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Exploring Literacies Theory, Research and Practice
This book is a guide to current research and debate in the field of literacies practice and education. It provides both an historical and lifespan view of the field as well as an overview of research methodologies with first-hand examples from a range of researchers involved in literacy research.
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- 978-1-137-31903-6
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- XXI, 420
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Exploring Innovative Pedagogy in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Fo…
Teachers of Chinese as a foreign language in many international contexts are searching for pedagogic solutions to promote effective learning. Models of innovative and successful approaches are urgently needed. This volume presents a collection of compelling and empirically rich research studies that showcases innovative developments in the practice of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. The…
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- 978-981-287-772-7
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- 23 b/w illustrations
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Teaching And Researching The Pronunciation Of English
The book contains contributions from practitioners and theoreticians who explore the pronunciation of English from various perspectives: phonetic, phonological, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic. In accordance with the unifying theme of the volume, individual contributions investigate the characteristics of a foreign accent, its production and perception, study the development of methods and…
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- 978-3-319-11092-9
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- XV, 247
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- Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World
This book investigates inherent, structural differences in the Chinese and English writing systems which predispose learners from childhood to develop specific literacy-learning strategies, which can impair later efforts at learning foreign language literacy if the foreign language script varies significantly from the native language script. It compares educational practices and philosophies in…
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- 978-981-10-0643-2
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- XIV, 185
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- Springer Texts in Education
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Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore
This collection of articles begins with an overview of the Reviews from past decades, then goes on to describe the current practices, and foretells the possible future developments. This is followed by a discussion of the use of ICT and surveys on several professional aspects of teaching, including teachers’ training needs and perception of student difficulties, assessment literacy, familiari…
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- 978-981-10-0123-9
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- XIII, 193
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- 370 SOH t
Multilingualism in the Australian Suburbs:A framework for exploring bilingual…
This book introduces a framework for examining bilingual identity and presents the cases of seven individual children from a study of young students’ bilingual identities in an Australian primary school. The new Bilingual Identity Negotiation Framework brings together three elements that influence bilingual identity development – sociocultural connection, investment and interaction. The cas…
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- 1
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- 978-981-10-1212-9
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- XV
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Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges
This book examines language policies and practices in schools in regions of China populated by indigenous minority groups. It focuses on models of trilingual education, i.e. education in the home language, Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese, the national language), and English (the main foreign language). Special attention is given to the study of the vitality of the minority home language in each reg…
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- 978-94-017-9352-0
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- XVII, 258
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- Multilingual Education
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Transition and Transgression
This book conveys the story of a society in the throes of restructuring itself and struggling to find a new identity. A particularly attractive aspect of this study is the focus on young adult literature and its place in post-apartheid South Africa, as well as its potential use in the classroom and lecture hall. Intersecting these two topics provides a compelling lens for refocusing debate on …
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- 978-3-319-25534-7
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- VI, 120
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- SpringerBriefs in Education
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Issues in Teaching, Learning and Testing Speaking in a Second Language
The volume constitutes a state-of-the-art account of issues related to teaching, learning and testing speaking in a second language. It brings together contributions by Polish and international scholars which seek to create links between theory, research and classroom practice, report the findings of studies investigating the impact of linguistic, cognitive and affective factors on the developm…
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- 978-3-642-38339-7
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Investigating Chinese HE EFL Classrooms: Using Collaborative Learning to Enha…
This book presents a study on corpus-driven distribution as the main method of prediction, concentrating on individual semantic features to predict the senses of non-defined words by using corpora and tools, such as the Chinese Gigaword Corpus, HowNet, Chinese Wordnet, and XianDai HanYu CiDian (Xian Han). With the help of these corpora, the study determines the collocation clusters of four targ…
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- 978-3-662-44503-7
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