Engage Preschoolers in Talking, Reading, and Writing Their Way to Literacy LearningWhat every preschool teacher needs! Filled with practical strategies and useful information on language andliteracy,
This book offers insight into the spread and impact of English language education in China within China’s broader educational, social, economical and political changes. The author's critical perspecti
"Group Work in the English Language Curriculum explores how using small groups in second language classrooms supports language learning. The book asserts that both language and learning are first and
Bringing together sign language linguistics and the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book focuses on the use of signing space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). On the basis of small-scale corpus dat
This volume tests the hypothesis that elements at the left periphery of discourse units have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play a
A growing number of studies have begun to examine the influence of language-specific factors on language acquisition. During language acquisition, German children from six years on use structures that
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Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity. In this volume, 37 new essays provide a s
Most current theories of lexical access in speech production are designed to capture the behaviour of young adults – typically college students. However, young adults represent a minority of the world
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Packed with lessons, sample texts, and strategies, this book helps teachers use ELL students’ personal experiences to improve their oral language, reading comprehension, and writing skills.