Born In A Second Language

Author : Akosua Afiriyie-Hwedie
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 163834020X
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born in a Second Language written by Akosua Afiriyie-Hwedie and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Button Poetry Prize Winner Born in a Second Language investigates how translation shapes and alters both language and identity as speakers travel through space and time. In this book, languages are a means of conjuring an existence, of full expression and of defining who one becomes. Home exists on a spectrum: Botswana, Zambia, Ghana, one's body, music, mother, mother tongue etc. Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie's book is an exploration of African and female identity, navigating what it means to be in-between identities, languages and homes and how those in-between spaces brush up against each other, and are in themselves, a home too.

Author : David W. Lightfoot
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262044099
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born to Parse written by David W. Lightfoot and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, yielding a view of language variation not based on parameters defined at UG. In this book, David Lightfoot argues that just as some birds are born to chirp, humans are born to parse—predisposed to assign linguistic structures to their ambient external language. This approach to language acquisition makes two contributions to the development of Minimalist thinking. First, it minimizes grammatical theory, dispensing with three major entities: parameters; an evaluation metric for the selection of grammars; and any independent parsing mechanism. Instead, Lightfoot argues, children parse their ambient external language using their internal language. Universal Grammar is “open,” consistent with what children learn through parsing with their internal language system. Second, this understanding of language acquisition yields a new view of variable properties in language—properties that occur only in certain languages. Under the open UG vision, very specific language particularities arise in response to new parses. Both external and internal languages play crucial, interacting roles: unstructured, amorphous external language is parsed and an internal language system results. Lightfoot explores case studies that show such innovative parses of external language in the history of English: development of modal verbs, loss of verb movement, and nineteenth-century changes in the syntax of the verb to be. He then discusses how children learn through parsing; the role of parsing at the syntactic structure's interface with the externalization system and logical form; language change; and variable properties seen through the lens of an open UG.

Author : Patton O. Tabors
Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Child, Two Languages written by Patton O. Tabors and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical, engaging guide to helping early childhood educators understand and address the needs of English language learners.

Author : Donald Davis
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874835670
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing as a Second Language written by Donald Davis and published by august house. This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a method for teaching language that shifts away from separating writing and talking, integrating the spoken word into language education to make the transition to the "foreign" language of writing go more smoothly.

Author : Judith W. Rosenthal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113567664X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Undergraduate Second Language Education written by Judith W. Rosenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date description of the wide array of second language programs currently available to undergraduate students in the United States and abroad. It brings together, for the first time, detailed descriptions of programs in foreign language, English as a second language (ESL), dual language (bilingual), American Sign Language, Native American, and heritage languages. Addressing both theory and practice, the volume presents the historical development, current practices, and future directions of each type of program, along with detailed case studies. For second language teachers, academic administrators, and teacher educators, this Handbook provides information that will be useful in making instructional and programmatic planning decisions.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264181768
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy in the Information Age Final Report of the International Adult Literacy Survey written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents evidence on the nature and magnitude of the literacy gaps faced by OECD countries.

Author : Jane Orton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351206850
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Chinese as a Second Language written by Jane Orton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in analysis of Chinese and international educational concepts and classroom techniques currently used to teach Chinese as a Second Language, and a thorough review of recent research in the field, this volume identifies the learning challenges of the language for native English speakers. Orton and Scrimgeour assess the gap in knowledge and skills between learners’ initial and future proficiency levels as L2 Chinese speakers, map their needs as learners towards achieving a high language proficiency, and set out an informed, integrated teaching orientation and practice for the Chinese classroom that responds to those needs. Chapters in the volume address curriculum design, teaching diverse learners and levels, the learning challenges of Chinese oral and literacy skills, grammar and vocabulary, discourse development, cultural understanding, and the affordances of a visit to China. Filled with original and engaging teaching and learning tools and techniques, this book is an essential and rich content resource for primary and secondary teachers, and teacher candidates and educators in Chinese as a Second Language education.

Author : Tej K. Bhatia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756748
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Bilingualism written by Tej K. Bhatia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Bilingualism provides state-of-the-art treatments of the central issues that arise in consideration of the phenomena of bilingualism ranging from the representation of the two languages in the bilingual individual's brain to the various forms of bilingual education, including the status of bilingualism in each area of the world. Provides state-of-the-art coverage of a wide variety of topics, ranging from neuro- and psycho-linguistic research to studies of media and psychological counseling. Includes latest assessment of the global linguistic situation with particular emphasis on those geographical areas which are centers of global conflict and commerce. Explores new topics such as global media and mobile and electronic language learning. Includes contributions by internationally renowned researchers from different disciplines, genders, and ethnicities.

Author : Johanne Paradis
Publisher : Paul H Brookes Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781681254081
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dual Language Development & Disorders written by Johanne Paradis and published by Paul H Brookes Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Updated with the latest research, this third edition of the bestselling textbook prepares SLPs and educators to support young children who are dual language learners and make informed decisions about assessment and intervention when a disorder is present"--

Author : Cathleen Hellier
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN 13 : 0879352515
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth-Century English as a Second Language written by Cathleen Hellier and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us have no problem reading novels, plays, diaries, or newspapers from the eighteenth century. But speaking eighteenth-century English can be trickier. This series of lessons has been designed to help historical interpreters and reenactors better understand the language of the period and sound more like the persons they portray. Lessons contain grammar, vocabulary, and conversational etiquette for all levels of society.