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Second Language Identity in Narratives of Study Abroad

This book brings together three important areas in language teaching and learning research by exploring the impact of study abroad on student's second language identities through narrative research.

The title of this book includes three terms that have opened up new and exciting
areas in second language learning research: narrative, second language identity
, and study abroad. In this introduction, we explain how these three concepts ...

Vygotskian Approaches to Second Language Research

In many ways, this edited volume can be read as a showcase for the state of affairs in SLA research. It exemplifies what makes current SLA work so energetic and vibrant, topically and methodologically innovative, insightful in its results, and intellectually and episteologically expansive in its implications and significance beyond second language acquisition. - Applied Linguistics This text brings together the work of scholars attempting to extend Vygotsky's theory to second language research. The papers included, are organized according to three of the major topics of interest in Vygotskian research: zone of proximal development, inner and private speech, and activity theory. All of the papers report on the results of empirical research carried on in these three areas. Readers will recognize the potential sociocultural theory and research has for developing a fuller understanding of L2 learning and use.

Although ineffective learners were less specific with respect to reporting
particular language learning strategies than effective ones, a clear pattern is
nevertheless revealed in the preceding analysis. While ineffective language
learners appear ...

Exploring Second-language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes

Bridging a Paradigm Gap

The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes and second-language varieties are typically non-native forms of English that emerge in language contact situations, it is high time that they are described and compared on an empirical basis in order to draw conceptual and theoretical conclusions with regard to their form, function and acquisition. The present collection of articles places special emphasis on empirical evidence obtained from large-scale analyses of computerised corpora of learner Englishes (such as the International Corpus of Learner English) and of second-language varieties of English (such as the International Corpus of English). It addresses questions such as Are the phenomena we find in ESL and EFL varieties features or errors? or How common and wide-spread are features across contact varieties of English? "

Marianne Hundt and Joybrato Mukherjee University of Zurich and Justus Liebig
University, Giessen The present book goes back to a workshop on “Second-
language varieties of English and learner Englishes” at the First Conference of
the ...

Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition

This volume presents a selection of second language acquisition studies at the level of morphosyntax. It looks at different aspects of morphosyntactic development of bilingual language learners/users such as language transfer, syntactic processing, morphology and the pragmatics of language among others. The studies report on projects carried out in different language contact contexts, ranging from: English, German, Polish, Greek and Turkish. The volume also includes those studies which show the interface between research findings and pedagogy of foreign language teaching.

Many recent publications have focused on problems operating at the lexical level
in second language acquisition (SLA), which itself was the consequence of an
overwhelming emphasis on grammar research in the past and a corresponding ...

Hydrogeology and Simulation of Ground-water Flow and Land-surface Subsidence in the Chicot and Evangeline Aquifers, Houston Area, Texas

... the U.S. Geological Survey modular finite-difference ground-water flow model:
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96–485, 56 p. Harris-Galveston
Coastal Subsidence District, 1998, Groundwater management plan: Friendswood
, Tex., ...

Proposals for future monitoring of British mammals

London: T & AD Poyser Ltd. Reason, P., Harris, S. & Cresswell, P. (1993).
Estimating the impact of past persecution and habitat changes on the numbers of
badgers (Meles meles) in Britain. Mammal Review, 23: 1-15. Skinner, C, Skinner,
P.

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
 ...

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, ...

Performance Testing, Cognition and Assessment

Selected Papers from the 15th Language Research Testing Colloquium, Cambridge and Arnhem

This publication contains a selection of research papers presented at the 15th Annual Language Testing Research Colloquium.This publication contains a selection of research papers presented at the 15th Annual Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC). The Colloquium was jointly hosted by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) in Cambridge and CITO in Arnhem in the Netherlands. At the Cambridge venue, the papers were presented on the theme of performance testing and at Arnhem, they covered aspects of communication in relation to cognition and assessment. A selection of papers has been made in order to achieve a balanced coverage of these themes. In particular, the research presented includes work on speaking and writing tests where the focus is on raters and tasks; the application of various statistical methods in language test validation; and issues related to language testing in specific contexts and with particular candidate groups.

Yasmeen Lukmani Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics,
University of Cambridge/University of Bombay Introduction A question that
interests all educationists is the identification of factors which lead to academic
success.