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  • The Think-Aloud Controversy in Second Language Research

    by Melissa A. Bowles ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    The Think-Aloud Controversy in Second Language Research aims to answer key questions about the validity and uses of think-alouds, verbal reports completed by research participants while they perform a task. It offers an overview of how think-alouds have been used in language research and presents a quantitative meta-analysis of findings from studies involving verbal tasks and think-alouds. The ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Unequal Chances

    Family Background and Economic Success

    Edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Melissa Osborne Groves ...
    Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? Unequal Chances provides new answers to these questions by ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Outcomes of University Spanish Heritage Language Instruction in the United States

    by Melissa A. Bowles, Julio Torres, Sara M. Beaudrie, Bonnie C. Holmes, Adrian Bello-Uriarte, Celia Chomón Zamora, Sara Fernández Cuenca, Damián Vergara Wilson, Claudia Holguín Mendoza, Diego Pascual y Cabo0, Josh Prada1, Florencia Giglio Henshaw2, Maria M. Carreira3 ...
    Series series Georgetown Studies in Spanish Linguistics series
    The first volume to explore the effectiveness of instructional methods for college-level Spanish heritage learnersIn the United States, heritage language speakers represent approximately 22 percent of the population and 29 percent of the school-age population. Until now, though, few studies have examined the outcomes of classroom teaching of heritage languages.Outcomes of University Spanish ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Acquisition of Spanish

    A Research Overview in Multilingual Learning Contexts

    by Eve Zyzik, Melissa A. Bowles ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    As the first text to present, in one place, a comprehensive and systematic overview of Spanish language acquisition research*, The Acquisition of Spanish: A Research Overview in Multilingual Learning Contexts* discusses a range of theoretical perspectives that outline issues surrounding language learning and the gaps in its research and teaching. Drawing on classic and current empirical studies on ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Mind and Context in Adult Second Language Acquisition

    Methods, Theory, and Practice

    by Cristina Sanz, Rusan Chen, Rebecca Adams, Akiko Fujii, Alison Mackey, Ronald P. Leow, Michael T. Ullman, Heidi Byrnes, Bill VanPatten, Harriet Wood Bowden0, Catherine A. Stafford1, Melissa A. Bowles2, Rebekha Abbuhl3, Kara Morgan-Short4 ...
    How do people learn nonnative languages? Is there one part or function of our brains solely dedicated to language processing, or do we apply our general information-processing abilities when learning a new language? In this book, an interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars and researchers presents an overview of the latter approach to adult second language acquisition and brings together, for ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition

    Learning to Use Language in Context

    by Kimberly L. Geeslin, Avizia Yim Long ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, exploring the variety of ways in which social context influences the acquisition of a second language. It reviews basic principles of sociolinguistics, provides a unified account of the multiple theoretical approaches to social ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Bilingual Competence and Bilingual Proficiency in Child Development

    by Norbert Francis ...
    A study of first and second language development in an indigenous community with implications for broader linguistic and cognitive issues.When two or more languages are part of a child's world, we are presented with a rich opportunity to learn something about language in general and about how the mind works. In this book, Norbert Francis examines the development of bilingual proficiency and the ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Insights into Non-native Vocabulary Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Dr. Rubén Chacón-Beltrán, Christian Abello-Contesse, María del Mar Torreblanca-López ...
    Series Book 52 - Second Language Acquisition
    In a field like L2 vocabulary teaching and learning where interest and research studies are burgeoning, this book offers a useful collection of papers that contains new ways of investigating vocabulary development, techniques for vocabulary teaching such as the Focus on Form hypothesis, word associations, and the use of concordance data. In addition, it tackles recent areas of analysis such as the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

    by Silvina Montrul ...
    Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage language does not fully develop. In the last decade, the acquisition of heritage languages has become a central focus of study within linguistics and applied linguistics. This work centres on the grammatical ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities

    by Lourdes Ortega, Heidi Byrnes ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    Researchers and educators routinely call for longitudinal research on language learning and teaching. The present volume explores the connection between longitudinal study and advanced language capacities, two under-researched areas, and proposes an agenda for future research. Five chapters probe theoretical and methodological reflections about the longitudinal study of advanced L2 capacities, ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Content and Language Integrated Learning

    Evidence from Research in Europe

    Edited by Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe, Dr. Rosa María Jiménez Catalán ...
    Series Book 41 - Second Language Acquisition
    This book contributes to the growth of interest in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), an approach to second/foreign language learning that requires the use of the target language to learn content. Within the framework of European strategies to promote multilingualism, CLIL has begun to be used extensively in a variety of language learning contexts, and at different educational ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Language and Social Relationship in Brazilian Portuguese

    The Pragmatics of Politeness

    by Dale April Koike ...
    "Give me the salt" and "Please pass the salt" make the same request, but in a polite situation the first utterance may give offense, while the second may not. How and why such differences in wording and intonation, in a particular context, produce different effects is the concern of pragmatics, the area of linguistics that deals with how speech is used in interaction. In this innovative study of ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD