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Spanish grammar companion for teachers : linguistic insights for deeper understanding
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ISBN: 9783030841119 9783030841102 9783030841126 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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This textbook boosts the confidence of persons teaching Spanish as a second language, who may lack confidence in their understanding of tricky areas of expression. Their previous training did not enable them to control (much less explain to others) the many "danger zones" which challenge graduate students serving as teaching assistants, in-service teachers, and others who use Spanish professionally. It offers original and insightful analyses, abundant examples and helpful English comparisons. It disarticulates the machinery of grammar into manageable parts. It is not intended for those beginning to learn Spanish (since it skips the basics to focus on the "rough spots"), but is directed to those who know Spanish well, yet need to overcome their nagging limitations in obtuse areas, e.g. subjunctive, reflexives, pronouns (neuter, relative, personal), adjective placement, ser/estar, preterite/imperfect, commands, gender, passive and impersonal expressions. There are special sections devoted to words easily confused with each other, use of the accent mark, irregular verbs, and sentence structure. It is useful for self-study and to supplement texts in composition, culture and linguistics courses. It benefits native-speaker teachers unfamiliar with the "why" of their language, as well as buttressing anglophone instructors of scant linguistic background. The result is a better prepared teacher and a more promising learning experience for the students.


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The 5Cs positive teacher interpersonal behaviors : implications for learner empowerment and learning in an L2 context
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ISBN: 9783031165283 9783031165276 9783031165290 9783031165306 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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This book argues that, in line with the tenets of positive psychology in SLA and the rhetorical/relational goal theory, positive teacher-student interpersonal relationships are deemed to be of great significance for empowering students to accomplish favorable academic outcomes and to successfully learn a second/foreign language (L2), whether at its affective, behavioral, or cognitive levels. Therefore, understanding the role of teacher interpersonal behaviors and their effect on students' learning gains in the domain of SLA is of utmost importance, particularly as this line of research is at its nascent stage of development, and, as a result, available empirical evidence is still inconclusive. To address this issue, drawing on the mixed methods design, this book mainly aims to, first, empirically scrutinize the role of "5Cs" positive teacher interpersonal variables (i.e., care, clarity, closeness, confirmation, and credibility) in L2 students' affective, behavioral, and cognitive learning outcomes through the mediation of student-perceived learner empowerment in the L2 context of Iran. Second, it is intended to show how L2 teacher educators, teachers, and materials developers, among other key educational stakeholders, can facilitate the provision of interpersonally rich language learning environments with the ultimate goal of enhancing students' L2 learning.


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Essential English grammar and communication strategies : intermediate level
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ISBN: 9783030956127 9783030956110 9783030956134 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing,

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This book is for university students, with at least a mid-intermediate level of English. It is designed both for self-study and also as a support for a course on academic communication. It can thus be used alongside the companion volumes: Writing an Academic Paper in English and Giving an Academic Presentation in English. The book focuses only on those areas that are either the most commonly found in academic communication and/or cause the most problems. It is thus considerably more accessible than a traditional grammar or style guide. Grammar coverage includes: articles (a/an, the), countable vs uncountable nouns, modal verbs (can, may, could, might), comparisons, present and past tenses, link words, prepositions, and verbs that cause grammatical difficulties. There is a strong focus on those elements that make a paper more readable, and a presentation more accessible and memorable: clarity and empathy, sentence length, word order, and punctuation. There are chapters on two key areas of communication in academia: writing emails to editors, drafting a CV/resume. The book is laid out simply, with short explanations, and lots of example sentences (plus typical mistakes). Other books in the series: Writing an Academic Paper in English Giving an Academic Presentation in English Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 40 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and researchers from around 50 countries to write research papers and give presentations. He is also the co-founder of e4ac.com, an editing agency for non-native English-speaking researchers.


