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Teaching languages to adolescent learners : from theory to practice
Teaching languages to adolescents can be a challenge. . . but one that is most rewarding! What works? What doesn't work? This book provides a reader friendly overview on teaching modern languages to adolescents (Years 7–13). Each chapter takes an aspect of language teaching and learning, and explains the underlying theory of instructed language acquisition and its application through examples…
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- 9781108869812
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- ix, 188 p. : ill
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- 418.00712 ERL t
Early greek alphabetic writing : a linguistic approach
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. …
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- 9781789257441
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- ix, 139 p.
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- 481.1 AST e
Diversity and rabbinization: jewish texts and societies between 400 and 1000 CE
This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geograph…
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- 9781783749959
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- xxiii, 474 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 296.1 DIV d
Script effects as the hidden drive of the mind, cognition, and culture
This open access volume reveals the hidden power of the script we read in and how it shapes and drives our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures. Expanding on the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (i.e., the idea that language affects the way we think), this volume proposes the “Script Relativity Hypothesis” (i.e., the idea that the script in which we read affects the way we think) by offeri…
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- Literacy Studies, 21
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- 9783030551520
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- 251 p.: ill.
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- 411.019 PAE s
Plurilingual classroom practices and participation : analysing interaction in…
Plurilingual Classroom Practices and Participation contributes to a better understanding of plurilingual education in Catalonia by providing a description of the interactional resources mobilised by learners as social actors. This volume is a collection of studies that show interactions containing plurilingual and multimodal sequences that illustrate moments of potential acquisition of aspects …
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- 9781003169123
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- XXVI, 216 p.
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- 370.117509467 PLU p
A fleet street in every town: the provincial press in England, 1855-1900
At the heart of Victorian culture was the local weekly newspaper. More popular than books, more widely read than the London papers, the local press was a national phenomenon. This book redraws the Victorian cultural map, shifting our focus away from one centre, London, and towards the many centres of the provinces. It offers a new paradigm in which place, and a sense of place, are vital to the …
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- 9781783745616
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- 455 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 941.081 HOB a
Studies in the grammar and lexicon of neo-Aramaic
The volume makes a major contribution to the field of Neo-Aramaic and significantly advances research. The articles present new analyses and new primary data from several endangered dialects, many of which have so far not been systematically documented, and in some cases have not been documented at all. It is good to see that the examples have been given glossing, so that this important materia…
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- 9781783749492
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- xxvi, 511 p.
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- 492.2 KHA s
Pedoman inventarisasi biota karst dan gua
Studi geologi kawasan karst telah banyak dilakukan di Indonesia, namun studi keanekaragaman hayati yang hidup di dalamnya masih belum banyak dilakukan. Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia melalui Pusat Penelitian Biologi sejak tahun 2001 merupakan pelopor dalam pengungkapan keanekaragaman hayati karst, dan Buku Pedoman Inventarisasi Biota Karst & Gua ini disusun untuk melanjutkan tradisi Pusat P…
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- 9786024962739
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- xxiv, 338 p.: ill.; 21 cm
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- 577.584 PED p
Foundational principles of task-based language teaching
The Open Access version of this book will be available soon. This book introduces readers to the concept of task-based language teaching (TBLT), a learner-centred and experiential approach to language teaching and learning. Based on the premise that language learners can enhance their second language acquisition (SLA) through engagement in communicative tasks that compel them to use language fo…
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- 9781003039709
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- XVI, 198 p.
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- ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
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- 418.0071 EAS f
Multilingualism and third language acquisition: learning and teaching trends …
The purpose of this book is to present recent studies in the field of multilingualism and L3, bringing together contributions from an international group of specialists from Austria, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and United A All these chapters include several different languages in contact in an acquisition/learning context: Basque, English, French, German, Italian, La…
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- 9783961102696
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- viii, 214p.: ill.
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- 400 MUL m
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