Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English

2009-04-08
Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English

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  • Author: Marcus Callies
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027289484
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production and comprehension of specific means of information highlighting in English by native speakers and German learners of English as a foreign language, presenting triangulated experimental and learner corpus data as corroborating evidence. The study focuses on learners’ use of discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, preposing, and it- and wh-clefts, an underexplored field in SLA research to date.The book also provides a critical re-assessment of the study of pragmatics within SLA. It has largely been neglected to date that L2 pragmatic knowledge includes more than the sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic abilities for understanding and performing speech acts. Thus, the book argues for an extension of the scope of inquiry in interlanguage pragmatics beyond the cross-cultural investigation of speech acts. It also discusses pedagogical implications for foreign language teaching and will be of interest to applied linguists and SLA researchers, language teachers and curriculum designers.

Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English. The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface in Second Language Acquisition

2009
Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English. The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface in Second Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Marcus Callies
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
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Subordination in English

2018-07-09
Subordination in English

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  • Author: Elena Seoane
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3110581051
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 286

This book provides a collection of articles on subordination in English framed from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. It covers ample areas of the history of the major subordinated structures of English and their recent development in various native and non-native varieties. Most contributions are based on large electronic databases and corpora of written and spoken texts. The book focuses on the continuum that links subordinated and coordinated structures in a fluid way, shows their permanent state of flux, and sheds light on the whole system's dynamic essence by discussing a large number of explanatory principles at work in shaping it. Many of these are well-known from the grammaticalization and the Construction Grammar theories, such as the concepts of attractor, multi-sourcing, inheritance, categorial incursion, metaphorization or exaptation. This volume represents the latest trends in the field by some of its most prestigious specialists.

Chinese as a Second Language Research from Different Angles

2024-04-04
Chinese as a Second Language Research from Different Angles

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  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 900467814X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 369

A crucial question for Chinese as a Second Language research is how to help elevate Chinese language teaching methodology to the level of other world language methodologies such as English, Spanish and German. This work goes in two directs. One explores how to apply research results achieved in Chinese linguistics to Chinese language teaching and the other is engaged in creating a strong applied linguistics research field that supports Chinese language teaching. CASLAR scholars are mainly involved in the latter one. This book is a representative sample of their research endeavors.

Learner Corpus Research

2017-11-30
Learner Corpus Research

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  • Author: Vaclav Brezina
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1474272908
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 199

This volume showcases original, agenda-setting studies in the field of learner corpus research of both spoken and written production. The studies have important applications for classroom pedagogy. The volume brings readers up-to-date with new written and spoken learner corpora, often looking at previously under-examined variables in learner corpus investigations. It also demonstrates innovative applications of learner corpus findings, addressing issues such as the effect of task, the effect of learner variables and the nature of learner language. The volume is of significant interest to researchers working in corpus linguistics, learner corpus research, second language acquisition and English for Academic and Specific Purposes, as well to practitioners interested in the application of the findings in language teaching and assessment.

Referring in a Second Language

2020-03-19
Referring in a Second Language

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  • Author: Jonathon Ryan
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 0429554532
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 233

The introduction and tracking of reference to people or individuals, known as referential movement, is a central feature of coherence, and accounts for “about every third word of discourse”. Located at the intersection of pragmatics and grammar, reference is now proving a rich and enduring source of insight into second language development. The challenge for second language (L2) learners involves navigating the selection and positioning of reference in the target language, continually shifting and balancing the referential means used to maintain coherence, while remaining acutely sensitive to the discourse and social context. The present volume focuses on how L2 learners meet that challenge, bringing together both eminent and up-and-coming researchers in the field of L2 acquisition. The chapters address a range of problems in second language acquisition (SLA) (e.g., form-function mapping, first language [L1] influence, developmental trajectories), and do so in relation to various theoretical approaches to reference (e.g., Accessibility Theory, Givenness Hierarchy). The global outlook of these studies relates to the L2 acquisition of English, French, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish and covers a diverse range of situational contexts including heritage language learning, English as a medium of instruction, and the development of sociolinguistic competence.

