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The Good Language Learner (Modern Languages in Practice, Vol 4)
What makes good language learners tick? What do they do that poor learners don't do? Could we help the poor learner by teaching them some of the good learners' tricks?
To forestall disappointment, let it be said at the beginning that this study does not provide definite answers to these very legitimate questions. Nevertheless, we believe it has been worth undertaking. The nature of second language learning is extremely complex and a great deal of research is needed to improve our understanding of it.
In spite of much theorizing, very little has been done to study its processes directly and empirically. This study constitutes a beginning.We set out to discover the strategies of good language learners; they proved hard to identify. But along the way we discovered other things which may help us to understand second language learning processes better. We therefore hope our study will be useful as a basis of further investigation.
We also hope our observations will be useful not only to researchers, but also to teachers and to those who make language teaching policy. A study of this kind is not undertaken with language teaching policy and practice specifically in mind; it focuses on the leaner, not the teacher; but we realize that its final justification is its influence on the quality of second language teaching and learning. We urge the reader not to expect immediately applicable results. Language pedagogy needs resolution of some of the more basic issues.
My Ladybird - Treasury of Stories and Rhymes
My Ladybird Treasury of Stories and Rhymes
Children will love this collection of over 150 favourite nursery rhymes and 19 original teddy bear stories and rhymes.
Motivating Language Learners by Gary N Chambers- (Modern Languages in Practice)
This book is informed by pupils' perceptions of the foreign language learning experience: attitudes brought from primary school; from home; visits abroad; the classroom.
What are the implications of these for teachers? The author provides practical strategies to enhance (a) the enjoyment of the in-class experience and (b) the status of modern languages on the curriculum.
Minimalist Syntax by Randall Hendrick (Generative Syntax)
Minimalist Syntax is a collection of essays that analyze major syntactic processes in a variety of languages, all unified by their perspective from within the Minimalist Program.Britain for Learners of English WorkBook by James ODriscoll Oxford
This book provides all the information a student od Britain and British culture needs to know.
What's it like living ib Britain today?
Find out about the country and its people in this new edition of Britain. All the information is completely up-to-date and illustrated with new colour photographs.
Key features
* Gives students a real insight into what it means to live in Britain today.
* Provides the historical and cultural background of British society and institutions, as well as the private daily life of the British people.
* Charts, graphs, extracts from popular fiction and newspapers etc. provide additional information.
* Questions at the end of each chapter encourage analysis of the text and cross-cultural comparison.
* Updated with new photographs and illustrations.
* NEW Workbook with activities to encourage students to think about cultural issues raised in the book, to make comparisons with their own culture, and to revise and reinforce the book's content and language.* NEW website, regularly updated with new information and statistics plus useful links to media and government websites.
Britain for Learners of English Students Book by James ODriscoll Oxford
This book provides all the information a student od Britain and British culture needs to know.
What's it like living ib Britain today?
Find out about the country and its people in this new edition of Britain. All the information is completely up-to-date and illustrated with new colour photographs.
Key features
* Gives students a real insight into what it means to live in Britain today.
* Provides the historical and cultural background of British society and institutions, as well as the private daily life of the British people.
* Charts, graphs, extracts from popular fiction and newspapers etc. provide additional information.
* Questions at the end of each chapter encourage analysis of the text and cross-cultural comparison.
* Updated with new photographs and illustrations.
* NEW Workbook with activities to encourage students to think about cultural issues raised in the book, to make comparisons with their own culture, and to revise and reinforce the book's content and language.* NEW website, regularly updated with new information and statistics plus useful links to media and government websites.
Britain - The country and its people by James ODriscoll Oxford
This book is for learners of English as a foreign language, at any level from intermediate upwards, who need to know more about Britain. It is invaluable to students on British Studies courses and to those who are studying British culture as a part of a general English course.
How can it be used?
- As a reference book.
- As a class reader and the starting-point for class discussions.
Key features
- Covers in 23 chapters all aspects of British life, giving students a real insight into what it means to live in Britain.
- Gives the essential facts about Britain and looks at the attitudes and beliefs which shape them.
- Describes both the public face of Britain - the Britain of the national and international news - and the private daily life of the British people.
- Provides lots of detailed extra information alongside the main text, often in the form of charts and graphs, extracts from popular fiction and newspapers and so on.
- Asks questions at the end of each chapter to encourage analysis of the text and to stimulate cross-cultural comparisons.
- Is attractively illustrated in full colour.
- Provides suggestions for further reading.
- Includes a detailed index to make it easy to locate specific items of information.
LearnEnglish British Council - Sport is GREAT Britain
Find out what is GREAT about Britain in these exciting videos produced by the British Council.
