A Guide to Writing in English as a Second Or Foreign Language

A Guide to Writing in English as a Second Or Foreign Language
Author: Dan J. Tannacito
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 554
Release: 1995
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

This bibliography offers English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) specialists and non-specialists a listing of almost 3,500 works in the field of writing in ESL/EFL, at all educational levels, from 1937 through 1993. It includes works focusing on how non-native speakers write in English, how they learn to write in English, how ESL and native-English-speaker (NES) compositions compare, how English is taught in contexts where it is used as a second or foreign language, and instructional materials developed to support writing in a second/foreign language. Citations include bibliographies, monographs, textbooks, periodicals, dissertations and some (unannotated) master's theses, conference papers, and Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) documents. An introductory section and a list of native languages addressed in the works precede the annotated entries. Author and subject indexes are also included. (MSE)

The Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language

The Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language
Author: Kimberly L. Geeslin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2021-04-22
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1317417194

This volume offers an introduction to the field of second language acquisition with a particular focus on second language Spanish. It connects key issues in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language to theoretical and empirical issues in the field of second language acquisition more generally by exemplifying central concepts in second language acquisition through the exploration of the most widely researched structures and most recent developments in the field of second language Spanish. It is written for a non-specialist audience, making it suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses and readers, while its treatment of recent empirical developments also makes it of interest to researchers in second language Spanish as well as allied fields.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 622
Release: 1999
Genre: Language and languages
ISBN:

LLBA contains abstracts of the world's literature in linguistics and language-related research, book abstracts, book review listings, and enhanced bibliographic citations of relevant dissertations." Related disciplines such as anthropology, education, ethnology, information science, medicine, and communications are covered. Also includes some reference to papers in published conference proceedings.