Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching
This volume was conceived as a first book in SLA for advanced undergraduate or introductory master’s courses that include education majors, foreign language education majors, and English majors. It’s also an excellent resource for practicing teachers. Both the research and pedagogy in this book are based on the newest research in the field of second language acquisition. It is not the goal of this book to address every SLA theory or teach research methodology. It does however address the myths and questions that non-specialist teacher candidates have about language learning. Steven Brown is the co-author of the introductory applied linguistics textbook Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation textbook (and workbook). The myths challenged in this book are: § Children learn languages quickly and easily while adults are ineffective in comparison. § A true bilingual is someone who speaks two languages perfectly. § You can acquire a language simply through listening or reading. § Practice makes perfect. § Language students learn (and retain) what they are taught. § Language learners always benefit from correction. § Individual differences are a major, perhaps the major, factor in SLA. § Language acquisition is the individual acquisition of grammar.
Children learn languages quickly and easily while adults are ineffective in comparison -- A true bilingual is someone who speaks two languages perfectly -- You can acquire a language simply through listening or reading -- Practice makes ...
A Writer's Guide for 1st-grade through adulthood. Anyone who wants to know the quick tricks to producing effective writing for academics or creative nonfiction and fiction writing. This book has been written and compiled by professional writers to be as accessible to as many writing levels as possible and includes a lot of the tricks not typically taught in the classroom.
This book has been written and compiled by professional writers to be as accessible to as many writing levels as possible and includes a lot of the tricks not typically taught in the classroom.
This seminal work is the second volume of a widely praised study of the concept of woman in the history of Western philosophy. Sister Prudence Allen explores claims about sex and gender identity in the works of over fifty philosophers (both men and women) in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. Touching on the thought of every philosopher who considered sex or gender identity between A.D. 1250 and 1500, The Concept of Woman provides the analytical categories necessary for situating contemporary discussion of women in relation to men. Adding to the accessibility of this fine discussion are informative illustrations, helpful summary charts, and extracts of original source material (some not previously available in English). Encyclopedic in coverage yet clearly organized and well written, The Concept of Woman will be an invaluable resource for readers interested in a wide range of disciplines.
Very soon they were joined by many newly founded mendicant religious
communities, such as the Franciscans, Dominicans, and Augustinians who,
unlike the secular clergy who remained primarily in one location, formed
networks of houses of study throughout Europe in a move to evangelize and fight
different forms of heresy, apostasy, or the advance of other religions such as Islam. The mendicant friars formed an elite group of men who studied at
university centers up to fifteen ...