LearnEnglish British Council - Shopping is Great Britain
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LearnEnglish British Council - Music is Great Britain
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LearnEnglish British Council - Literature is Great Britain
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LearnEnglish British Council - Knowledge is Great Britain
LearnEnglish British Council - Innovation is Great Britain
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LearnEnglish British Council - Heritage is Great Britain
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LearnEnglish British Council - Green is Great Britain
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LearnEnglish British Council - Entrepreneurs are Great Britain
LearnEnglish British Council - English is Great Britain
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LearnEnglish British Council - Creativity is Great Britain
Find out what is GREAT about Britain in these exciting videos produced by the British Council.
LearnEnglish British Council - Countryside is Great Britain
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Wh-Movement Moving On (Current Studies in Linguistics)
Wh-movement—the phenomenon by which interrogative words appear at the beginning of interrogative sentences—is one of the central displacement operations of human language.
Noam Chomsky's 1977 paper "On Wh-Movement," a landmark in the study of wh-movement (and movement in general), showed that this computational operation is the basis of a variety of syntactic constructions that had previously been described in terms of construction-specific rules.
Taking Chomsky's article as a starting point, the contributors to this collection reconsider a number of the issues raised in "On Wh-Movement" from the perspective of contemporary Minimalist syntactic theory (which explores the thesis that human language is a system optimally designed to meet certain interface conditions imposed by other cognitive systems with which the language faculty interacts).
They discuss such wh-movement issues as wh-phrases and pied-piping, the formation of A-bar chains and the copy theory of movement, cyclicity and locality of wh-movement, and the typology of wh-constructions. By reconsidering core characteristics of the wh-movement operation first systematically discussed by Chomsky from the Minimalist perspective, this volume contributes to the further development of the theory of wh-movement and to the general theory of movement.
The Syntax of Time (Current Studies in Linguistics)
Any analysis of the syntax of time is based on a paradox: it must include a syntax-based theory of both tense construal and event construal. Yet while time is undimensional, events have a complex spatiotemporal structure that reflects their human participants.
How can an event be flattened to fit into the linear time axis? Chomsky's The Minimalist Program, published in 1995, offers a way to address this problem. The studies collected in The Syntax of Time investigate whether problems concerning the construal of tense and aspect can be reduced to syntactic problems for which the basic mechanism and principles of generative grammar already provide solutions.
These studies, recent work by leading international scholars in the field, offer varied perspectives on the syntax of tense and the temporal construal of events: models of tense interpretation, construal of verbal forms, temporal aspect versus lexical aspect, the relation between the event and its argument structure, and the interaction of case with aktionsart or tense construal. Advances in the theory of temporal interpretation in the sentence are also applied to the temporal interpretation of nominals.
The Minimalist Program (Current Studies Linguistics)
The Minimalist Program consists of four recent essays that attempt to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences. In these essays the minimalist approach to linguistic theory is formulated and progressively developed.
Building on the theory of principles and parameters and, in particular, on principles of economy of derivation and representation, the minimalist framework takes Universal Grammar as providing a unique computational system, with derivations driven by morphological properties, to which the syntactic variation of languages is also restricted. Within this theoretical framework, linguistic expressions are generated by optimally efficient derivations that must satisfy the conditions that hold on interface levels, the only levels of linguistic representation.
The interface levels provide instructions to two types of performance systems, articulatory-perceptual and conceptual- intentional. All syntactic conditions, then, express properties of these interface levels, reflecting the interpretive requirements of language and keeping to very restricted conceptual resources. The Essays Principles and Parameters Theory. Some Notes on Economy of Derivation and Representation. A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory. Categories and Transformations in a Minimalist Framework.
Syntactic Structures Revisited (Current Studies in Linguistics)
This book provides an introduction to some classic ideas and analyses of transformational generative grammar, viewed both on their own terms and from a more modern, or minimalist perspective. The major focus is on the set of analyses treating English verbal morphology.
The book shows how the analyses in Chomsky's classic Syntactic Structures actually work, filling in underlying assumptions and often unstated formal particulars. From there the book moves to successive theoretical developments and revisions—both in general and in particular as they pertain to inflectional verbal morphology.
After comparing Chomsky's economy-based account with his later minimalist approach, the book concludes with a hybrid theory of English verbal morphology that includes elements of both Syntactic Structures and A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory.
Current Studies in Linguistics No. 33
Semantic Structures (Current Studies in Linguistics)
Semantic Structures is a large-scale study of conceptual structure and its lexical and syntactic expression in English that builds on the system of Conceptual Semantics described in Ray Jackendoff's earlier books Semantics and Cognition and Consciousness and the Computational Mind.
Jackendoff summarizes the relevant arguments in his two previous books, setting out the basic parameters for the formalization of meaning, and comparing his mentalistic approach with Fodor's Language of Thought hypothesis.
He then takes up the Problem of Meaning, extending the range of semantic fields encompassed by the Conceptual Semantics formalism, and the Problem of Correspondence, formalizing the relation between semantic and syntactic structure.
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