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Author(s): Sandra Fotos, Charles M. Browne Year: 2004 ISBN: 080584404X,9780805844047,9781410610775 Description: This practical handbook is designed to help language teachers, teacher trainers, and students learn more about their options for using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and develop an understanding of the theory and research supporting these options. The...

Author(s): Celeste Kinginger Year: 2009 ISBN: 0230549241,9780230549241 Description: Study abroad is often seen as a crucial dimension of language learning — developing communicative proficiency, language awareness, and intercultural competence. The author provides an overview and assessment of research on language learning in study abroad settings, reviewing the advantages...

Author(s): Soren Stenlund Publisher: Routledge, Year: 1990 ISBN: 0203406990,9780203406991,0203715233,9780203715239,0415042216,9780415042215 Description: Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language. It deals in particular with problems which are connected with our tendency to be misled by certain prevailing views and preconceptions about...

Author(s): Robert B. Kaplan, Richard B. Baldauf Year: 1997 ISBN: 1853593729,9781853593727,9780585118840 Description: Reviewing the field of language policy and planning, this text sets out current practice and ways of thinking about language policy and planning, looking at methodology and the key areas of education, literacy and economics. Case...

Author(s): Tim McNamara, Carsten Roever Year: 2006 ISBN: 1405155434,9781405155434 Description: Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Award for Best Book on Language Testing 2009This volume focuses on the social aspects of language testing, including assessment of socially situated language use and societal consequences of language tests. The authors argue that...

Author(s): Anna R. Kinsella Series: Approaches to the Evolution of Language Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2009 ISBN: 0521895308,9780521895309,0511596510,9780511596513 Description: Evolution has not typically been recognised by linguists as a constraining factor when developing linguistic theories. This book demonstrates that our theories of language must reflect the fact...

Author(s): Yosef Grodzinsky, Lewis P. Shapiro, David Swinney (Editors) Series: Foundations of Neuropsychology Publisher: Academic Press, Year: 2000 ISBN: 0123042607,9780123042606,9780080535371 Description: The study of language has increasingly become an area of interdisciplinary interest. Not only is it studied by speech specialists and linguists, but by psychologists and neuroscientists...