Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Learning

Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Learning
Author: Joe Barcroft
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9027268053

This book focuses on theory, research, and practice related to lexical input processing (lex-IP), an exciting field exploring how learners allocate their limited processing resources when exposed to words and lexical phrases in the input. Unit 1 specifies parameters of lex-IP research among other levels of input processing as well as key components (form, meaning, mapping) and contexts (incidental/intentional) of vocabulary learning. Unit 2 highlights theoretical advances, such as the type of processing – resource allocation (TOPRA) model, consistent with research on tasks (sentence writing, word copying, word retrieval) that learners may perform during vocabulary learning. Unit 3 highlights patterns in partial word form learning and input-based effects, including the value of increased exposure, drawbacks of presenting vocabulary in semantic sets, and advantages of input enhancement, particularly with regard to increasing talker, speaking-style, and speaking-rate variability in spoken input. The book unifies a range of research pertinent to lex-IP, summarizes theoretical and instructional implications, and proposes intriguing new directions for future research.

Fragments of the Histories. Letters to Caesar

Fragments of the Histories. Letters to Caesar
Author: Sallust
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library
Total Pages: 655
Release: 2015-01-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674996861

The Histories of Sallust (86–35 BCE), while fragmentary, provide invaluable information about a crucial period of history from 78 to around 67 BCE. In this volume, John T. Ramsey has freshly edited the Histories and the two pseudo-Sallustian Letters to Caesar, completing the Loeb Classical Library edition of his works.

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill
Author: John Cunningham Wood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1991
Genre:
ISBN: 9780415069458