Applied Linguistics

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

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition e-book

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Zoltan Dornyei

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition offers a systematic and accessible overview of the main psychological areas and theories in order to keep abreast of the ongoing paradigm shift. Readers will find succinct and up-to-date descriptions of a wide range of psycholinguistic and neuropsychological topics such as language and the brain; neuroimaging and other research methods in psycholinguistics and brain research; non-nativist approaches to language acquisition; explicit/implicit learning and memory, procedural/declarative knowledge, and the automatization of language skills; learner characteristics, age effects, and the critical period hypothesis; and the psychological basis of language learning in educational contexts.

From Experience to Knowledge in ELT e-Book for Kindle

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Julian Edge and Sue Garton

Each title in the series is intended to serve both as a basis for training courses and seminars, and as a reference text.

Literacy and Second Language Oracy e-book for Kindle

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Elaine Tarone and Martha Bigelow

Literacy and Second Language Oracy e-book

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Elaine Tarone and Martha Bigelow

This book offers research evidence with a startling conclusion: language processing skills that have been assumed to be universal human traits appear instead to be a product of learners' experience with alphabetic print literacy.

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition e-book

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Zoltán Dörnyei

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition

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Zoltán Dörnyei

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition offers a systematic and accessible overview of the main psychological areas and theories in order to keep abreast of the ongoing paradigm shift. Readers will find succinct and up-to-date descriptions of a wide range of psycholinguistic and neuropsychological topics such as language and the brain; neuroimaging and other research methods in psycholinguistics and brain research; non-nativist approaches to language acquisition; explicit/implicit learning and memory, procedural/declarative knowledge, and the automatization of language skills; learner characteristics, age effects, and the critical period hypothesis; and the psychological basis of language learning in educational contexts.