Foreign Language Input

Author : Rebekah Rast
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847690416
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Language Input written by Rebekah Rast and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2008 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive study of the starting point of second language acquisition. With its focus on the language input that learners receive and what they do with this input, the study sheds light on questions still unanswered in second language acquisition literature.

Author : Natsuko Shintani
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267308
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Input-based Tasks in Foreign Language Instruction for Young Learners written by Natsuko Shintani and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) can be carried out with young beginner learners in a foreign language context. It addresses how TBLT can be introduced and implemented in a difficult instructional context where traditional teaching approaches are entrenched. The book reports a study that examined how TBLT can be made to work in such a context. The study compares the effectiveness of TBLT and the traditional “present-practice-produce” (PPP) approach for teaching English to young beginner learners in Japan. The TBLT researched in this study is unique as it employed input-based tasks rather than oral production tasks. The study shows that such tasks constitute an ideal means of inducting beginner learners into listening and processing English. It also shows that such tasks lead naturally to the learners trying to use the L2 in communication. It provides evidence to support the claim that TBLT promotes the kind of naturalistic interaction which is beneficial for the development of both interactional and linguistic competence. The book concludes with suggestions for how to implement TBLT in Japanese school contexts.

Author : Susan M. Gass
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Input in Second Language Acquisition written by Susan M. Gass and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1985 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan M. Gass
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780805835281
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Language Acquisition written by Susan M. Gass and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a thorough revision of the highly successful text first published in 1994. The authors retain the multidisciplinary approach that presents research from linguistics, sociology, psychology, and education, in a format designed for use in an introductory course for undergraduate or graduate students. The research is updated throughout and there are new sections and chapters in this second edition as well. New chapters cover child language acquisition (first and second), Universal Grammar, and instructed language learning; new sections address issues, such as what data analysis doesn't show, replication of research findings, interlanguage transfer (multilingual acquisition and transfer), the aspect hypothesis, general nativism, connectionist approaches, and implicit/explicit knowledge. Major updates include nonlanguage influences and the lexicon. The workbook, Second Language Learning Data Analysis, Second Edition, makes an ideal accompaniment to the text.

Author : Steve Kaufmann
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1420873296
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way of the Linguist written by Steve Kaufmann and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey. It is now a cliché that the world is a smaller place. We think nothing of jumping on a plane to travel to another country or continent. The most exotic locations are now destinations for mass tourism. Small business people are dealing across frontiers and language barriers like never before. The Internet brings different languages and cultures to our finger-tips. English, the hybrid language of an island at the western extremity of Europe seems to have an unrivalled position as an international medium of communication. But historically periods of cultural and economic domination have never lasted forever. Do we not lose something by relying on the wide spread use of English rather than discovering other languages and cultures? As citizens of this shrunken world, would we not be better off if we were able to speak a few languages other than our own? The answer is obviously yes. Certainly Steve Kaufmann thinks so, and in his busy life as a diplomat and businessman he managed to learn to speak nine languages fluently and observe first hand some of the dominant cultures of Europe and Asia. Why do not more people do the same? In his book The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey, Steve offers some answers. Steve feels anyone can learn a language if they want to. He points out some of the obstacles that hold people back. Drawing on his adventures in Europe and Asia, as a student and businessman, he describes the rewards that come from knowing languages. He relates his evolution as a language learner, abroad and back in his native Canada and explains the kind of attitude that will enable others to achieve second language fluency. Many people have taken on the challenge of language learning but have been frustrated by their lack of success. This book offers detailed advice on the kind of study practices that will achieve language breakthroughs. Steve has developed a language learning system available online at: www.thelinguist.com.

Author : Stephen D. Krashen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition written by Stephen D. Krashen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thorsten Piske
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847691099
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Input Matters in SLA written by Thorsten Piske and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together well-known and new authors to discuss a topic of mutual interest to second language researchers and teachers alike: input. Reader-friendly chapters offer a range of existing and new perspectives on input in morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology.

Author : Susan M. Gass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351700308
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner written by Susan M. Gass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years after its first publication, Susan M. Gass’s Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner has become a classical text in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). This new printing includes the original text, along with a new preface that comprises individual consultations between the author and Alison Mackey, Rod Ellis, and Mike Long on the importance of the project two decades later. The volume provides an important view of the relationship between input, interaction, and SLA. In so doing, it should prove useful to those whose major concern is with the acquisition of a second or foreign language, as well as those who are primarily interested in these issues from a pedagogical perspective. The book does not explicate or advocate a particular teaching methodology, but does attempt to lay out some of the underpinnings of what is involved in interaction—what interaction is and what purpose it serves. Research in SLA is concerned with the knowledge that second language learners do and do not acquire, and how that knowledge comes about. This book ties these issues together from three perspectives: the input/interaction framework, information-processing, and learnability. This Routledge Linguistics Classic remains a key text for all SLA scholars and an essential supplementary volume for students on SLA courses.

Author : Clare Gallaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521437257
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Input and Interaction in Language Acquisition written by Clare Gallaway and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language addressed to children, or 'Baby Talk', became the subject of research interest thirty years ago. Since then, the linguistic environment of infants and toddlers has been widely studied. Input and Interaction in Language Acquisition is an up-to-date statement of the facts and controversies surrounding 'Baby Talk', its nature and likely effects. With contributions from leading linguists and psychologists, it explores language acquisition in different cultures and family contexts, in typical and atypical learners, and in second and foreign language learners. It is designed as a sequel to the now famous Talking to Children, edited by Catherine Snow and Charles Ferguson, and Professor Snow here provides an introduction, comparing issues of importance in the field today with the previous concerns of researchers.

Author : Anna Matis
Publisher : SEIDLITZ EDUCATION, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1732194807
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive Foreign Language Classroom written by Anna Matis and published by SEIDLITZ EDUCATION, LLC. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive Foreign Language Classroom are research-based strategies designed to increase comprehensible input and provide low-stress opportunities for language output and interaction. These practical techniques provide an essential foundation that ensures students are motivated and engaged, while offering access points to any target language in a way that is easy to implement and comprehensively scaffolded.