Applied Linguistics

Adolescent Second Language Learning and Multilingualism (e-book)

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

This is the first book dedicated exclusively to presenting the current state of scholarship on multilingual development and language use among adolescents. Drawing upon the fast-growing interdisciplinary field of youth studies, the book provides a detailed examination of the linguistic, cognitive, and literacy development of multilingual teenagers in home, school, community, and global contexts.

Adolescent Second Language Learning and Multilingualism

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

This is the first book dedicated exclusively to presenting the current state of scholarship on multilingual development and language use among adolescents. Drawing upon the fast-growing interdisciplinary field of youth studies, the book provides a detailed examination of the linguistic, cognitive, and literacy development of multilingual teenagers in home, school, community, and global contexts.

Second Language Pragmatics

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Naoko Taguchi and Carsten Roever

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives.

Second Language Pragmatics e-Book

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Naoko Taguchi and Carsten Roever

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives. They cover theories of pragmatics learning and research methods in investigating pragmatics, linking these with findings on the acquisition of second language pragmatics and with practice in teaching and assessing pragmatics. Discussing pragmatics in the context of multilingual societies and diverse contexts of use, they offer a broad perspective on this growing area.

Second Language Pragmatics e-Book for Kindle

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Naoko Taguchi and Carsten Roever

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives.

Teaching Language as Communication e-book

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H G Widdowson

This book develops a rational approach to the teaching of language as communication, based on a careful consideration of the nature of language and of the language user's activities. It will stimulate all language teachers to investigate the ideas that inform their own practice.

Conversational Interaction in Second Language Acquisition e-book

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Alison Mackey

This edited collection of empirical studies provides insights into a wide variety of issues at the center of current research into the relationship between conversational interaction and second language learning outcomes.

Formulaic Language: Pushing the Boundaries e-book

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Alison Wray

Examines how formulaic language ("lexical chunks") is used in a variety of real-life situations.

Presents a framework for examining the existence and function of formulaic language and tests it extensively against language data within a wide variety of language samples. Formulaic language is a fast-growing area of applied linguistic research, and the author is a key figure in this field.

Formulaic Language: Pushing the Boundaries e-Book for Kindle

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Alison Wray

Conversational Interaction in Second Language Acquisition e-Book for Kindle

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Alison Mackey