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Exploring silences in the field of computer assisted language learning
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ISBN: 9783031065019 9783031065002 9783031065026 9783031065033 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book is an attempt to pay deliberate attention to some silences on issues of social, cultural, and political importance that have remained unattended in the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Using an analytical framework developed by the French philosopher and cultural theorist Michel de Certeau, the author demonstrates how silences can actively shape the boundaries of a scholarly field. He argues that a "geography of the forgotten" in the field of CALL undermines the transformative and social justice potential of language teaching by using digital technologies. The book will appeal to graduate students, teacher educators, and academic researchers who are looking for fresh perspectives and innovative ideas for integrating technologies into the curriculum and pedagogy of language education. Anwar Ahmed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University in Toronto, Canada.


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Tijdschrift taal : voor opleiders en onderwijsadviseurs.
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ISSN: 18794548 18794556 Year: 2000 Publisher: Enschede SLO. Instituut voor leerplanontwikkeling (Stichting leerplanontwikkeling).

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Het Tijdschrift Taal voor Opleiders en Onderwijsadviseurs is bestemd voor opleiders van lerarenopleidingen basisonderwijs en taalspecialisten die als adviseur werkzaam zijn in het basisonderwijs; het wil de samenwerking binnen deze groep bevorderen. Het tijdschrift is kosteloos voor alle opleiders Nederlands van het primair onderwijs en onderwijsadviseurs van schoolbegeleidingsdiensten. Het tijdschrift kan ook in Pdf-formaat gedownload worden van de website


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Demystifying corpus linguistics for English language teaching
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ISBN: 9783031112201 9783031112195 9783031112218 9783031112225 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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The aim of this edited volume is to demystify corpus linguistics for use in English language teaching (ELT). It advocates the inclusion of corpus linguistics in the classroom as part of an approach to ELT in which students engage with naturally occurring language. The first chapter provides a basic but essential introduction to corpus linguistics, including sections on corpora and corpus methods, and this is followed by a review of the use of corpus linguistics in ELT. Chapters on the traditional ELT strands of skills, vocabulary and grammar as well as chapters on pluricentric approaches (on language and culture, World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca) flow naturally from the second chapter, which reports on a survey of the attitudes of trainee teacher to the use of corpus linguistics in the ELT classroom. The final two chapters show how the work of corpus linguists can benefit classroom teacher preparation, materials development and textbook writing. This book will be of interest not only to academics in fields such as English Language Teaching, Applied Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics, but also to educators of teacher-trainees and teacher-trainees themselves, as well as teachers who are looking for new interactive approaches to ELT. --


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Academic literacies provision for international students : evaluating impact and quality
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ISBN: 9783031115035 9783031115028 9783031115042 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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"The volume provides a welcome addition to the literature. It contributes through the reframing of support for English as an Additional language (EAL) international students through the lens of 'academic literacies'. This approach, and the vignettes throughout, show how institutions can develop in learners the practices required to 'communicate with confidence, clarity and care'. The result will be thought-provoking reading for practitioners in the field, as well as university policy developers, management and leadership." - Thomas Roche, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic Quality) and Dean of SCU College at Southern Cross University at the Gold Coast, Coffs Harbour & Lismore campuses, Australia "A major strength of this book is the holistic and highly reflective approach it takes in addressing a persistent concern in higher education globally - the quality and impact of academic literacies provision. Its presentation of data-informed insights on this issue from the interlinked perspectives of institution, academic practitioner and student gives it an edge over similarly themed books, making it a must read for students, academics and policy makers alike." - Bongi Bangeni, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa This book reinterprets the relevance, quality and impact of academic literacies provision at university in light of recent higher education developments in a pandemic-transformed world. Drawing on the author's own experience of researching, implementing and assessing academic literacies provision, and on insights from broader scholarship and professional debates, the book helps set a new direction of travel for academic literacies professionals working in a variety of roles to enable and resource students' academic and professional growth. It makes recommendations for policy, strategy and scholarship-informed practice that place value on communicating with confidence, clarity and care at university and beyond. Lia Blaj-Ward is Associate Professor of Teaching and Scholarship at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is the author of two previous Palgrave Macmillan volumes: Researching Contexts, Practices and Pedagogies in English for Academic Purposes (2014) and Language Learning and Use in English-Medium Higher Education (2017).


