Approaching English Language Research

Approaching English Language Research
Author: Desmond Allison
Publisher: NUS Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789971692582

This book is designed to help students and other interested readers approach research in English Language studies. Its concerns include project, dissertation and thesis research and writing.

Continuum Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

Continuum Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
Author: Brian Paltridge
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2010-04-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0826499252

The Continuum Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students. The book includes: * qualitative and quantitative methods * research techniques and approaches * ethical considerations * sample studies * a glossary of key terms * resources for students As well as covering a range of methodological issues it looks at numerous areas in depth, including researching gender and language, language and identity, pragmatics, vocabulary, and grammar. Comprehensive and accessible, this will be the essential guide to research methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students in applied linguistics and language studies.

Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
Author: María del Pilar García Mayo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2013-02-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027272220

Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but complementary answers to the understanding of oral and written data produced by young and older learners in different settings. The main goal of this volume is to provide the reader with updated reviews of the major contemporary approaches to SLA, the research carried out within them and, wherever appropriate, the implications and/or applications for theory, research and pedagogy that might derive from the available empirical evidence. The book is intended for SLA researchers as well as for graduate (MA, Ph.D.) students in SLA research, applied linguistics and linguistics, as the different chapters will be a guide in their research within the approaches presented. The volume will also be of interest to professionals from other fields interested in the SLA process and the different explanations that have been put forward to account for it.

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
Author: Brian Paltridge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1472524810

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students. The book includes: * qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods * research techniques and approaches * ethical considerations * sample studies * a glossary of key terms * resources for students As well as covering a range of methodological issues, it looks at numerous areas in depth, including language learning strategies, motivation, teacher beliefs, language and identity, pragmatics, vocabulary, and grammar. Comprehensive and accessible, this is the essential guide to research methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students in applied linguistics and language studies.

Literature in language learning: new approaches

Literature in language learning: new approaches
Author: Ana Bela Almeida
Publisher: Research-publishing.net
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2020-09-14
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 2490057685

Which are the new directions in learning and teaching Modern Languages and English through literature? How can we use songs to talk about poetry in the language classroom, and how can creative writing workshops help with language teaching beyond the classroom? These are just a few questions addressed in this volume. Researchers and practitioners in Modern Languages and English as a Foreign Language share theory and their best practice on this pedagogical approach.

English Historical Linguistics

English Historical Linguistics
Author: Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108179487

Written by an international team of leading scholars, this engaging textbook on the study of English historical linguistics is uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches and perspectives. Each chapter features textboxes, case studies, suggestions for further reading and exercises, enabling students to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and guiding them on undertaking further research. The case studies and exercises guide students in approaching and manipulating empirical data, providing them with hands-on experience of conducting linguistic research. An extensive variety of approaches, from traditional to contemporary, is treated, including generative approaches, historical sociolinguistic and pragmatic approaches, psycholinguistic perspectives, grammaticalization theory, and discourse-based approaches, as well as perspectives on standardization and language variation. Each chapter applies the concepts discussed to data from the history of English, and a glossary of key terms enables easy navigation and quick cross-referencing. An essential resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of the history of English linguistics.

The Natural Approach

The Natural Approach
Author: Stephen D. Krashen
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 191
Release: 1990-04-01
Genre: Language acquisition
ISBN: 9780136120292

Experimental Research Methods in Language Learning

Experimental Research Methods in Language Learning
Author: Aek Phakiti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441122400

Language learning research aims to describe and fully explain how and why language learning takes place, but can fall short of its stated purpose. Systematic, rigorous research is needed if the growing field of language learning is to progress methodically. This book demonstrates and fully explains such a methodology. Given that research in language acquisition yields practical pedagogical implications, it is crucial that it is rigorous and accurate. This book offers a quantitative research methodology that relies on statistical analysis in order to make inferences and conclusions about language learning. Experimental research aims to understand differences between or within groups of learners under manipulated environments. It requires strict control of conditions, enabling interpretations with a low factor of error. Aek Phakiti provides step-by-step guidelines and underlying principles, epistemology and methodology, in a book that is essential for advanced students of language acquisition and language and education.

Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language

Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language
Author: Mary Hayes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0190611057

The History of the English Language is a traditional course whose instructors are tasked with balancing various institutional, curricular, and student needs. Additionally, the course's prodigious subject poses challenges for new as well as veteran instructors. It encompasses a broad chronological, geographic, and disciplinary scope and, in the twenty-first-century classroom, has come to account for English's transformative relationship with the internet and social media. In Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language, experienced instructors explain the influences and ingenuity behind their successful teaching practices.