The Acquisition of Chinese as a First and Second Language

2020-11-25
The Acquisition of Chinese as a First and Second Language

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  • Author: Xiaohong Wen
  • Publisher: MDPI
  • ISBN: 3039432702
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 174

This volume, through highly selective and rigorous review processes, has collected eight empirical studies showcasing research advances in multiple domains including child first language, adult additional language, and heritage language acquisition. The studies are theoretically motivated and have adopted a spectrum of innovative methodological strategies to achieve a broader understanding of the nature of learning and the learning process. The volume encompasses a wide range of contents: 1) The L1 and L2 acquisition of syntax, semantics, phonetics, and the syntax-discourse interface; 2) Data comparisons across different learner groups: L1 Chinese children, L2 Chinese learners, and Chinese heritage speakers; 3) Acquisition of language skills: speaking, listening, and writing; and last but not least, 4) Instructional interventions including consciousness-raising and metacognitive strategy training. The volume is intended to bridge the gap between research and instruction by helping teachers understand their students and their learning. Informed by research, teachers can opt for appropriate pedagogical approaches and instructional conditions for their students. The volume is guest-edited by Xiaohong Wen, Professor in Applied Linguistics and Chinese language Acquisition at the University of Houston.

Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition

2008-05-14
Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Danuta Gabryś-Barker
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788920589
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 279

The volume consists of articles on issues relating to the morphosyntactic development of foreign language learners from different L1 backgrounds, in many cases involving languages which are typologically distant from English, such has Polish, Greek and Turkish. It highlights areas which may be expected to be especially transfer-prone at both the interlingual and intralingual levels. The articles in the first part report empirical studies on word morphology and sentence patterns and also look at the interface of lexis and grammar in the discourse and syntactic processing of foreign language learners. The second part elaborates on pedagogical issues concerning the acquisition of difficult grammatical features such as the English article system or the ‘s’ ending in the third person singular. It also comments more generally on the way pedagogic grammar functions in the learning of the L2.

Dotawo: a Journal of Nubian Studies

2015-06
Dotawo: a Journal of Nubian Studies

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  • Author: Dotawo Journal
  • Publisher: punctum books
  • ISBN: 0692458433
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 311

Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies offers a multi-disciplinary, diachronic view of all aspects of Nubian civilization. It brings to Nubian studies a new approach to scholarly knowledge: an open-access collaboration with DigitalCommons@Fairfield, an institutional repository of Fairfield University in Connecticut, USA, and open-access publishing house punctum books. The first two volumes of Dotawo have their origins in a Nubian language panel organized by Angelika Jakobi within the Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium held at the University of Cologne, May 22 to 24, 2013. Since many invited participants from Sudan were unable to get visas due to the shutdown of the German Embassy in Khartoum at that time, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation funded the organization of a second venue of specialists on modern Nubian languages. This so-called "Nubian Panel 2" was hosted by the Institute of African & Asian Studies at the University of Khartoum on September 18 and 19, 2013. This volume publishes the proceedings of that panel.Future volumes will address three more themes: 1) Nubian women; 2) Nubian place names; 3) and know-how and techniques in ancient Sudan. The calls for papers for the first two volumes may be found on the back of this volume. The third volume is already in preparation with the assistance of Marc Maillot of the Section française de la direction des Antiquités du Soudan, Department of Archeology. We welcome proposals for additional themed volumes, and invite individual submissions on any topic relevant to Nubian studies.TABLE OF CONTENTS // Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, "Old Nubian Relative Clauses" -- Mohamed K. Khalil, "The Verbal Plural Marker in Nobiin (Nile Nubian)" -- Angelika Jakobi and El-Shafie El-Guzuuli,"Relative Clauses in Andaandi (Nile Nubian)" -- El-Shafie El-Guzuuli, "The Uses and Orthography of the Verb "Say" in Andaandi (Nile Nubian)" -- Ahmed Sokarno Abdel-Hafiz, "Focus Constructions in Kunuz Nubian" -- Abeer Bashir, "Address and Reference Terms in Midob (Darfur Nubian)" -- Waleed Alshareef, "The Consonant System of Abu Jinuk (Kordofan Nubian)" -- Gumma Ibrahim Gulfan,"Possessor Ascension in Taglennaa (Kordofan Nubian)" -- Ali Ibrahim and Angelika Jakobi,"Attributive Modifiers in Taglennaa (Kordofan Nubian)" -- Thomas Kuku Alaki and Russell Norton,"Kadaru-Kurtala Phonemes" -- Khaleel Ismail, "Tabaq Kinship Terms" -- Khalifa Jabreldar Khalifa,"An Initial Report on Tabaq Knowledge and Proficiency" -- Angelika Jakobi and Ahmed Hamdan,"Number Marking on Karko Nouns" -- Grzegorz Ochała and Giovanni Ruffini, "Nubische Berichtigungsliste (1)"

Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching

Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching

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  • Author: Muthyala Udaya
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031459865
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 149