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New Media and Perennial Problems in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
The book concerns the ways in which the new media shape communication along with educational expectations and practices in foreign language classrooms. Although foreign language learners have cheap and easy access to information and ways of communication, they also wrestle with problems that have always accompanied language learning. The focus of the book is two-fold. On the one hand, the autho…
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- 978-3-319-07685-0
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- XVI, 228
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- Second Language Learning and Teaching
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New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts
This monograph presents in great detail a large number of both unpublished and previously published Babylonian mathematical texts in the cuneiform script. It is a continuation of the work A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts (Springer 2007) written by Jöran Friberg, the leading expert on Babylonian mathematics. Focussing on the big picture, Friberg explores in this book …
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- 978-3-319-44596-0
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- XVII, 553
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New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence:JSAI-isAI 2014 Workshops, LENLS, JUR…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the JSAI-isAI 2014 Workshops LENLS, JURISIN, and GABA which took place on November 2014, in Japan. The 26 contributions in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissionsfrom the 3 workshops (LENLS11, JURISIN2014, and GABA2014). LENLS (Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics) is an an…
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- 978-3-662-48118-9
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- XIII, 357
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Developments in language theory : 19th International Conference, DLT 2015, Li…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2015, held in Liverpool, UK. The 31 papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. Its scope is very general and includes, among others, the following topics and areas: combinatorial and algebraic properties of words and lan…
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- 9783319215006
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- xxii, 440 pages
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- 511.3
Computational Forensics 5th International Workshop, IWCF 2012, Tsukuba, Japa…
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th and 6th International Workshops on Computational Forensics, IWCF 2012 and IWCF 2014, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in November 2010 and August 2014. The 16 revised full papers and 1 short paper were carefully selected from 34 submissions during a thorough review process. The papers are divided into three broad areas namely biom…
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- 978-3-319-20125-2
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Hybrid Language Teaching in Practice: Perceptions, Reactions, and Results
This book allows readers to explore the inner workings of a hybrid class from the perspectives of two instructors with different pedagogical orientations, from the students’ perspectives, including learning outcomes and immediately practical teaching tools. The authors meet the challenge of how to preserve pedagogy and content while making good use of digital tools and online opportunities. L…
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- 978-3-319-16425-0
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- XI, 82
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- 370 HYB
Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015 Current Approaches to Dis…
The present volume, Current Approaches to Discourse and Translation Studies, presents innovative theoretical models and applications of the two disciplines in intercultural contexts. The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics offers a platform to scholars who carry out rigorous and interdisciplinary research on language in real use. Corpus linguistics and Pragmatics have traditionally…
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- 978-3-319-17948-3
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Working with Text and Around Text in Foreign Language Environments
This book investigates the three pivotal points of text for foreign language acquisition: reception, construction and deconstruction. In Part One, the focus is on various aspects of text reception, such as developing literacy, text interest, and perceptions of the academic register or the assessment of spoken language in educational contexts. Part Two deals with various aspects of composing tex…
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- 978-3-319-33272-7
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New Directions in Language Learning Psychology
This book explores potential new directions in the growing field of language learning psychology. The individual chapters cover theoretical and conceptual developments and innovative methodological designs, while also exploring practical implications. Language learning psychology is a vibrant field of research that typically involves constructs from social and educational psychology, which it c…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-23490-8
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- X, 259
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- Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Alice Munro: Understanding, Adapting and Teaching
The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction. Its innovative quality consists in juxtaposing a variety of literary analyses of selected stories with two other ways of looking at her fiction: the perspectives of film adaptation and of pedagogy. The book is divided into three parts which mirror the key words in the title: understanding, adapting and teaching. Part One cons…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-24061-9
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- XII, 161
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- Second Language Learning and Teaching
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- 400 ALI a
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