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.".. collection of selected articles from the joint International Maastricht-odz Duo Colloquia on Translation and Meaning ..."--Introduction.
Improving Foreign Language Teaching provides teachers and teacher trainers with a research-based structure for the effective teaching and assessment of second languages. As well as outlining a model for teacher development, the book identifies and exemplifies eight key principles for effective language learning, which can be used to guide curriculum design and decisions about classroom pedagogy. Improving Foreign Language Teaching also presents practical activities, related materials, and guidance on how student progress can be monitored and recorded. Based on the research of the authors and other international experts, together with the work of a consortium established by the authors and teachers in a range of secondary schools, the book focusses on the development of language skills and communicative competence. It also proposes an assessment system which better reflects how learners progress in language learning than current models. Taking as its starting point the challenge of a curriculum in flux and complex pedagogical approaches, this book offers clear research-informed guidance for effective planning, teaching and learning. It will be essential reading for all those concerned with the improvement of language learning and teaching in the secondary classroom.
How do media inform our representations of the Other and how does this influence intercultural / international relations? While officially dialogues between different national societies are conducted by diplomats in bilateral and multilateral settings, in practice journalists also participate every day in such dialogues through the phenomenon of the “international media echo” in which they report on each others’ societies. Until now, media have only been investigated for their potential role in the foreign policy of specific states. In a case study involving media in three national cultures and languages (French, American and Russian), this book presents an interdisciplinary framework that combines quantitative and qualitative analyses for the study of the international media echo in an intercultural / international relations perspective. In particular, the fundamental functioning of “spirals of anti-Other rhetoric”, i.e. media wars, is examined in a Critical Discourse Analysis approach completed with Social Identity Theory and International Relations theories.
Exam Board: ISEB Level: 13+ Subject: French For the current syllabus and all exams up to and including Summer 2019. French for Common Entrance 13+ Exam Practice Exercises provides comprehensive practice for the Reading and Writing sections of the 13+ Common Entrance exam. All questions from a varied range of topics are modelled on the style of ISEB exam papers. This is an ideal book for pupils needing extra practice and, together with the answer book, it provides a comprehensive tool to understand expectations and monitor progress. - Endorsed by ISEB - Provides comprehensive practice for Common Entrance French at 13+ - Enables pupils to practise exam-style questions before they enter the exam room, so that they can build confidence and identify gaps in knowledge An accompanying audio download is available from www.galorepark.co.uk
Please note, this resource is suitable for the exams up to June 2022. New revision resources will be available from Spring 2022 for the exams from November 2022. Exam board: ISEB Level: 13+ Subject: French First exam: Autumn 2019 This book features a wealth of exam-style questions, which have been completely revised and updated for the new French ISEB Common Entrance 13+ exam beginning Autumn 2019. Exercises are differentiated by Levels 1 and 2 and are modelled on ISEB papers, covering a variety of topics. This book also includes answers to every question, as well as marking guidance. - Endorsed by ISEB for the new exam beginning Autumn 2019 - Provides comprehensive practice for French at 13+ Common Entrance - Builds students' confidence and helps identify any gaps in knowledge The accompanying audio for this book is available free from galorepark.co.uk/frenchaudio.
Is normal language acquisition possible in spite of serious intellectual impairment? The answer, it would appear, is positive. This book summarizes and discusses recent evidence in this respect.
The main goal of this study, first published in 1994, is to present a substantial part of the grammar of French. This goal is achieved by bringing together two aspects of syntactic investigation. First, the study focuses on a vast range of French clausal phenomena, including Object Raising constructions, Causative constructions of various types, Impersonal constructions, amongst many others. Second, the investigation is conducted within the framework of Relational Grammar. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
Exam Board: ISEB Level: 13+ Subject: French For the current syllabus and all exams up to and including Summer 2019. This book provides comprehensive answers to all the exercises in French for Common Entrance 13+ Exam Practice Questions, which are modelled on the style and level required of ISEB exam papers - Endorsed by ISEB - Provides comprehensive practice and answers for Common Entrance French at 13+ - Enables pupils to practise exam-style questions before they enter the exam room, so that they can build confidence and identify gaps in knowledge
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of opinion-heavy texts on the Web: opinions of Internet users, comments on social networks, etc. Automating the synthesis of opinions has become crucial to gaining an overview on a given topic. Current automatic systems perform well on classifying the subjective or objective character of a document. However, classifications obtained from polarity analysis remain inconclusive, due to the algorithms' inability to understand the subtleties of human language. Automatic Detection of Irony presents, in three stages, a supervised learning approach to predicting whether a tweet is ironic or not. The book begins by analyzing some everyday examples of irony and presenting a reference corpus. It then develops an automatic irony detection model for French tweets that exploits semantic traits and extralinguistic context. Finally, it presents a study of portability in a multilingual framework (Italian, English, Arabic).
