Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy: A corpus-driven approach by Ute Römer

By Ute Römer

This ebook provides a large-scale corpus-driven examine of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an research of normal linguistic curiosity with a pedagogically influenced one. a scientific comparative research of greater than 10,000 innovative kinds taken from the most important current corpora of spoken British English and from a small corpus of EFL textbook texts highlights a number of variations among genuine language use and textbook language in regards to the distribution of progressives, their most well-liked contexts, favoured services, and common lexical-grammatical styles. at the foundation of those ameliorations, a couple of pedagogical implications are derived, the combination of which then results in a primary draft of an cutting edge thought of training progressives - an idea which responds to 3 key standards in pedagogical description: typicality, authenticity, and communicative software. The research additionally demonstrates that many present money owed of the revolutionary are beside the point in numerous respects and that now not sufficient awareness is being paid to lexical-grammatical relations.! Winner of the "Wissenschaftspreis Hannover 2006" for notable learn monographs !

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Parlons live. une langue de la baltique by Fanny De Sivers

By Fanny De Sivers

Logiquement, l. a. langue reside, mixte et minoritaire en Lettonie, ne devait pas survivre à l'ère soviétique. Mais beaucoup de Lettons l. a. redécouvrent aujourd'hui, lui redonnent une position de choix dans leur patrimoine cosmopolite. Il n'en faut pas plus pour que ce parler ancestral, proche guardian du finnois et de l'estonien, retrouve sa vitalité - et pour qu'une linguiste de là-bas et d'ici saisisse l'occasion.

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The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern by Yeounsuk Lee, Maki Harano Hubbard

By Yeounsuk Lee, Maki Harano Hubbard

Available for the 1st time in English, The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in sleek Japan (1996) is Lee Yeounsuk’s award-winning examine the heritage and beliefs in the back of the development of kokugo (national language). sooner than the Meiji interval (1868–1912), the belief of a unmarried, unified jap language didn't exist. purely as Japan used to be constructing itself as a latest geographical region and an empire with increasing colonies did there come up the necessity for a countrywide language to build and maintain its nationwide identity.

Re-examining debates and controversies over genbun itchi (unification of written and spoken languages) and different language reform activities, Lee discusses the contributions of Ueda Kazutoshi (1867–1937) and Hoshina Koichi (1872–1955) within the construction of kokugo and strikes us one step towards realizing how the ideology of kokugo solid a spell over linguistic id in sleek Japan. She examines the inspiration of the unshakable homogeneity of the japanese language―a trust born of the political weather of early-twentieth-century Japan and its colonization of different East Asian countries―urging us to concentrate on the linguistic recognition that underlies "scientific" scholarship and language regulations. Her severe dialogue of the development of kokugo uncovers a pressure of cultural nationalism that has been lengthy nurtured in Japan’s schooling approach and educational traditions. The ideology of kokugo, argues Lee, has to be well-known either as a tutorial gear and a political concept.

The Ideology of Kokugo was once the 1st paintings to discover Japan’s linguistic awareness on the sunrise of its modernization. it's going to accordingly be of curiosity not to in simple terms linguists, but additionally historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and students within the fields of schooling and cultural studies.

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Curious Lessons in the Museum: The Pedagogic Potential of by Claire Robins

By Claire Robins

Among contemporary modern artwork and museological guides, there were fairly few which direct recognition to the targeted contributions that 20th and twenty-first century artists have made to gallery and museum interpretation practices. There are fewer nonetheless that know the pedagogic capability of interventionist artistic endeavors in galleries and museums. This booklet fills that hole and demonstrates how artists were making curious yet, none-the-less, valuable contributions to museum schooling and curation for a while. Claire Robins investigates intensive the phenomenon of artists' interventions in museums and examines their pedagogic implications. She additionally brings to gentle and seeks to solve the various contradictions surrounding artists' interventions, the place at the one hand modern artists were accused of alienating audiences and, at the different, seem to have performed an important position in orchestrating confident advancements to the way in which that studying is outlined and configured in museums. She examines the disruptive and parodic innovations that artists have hired, and argues for that they are often understood as a part of a movement to re-establish the museum as a discursive discussion board. This worthy ebook can be crucial analyzing for college kids and students of museum stories, in addition to paintings and cultural reviews.

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Task-Based Language Learning - Insights from and for L2 by Heidi Byrnes, Rosa M. Manchón

By Heidi Byrnes, Rosa M. Manchón

The booklet seeks to magnify the theoretical scope, examine schedule, and practices linked to TBLT in a two-way dynamic, through exploring how insights from writing may reconfigure our knowing of projects and, in flip, how paintings linked to TBLT may benefit the educational and educating of writing. on the way to increase the area of job and to strengthen the tutorial pursuits of TBLT, it adopts either a psycholinguistic and a textual meaning-making orientation. Following an issues-oriented introductory bankruptcy, half I of the quantity explores tenets, equipment, and findings in task-oriented thought and learn within the context of writing; the chapters partially II current empirical findings on task-based writing by means of investigating how writing initiatives are applied, how writers differentially reply to initiatives, and the way initiatives can give a contribution to language improvement. A coda bankruptcy summarizes the volume’s contribution and indicates instructions for advancing TBLT constructs and learn agendas.

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New Directions in Language Learning Psychology by Christina Gkonou, Dietmar Tatzl, Sarah Mercer

By Christina Gkonou, Dietmar Tatzl, Sarah Mercer

This booklet explores strength new instructions within the growing to be box of language studying psychology. the person chapters conceal theoretical and conceptual advancements and cutting edge methodological designs, whereas additionally exploring useful implications. Language studying psychology is a colourful box of analysis that sometimes contains constructs from social and academic psychology, which it considers when it comes to their relevance for the area of language studying. the varied theoretical and empirical chapters learn quite a number prevalent and lesser-known constructs, highlighting the significance of considering either learner and instructor psychologies, and recognising the complexity, dynamism and situatedness of mental constructs, in addition to the worth of utilizing different examine methodologies. it truly is was hoping that those ‘new instructions’ relating populations, constructs and theoretical and methodological frameworks will pave the way in which for cutting edge destiny advancements during this bright field.