Applied Linguistics

Academic Publishing: Issues and Challenges in the Construction of Knowledge e-Book

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Ken Hylans

Ken Hyland provides an authoritative discussion of key aspects of writing for academic publication.
As well as outlining implications for pedagogy in the English-language classroom, Hyland fully evaluates the social practices surrounding knowledge creation and the political implications of global publishing.

Understanding Second Language Acquisition e-book for Kindle

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Second Edition

Rod Ellis

This new, fully updated edition continues to provide an authoritative and highly readable introduction to key areas of theory and research in second language acquisition.

Understanding Second Language Acquisition e-book

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Second Edition

Rod Ellis

This new, fully updated edition continues to provide an authoritative and highly readable introduction to key areas of theory and research in second language acquisition.

Understanding Second Language Acquisition

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Second Edition

Rod Ellis

This new, fully updated edition continues to provide an authoritative and highly readable introduction to key areas of theory and research in second language acquisition.

Second Language Learning in the Early School Years: Trends and Contexts e-Book for Kindle

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Victoria Murphy

Second Language Learning in the Early School Years: Trends and Contexts e-book

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Victoria Murphy

Second Language Learning in the Early School Years: Trends and Contexts provides a detailed exploration of second language learning in the early years, examining past and present research evidence on bilingualism, second language, and foreign language learning in childhood, and arguing that young children can learn multiple languages without adverse effect on their overall language development in any of their languages.

Teaching Language as Communication e-book

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H G Widdowson

This book develops a rational approach to the teaching of language as communication, based on a careful consideration of the nature of language and of the language user's activities. It will stimulate all language teachers to investigate the ideas that inform their own practice.

Conversational Interaction in Second Language Acquisition e-book

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Alison Mackey

This edited collection of empirical studies provides insights into a wide variety of issues at the center of current research into the relationship between conversational interaction and second language learning outcomes.

Form-focused Instruction and Teacher Education e-book

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Sandra Fotos and Hossein Nassaji

An overview of form-focused instruction as an option for second language grammar teaching. It combines theoretical concerns, classroom practices, and teacher education.

Formulaic Language: Pushing the Boundaries e-book

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Alison Wray

Examines how formulaic language ("lexical chunks") is used in a variety of real-life situations.

Presents a framework for examining the existence and function of formulaic language and tests it extensively against language data within a wide variety of language samples. Formulaic language is a fast-growing area of applied linguistic research, and the author is a key figure in this field.