Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts

Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts
Author: Ali Shehadeh
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9027207232

This volume extends the Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice books series by deliberately exploring the potential of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in a range of EFL contexts. It is specifically devoted to providing empirical accounts about how TBLT practice is being developed and researched in diverse educational contexts, particularly where English is not the dominant language. By including contributions from settings as varied as Japan, China, Korea, Venezuela, Turkey, Spain, and France, this collection of 13 studies provides strong indications that the research and implementation of TBLT in EFL settings is both on the rise and interestingly diverse, not least because it must respond to the distinct contexts, constraints, and possibilities of foreign language learning. The book will be of interest to SLA researchers and students in applied linguistics and TESOL. It will also be of value to course designers and language teachers who come from a broad range of formal and informal educational settings encompassing a wide range of ages and types of language learners.

UKG Vocabulary Workbook

UKG Vocabulary Workbook
Author: BPI
Publisher: BPI Publishing
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 8184970579

UKG Vocabulary Workbook

The Transmission of Anglo-Norman

The Transmission of Anglo-Norman
Author: Richard P. Ingham
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027208263

This investigation contributes to issues in the study of second language transmission by considering the well-documented historical case of Anglo-Norman. Within a few generations of the establishment of this variety, its phonology diverged sharply from that of continental French, yet core syntactic distinctions continued to be reliably transmitted. The dissociation of phonology from syntax transmission is related to the age of exposure to the language in the experience of ordinary users of the language. The input provided to children acquiring language in a naturalistic communicative setting, even though one of a school institution, enabled them to acquire target-like syntactic properties of the inherited variety. In addition, it allowed change to take place along the lines of transmission by incrementation. A linguistic environment combining the 'here-and-now' aspects of ordinary first language acquisition with the growing cognitive complexity of an educational meta-language appears to have been adequate for this variety to be transmitted as a viable entity that encoded the public life of England for centuries.

Grammatical Theory and Metascience

Grammatical Theory and Metascience
Author: Esa Itkonen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 385
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027209065

In this book, the author analyses the nature of the science of grammar. After presenting some methodological and historical background, he sets forth a theory of language and of grammar, showing that the science of grammar is not an empirical, but a normative science, comparable to logic and philosophy, characterized by the use of the method of explication.

Jack B. Yeats

Jack B. Yeats
Author: Hilary Pyle
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780389208921

Jack B. Yeats was the son of portrait painter John Butler Yeats and younger brother of the poet William Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in Sligo, which remained a permanent source of inspiration for his painting. He studied art in London and soon earned a high reputation for pen and ink drawings in magazines. In 1910, after a period in Devon, he settled in Dublin where he devoted himself to painting in oils. Yeats was closely connected to the literary personalities of his day; John Masefield and J. M. Synge became his close friends. In the 1930s and '40s he published novels and plays which won the admiration of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. His paintings have been exhibited in many major galleries, and continue to be exhibited thirty years after his death.