the attainment of L2 proficiency and attaining L2 proficiency in the classroom. It also contains a variety of research accounts about the specific factors which have an effect on proficiency together with a theorised measurement of proficiency in second language research. It will be required reading for researchers in applied linguistics and second language acquisition.

It is a truism of testing that one-item tests are nonfunctional, and so if we apply
this to the assessment of spoken language performance, this means that a series
of tasks will be necessary for any effective assessment to be made. The matrix in
 ...

Teaching and Learning a Second Language

A Guide to Recent Research and Its Applications

There is increasingly wide agreement among teachers, researchers, inspectors, advisers and policy-makers that both teaching and research will benefit from being brought closer together. But how can this be achieved? Hard-pressed practioners cannot be expected to review a constant flow of conference papers, journals and other publications, even if such items were accessibly written. This unique book synthesizes relevant research findings for the professional practioner and highlights their implications for the quality of teaching and learning. Whether you are a teacher looking to improve your practice or a researcher looking for a concise overview of the literature, this book will prove a valuable acquisition.

Part 1 is a short account of the teaching and research context, both the genetic
research context in England and the foreignlanguage or second-language (L2)
acquisition research context internationally. Part 2 provides an extensive review
of ...

Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition

VanPatten and Benati give linguistics and language students a comprehensive overview of key issues and key terms in second language acquisition.

What is second language acquisition? Second language acquisition (SLA) is a
research field that focuses on learners and learning rather than teachers and
teaching. In their best-selling text, Gass and Selinker (2008, p. 1) define SLA as “
the ...

Second Language Conversations

"This collection is the first to consistently adopt Conversation Analysis as an approach to second language interaction. By examining first and second language speakers' participation in a wide range of activities, it challenges the dominant view of 'nonnative speakers' as deficient communicators. Proposing instead to understand second language users' conversational participation as interactional achievement, the book makes a powerful case for 'ethnomethodological respecification' in second language research." Professor Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai'i Conversations involving speakers whose first language is not the language in which they are talking have become widespread in the globalized world. Migration, increased travel for business or pleasure, as well as communication through new technologies such as the internet make Second Language Conversations an increasingly common everyday event. In this book Conversation Analysis is used to explore natural, casual talk between speakers in a second language. The contributors shift emphasis away from controlled contexts such as the classroom towards more sociable environments in which people go about their daily routines. English, German, French, Japanese, Finnish and Danish are all analyzed as second languages within a variety of professional, educational and sociable situations. This collection of essays aims to present naturally occurring Second Language Conversations in order to show what speakers in these situations do; how they utilize first language conversational practices, and whether or not grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation help or hinder the construction of meaning. >

Language. Learners. -. Being. a. Second. Language. Speaker. in. Institutional.
Interaction. Salla Kurhila In the conversation analytic tradition, the salience of the
participants' identities is seen as being dynamic. The relevance of the identities is
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