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Contemporary Issues in Foreign Language Education : Festschrift in Honour of Anna Michonska-Stadnik
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ISBN: 9783031286551 9783031286544 9783031286568 9783031286575 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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This edited volume offers an insightful theoretical conceptualization of issues central to 21st century foreign language learning and teaching. Drawing on research results obtained in the fields of pedagogy, social psychology and sociology of education, this book provides a comprehensive practical exploration of issues experienced by researchers in Poland and in Europe, and which can easily find far-reaching implications in other educational contexts. Part I, Focus on the Teacher, includes seven texts discussing topics relevant to teacher initial and in-service education, as well as the functioning of foreign language instructors in educational systems. The eight contributions included in Part II, Focus on the Learner, explore learner-internal and learner-external factors that affect the effectiveness of the language learning process. The exploration of key contemporary topics and the wide range of methodologies applied make this book of high relevance to Second Language Acquisition scholars, teacher educators, teachers, and language education policy makers.


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English bilingual project : exploring the pedagogical function of mentalese
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ISBN: 9789811947780 9789811947773 9789811947797 9789811947803 Year: 2022 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,

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Today, English is the global lingua franca and competent English communication skills should be one of the rights of all educated individuals irrespective of any socio-cultural limits. By introducing a new method, this book focuses on helping any learner to get sufficient communication skills in English as much as in the native language. This method helps one to avoid translating from mother tongue to English. And by using the method of thinking in English, one could acquire the required English bilingual skills naturally. The method is founded on the philosophical idea of mentalese-mind language as the base language of thinking available for humans for constructing thoughts. The proposed English Bilingual Project (EBP) helps one to transfer thoughts from a structureless mentalese to the grammatical structure of any language English/Japanese/Chinese. The method described in this book works in two ways: one it helps one to intuitively understand the working of mentalese; the other is by practicing think in English with the mentalese, one could generate the bilingual brain. The main procedure for transferring thoughts from the mentalese to English is through writing one's thoughts. This helps one to think effectively in English like one's own mother tongue. This method works as a prime requirement model for one to generate multilingual skills. The book resourced the idea of mentalese from the classical philosophy, reflects it with the modern generative theories, links it with the studies in neuro-linguistic studies on bilingualism and the bilingual brain.


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Multilingualism, identity and interculturality in education
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ISBN: 9789811958489 9789811958472 9789811958496 9789811958502 Year: 2022 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,

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This book brings together research on multilingualism, identity and intercultural understanding from a range of locations across the globe to explore the intersection of these key ideas in education. It addresses the need to better understand how multilingual, identity, and intercultural approaches intersect for multilingual learners in complex and varied settings. Through global examples, it explores how identities and multilingualism are situated within, and surrounding intercultural experiences. This book examines the different theoretical interpretations as encountered and used in different contexts. By doing so, it helps readers better understand how teachers approach multilingualism and diversity in a range of contexts. "This landmark volume challenges us to engage personally with the real-life situations of people's experience, in the intersection between their multilingualism, their identity and their intercultural understanding. The exploration of this intersection in different global contexts breaks new ground in research and theory. I am excited by the many new implications and rich learning that this work will support, in education. The volume displays indepth understanding of its three key concepts and it proposes stimulating new ideas of the relationship between them. With its capacity to change perceptions and understanding, it needs to be required reading on many university reading lists!" Dr Robyn Moloney Honorary Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University Moloney, R., Lobytsyna, M., DeNobile, J. (2022) Interculturality in Schools: Practice and Theory. Routledge Moloney, R., and Mansour, S. (2022) Language and Spirit: exploring languages, religions and spirituality in Australia today. Palgrave Macmillan.

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