The Language of Learning

The Language of Learning

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  • Author: Margaret Berry Wilson
  • Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools, Inc.
  • ISBN: 1892989611
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

Your essential guide for teaching core competencies that every child needs for developing into a highly engaged, self-motivated learner. The Language of Learning offers a practical approach to teaching essential communication skills: Listening and understanding; Thinking before speaking; Speaking clearly and concisely; Asking thoughtful questions; Giving high-quality answers; Backing up opinions with reasons and evidence; Agreeing thoughtfully; Disagreeing respectfully.


The Language of Learning

The Language of Learning

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  • Author: J. Lynn McBrien
  • Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 132


The Good Language Learner

The Good Language Learner

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  • Author: Neil Naiman
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853593130
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 260

This book is one of the most influential research studies on Second Language Learning ever undertaken. The Good Language Learner addresses key problems for teachers about the strategies that successful learners use, the attitudes they show to the language they are learning, the nature of their most successful experiences and similar issues. It is based on the direct experience of a wide range of learners. It enables us to recognise the combined roles of fluency activity and natural communication on the one hand, and accuracy activity with formal understanding of the language system and the mistakes that one is liable to make as a learner, on the other hand. Few works of empirical analysis in language teaching have had so much influence, and this edition should be an essential component of any teacher's library in local authority centres, schools, teacher education institutions, and the home library of language teachers.


Transformative Language Learning and Teaching

Transformative Language Learning and Teaching

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  • Author: Betty Lou Leaver
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108836097
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 319

A seminal work in the field, this book shows how transformative education can be applied to world language programs.


Individual Differences in Language Learning

Individual Differences in Language Learning

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  • Author: Carol Griffiths
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030529002
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

This textbook takes a Complex Systems Theory approach to examine individual differences between learners and the potential impact of these variables on the process of acquiring a second language. The authors argue that individual variables cannot provide the complete picture, and that they must instead be understood as part of an interconnected and dynamic system of different factors in order to be useful in a language learning context. Written in an accessible style and suitable for final-year undergraduate and Masters-level students, the book includes clear definitions of key terms, discussion questions for classroom use, practical exercises and activities, and examples of real empirical studies that students and teachers can replicate in their own contexts. This textbook will be of interest to students taking TESOL and SLA courses and modules, as well as those on broader Applied Linguistics programmes.


Language Learning Unlocked

Language Learning Unlocked

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  • Author: Andrew Weiler
  • Publisher: Andrew Weiler
  • ISBN: 0987241605
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

If you have struggled to learn another language or you are looking for better ways to do it, look no further than this book. It looks into and explains why so many people have difficulties in learning foreign languages despite the fact that all of us learned our first with relative ease. It tells us what we need to do if we are to improve our language learning. It also provides a whole host of free downloadable resources to help learners implement some of the suggested practices. It can be used by itself, if you are an independent kind of learner, or it can be used in conjunction with courses so you can gain maximum benefit out of them.


Teacher Learning in Language Teaching

Teacher Learning in Language Teaching

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  • Author: Donald Freeman
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521559073
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 406

This book introduces a new field of educational research called teacher learning, as it applies to the teaching of languages. Up until recently, the study of second language teacher education has focused mainly on the knowledge base and specific skills needed for effective teaching. This book invites us to look at teacher education from a fresh point of view, through an exploration of the thinking and learning processes of individuals as they learn to teach. Seventeen original articles, based on studies done in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, provide examples of pioneering research into the ways that individuals learn to teach languages, and the roles that previous experience, social context, and professional training play in the process. The collection thus helps establish a research base for this newly developing field.


The Palgrave Handbook of Motivation for Language Learning

The Palgrave Handbook of Motivation for Language Learning

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  • Author: Martin Lamb
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030283801
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 704

This handbook offers an authoritative, one-stop reference work for the dynamic and expanding field of language learning motivation. The 32 chapters have been specially commissioned from the field’s most influential researchers and writers. Together they present a compelling picture of the motivations people have for learning languages, the diverse ways we can research motivation, and the implications for promoting and sustaining learners’ motivation. The first section outlines the main theoretical approaches to language learning motivation; the next section presents ways in which motivation theory has been applied in practice; the third section showcases examples of motivation research in particular contexts and with particular types of language learners; and the final section describes the exciting directions that contemporary research is taking, promising important new insights for academics and practitioners alike.


Aspects of Language and Learning

Aspects of Language and Learning

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  • Author: M.A.K. Halliday
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3662478218
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 149

This book is based on a series of lectures, which begin with a look at the history of the language that we use in order to encode our knowledge, particularly our scientific knowledge, i.e., the history of scientific English. Prof. M.A.K. Halliday poses the question of how a growing child comes to master this kind of language and put it to his or her own use as a means of learning. In subsequent chapters, Halliday explores the relationship between language, education and culture, again taking the language of science as the focal point for the discussion; and finally he draws these various themes together to construct a linguistic interpretation of how we learn and how we learn how to learn.


Aspects of Language Teaching

Aspects of Language Teaching

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  • Author: Rekha Aslam
  • Publisher: Northern Book Centre
  • ISBN: 9788172110253
  • Category : Language and languages
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 302

It involves theories from various fields and imbibes the findings in them as from the field of psychology, philosophy of language, technology, sociology, and so on. With such an inter-disciplinary orientation, language teaching consists of first language learning theories, second language learning theories, language teaching methods-a sub-part of which is language planning and teaching tasks, language testing and variables in language learning. This entails looking up different books on the various subjects which is not an easy proposition. This book presents the topic comprehensively in one place, saving in terms of time and effort, which can be put to more constructive use. Discuss the various aspects of language teaching and the theories, examples and illustrations, and how their applied form influences the theory. The chapters are classified as : language learning theories, language teaching methods, language planning and materials production, language teaching tasks, testing, programmed instruction and CA, EA, and variables in language learning.