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Insights Into Second Language Reading

A Cross-Linguistic Approach

Reading is a multi-faceted, complex construct, and its complexity increases in second-language reading. In this volume, the author provides an in-depth analysis of the multiple dimensions of second language reading, presenting syntheses of current research on first and second language reading. (Miswest).

Language transfer has long been a central concern among L2 researchers. As
an outgrowth of the contrastive analysis (CA) hypothesis, transfer concepts were
widely endorsed in the 1950s and 1960s. Their basic hypothesis, a derivative of ...

Evaluating Second Language Education

Responsibility for planning language teaching programs now carries with it a strong element of accountability. Evaluation of the whole process of course design, development, and implementation is therefore a necessary area of activity for course designers, language planners, and researchers. This book brings together accounts of recent work in this increasingly important field and will be a valuable resource both for those already engaged in evaluation and for those in training. Part One presents a review of the literature, covering past developments in the wider field of educational evaluation, as well as specifically in second language education. Part Two contains a series of eight original case-studies, written by scholars involved in evaluations in widely divergent settings. The focus in each case is on how the evaluator addresses the difficulties central to each study, and the findings are also included. The final Part Three provides practical guidance for evaluators, offering suggestions about how to set up and carry out evaluations in any given setting.

PART I Evaluation of language education: an overview Alan Beretta Introduction
This chapter has two principal aims. The first is to provide a review of previous
evaluation studies in foreign language teaching, so that future evaluations may
be ...

Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing

This book covers the nature of measurement, the context that determines the uses of language tests, and the nature of the language abilities to be measured.

Here is a clear and authoritative discussion of the basic concerns which underlie the development and use of language tests, and an up-to-date synthesis of research on testing.

Changing Language Teaching Through Language Testing

A Washback Study

Despite persistent assertions of washback (the influence of testing on teaching and learning) limited research studies have been undertaken on the subject. Even fewer studies have made use of quantitative and qualitative methods to examine washback. This book, at the intersection of language testing and teaching practices/programs, investigates the impact of the introduction of the 1996 Hong Kong Certificate of Education in English, a high-stakes public examination, on classroom teaching and learning in Hong Kong secondary schools. The washback effect was observed initially at the macro level, including different parties within the Hong Kong educational context, and subsequently at the micro level, in terms of the classroom, including aspects of teachers' attitudes, teaching content and classroom interactions. Further, the book offers insights into the concept that a test can be used as a change agent to encourage innovation in the classroom.

This book, at the intersection of language testing and teaching practices/programs, investigates the impact of the introduction of the 1996 Hong Kong Certificate of Education in English, a high-stakes public examination, on classroom ...

Interfaces Between Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing Research

Second language acquisition (SLA) and language testing (LT) research have largely been viewed as distinct areas of inquiry in applied linguistics. This book provides a fresh look at areas of common interest to both SLA and LT research, and ways in which research in these two areas of applied linguistics can be fruitfully integrated.

This book provides a fresh look at areas of common interest to both SLA and LT research, and ways in which research in these two areas of applied linguistics can be fruitfully integrated.

Macroeconomics

Institutions, Instability, and the Financial System

Carlin and Soskice integrate the financial system with a model of the macro-economy. In doing this, they take account of the gaps in the mainstream model exposed by the financial crisis and the Eurozone crisis. This equips the reader with a realistic modelling framework to analyse the economy both in crisis times and in periods of stability.

Aghion, P., Harris, C., Howitt, P. and Vickers, J. (2001) Competition, imitation and
growth with step-by-step innovation. The Review of Economic Studies, 68(3):467
–492. Aghion, P., Hemous, D. and Kharroubi, E. (forthcoming) Cyclical fiscal ...

The Popular Front and the Progressive Tradition

Socialists, Liberals and the Quest for Unity, 1884-1939

A study of the reasons of the British Labour Party's 'left' for supporting the formation of a 'Popular Front' in the late 1930s.

This, perhaps more neatly than anything else, indicates the distance Green had
travelled from Mill. Green, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and
Other Writings, ed. P. Harris & J. Morrow, Cambridge University Press, 1986. 27.

Prolegomena to Ethics

T. H. Green's Prolegomena to Ethics (1883) is a classic of modern philosophy. It begins with Green's idealist attack on empiricist metaphysics and epistemology and develops a perfectionist ethical theory that aims to bring together the best elements in the ancient and modern traditions, and that provides the moral foundations for Green's own distinctive brand of liberalism. David Brink's new edition will restore this great work to prominence, after two decades in which it has been hard toobtain. The present edition uses the text of the fifth edition, accompanied by a new introductory essay, bibliographical essay, and index. Translations are provided for Green's quotations from other languages. Of particular importance is the editor's extended introductory essay, which situates the Prolegomena in its intellectual context, sympathetically but critically engages its main themes, and explains Green's enduring significance for the history of philosophy and contemporary ethicaltheory. Students and scholars of the history of ethics, ethical theory, political philosophy, and nineteenth century philosophy will find this new edition an invaluable resource.

P. Harris and J. Morrow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), which
also contains useful selections from the Prolegomena and Green's political
lectures and essays, Green's principal writings are available only in his collected
 ...

Religion in Roman Egypt

Assimilation and Resistance

This exploration of cultural resilience examines the complex fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the period when Christianity first made its appearance in Egypt to when it became the region's dominant religion (roughly 100 to 600 C.E. Taking into account the full range of witnesses to continuing native piety--from papyri and saints' lives to archaeology and terracotta figurines--and drawing on anthropological studies of folk religion, David Frankfurter argues that the religion of Pharonic Egypt did not die out as early as has been supposed but was instead relegated from political centers to village and home, where it continued a vigorous existence for centuries. In analyzing the fate of the Egyptian oracle and of the priesthoods, the function of magical texts, and the dynamics of domestic cults, Frankfurter describes how an ancient culture maintained itself while also being transformed through influences such as Hellenism, Roman government, and Christian dominance. Recognizing the special characteristics of Egypt, which differentiated it from the other Mediterranean cultures that were undergoing simultaneous social and political changes, he departs from the traditional "decline of paganism/triumph of Christianity" model most often used to describe the Roman period. By revealing late Egyptian religion in its Egyptian historical context, he moves us away from scenarios of Christian triumph and shows us how long and how energetically pagan worship survived.

71, 178; P. Grenfell 76, 120, 260-61, 275; P. Harris 54, 194; P.Heid. 334, 123; P.
London 854, 157; P. London 1713, 120, 260-61, 275; P. London 2554, 123, 153;
P. Merton 81, 157, 177; P. Mich. Inv. 1355, 56; P. Oxy 42, 58; P.Oxy 71, 250; ...

Criterion-Referenced Language Testing

Criterion-referenced Language Testing looks at the practical applications of this new area of language testing.

Recall any of the Educational Testing Service examinations that you may have
taken, like the Graduate Record Examination (Educational Testing Service,
2000a) or the Test of English as a Foreign Language (Educational Testing
Service, ...