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How languages are learned
Record details
- ISBN: 0194541266 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780194541268 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
[xiii], 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: Fourth edition.
- Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Previous ed.: 2006. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-247) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Language learning in early childhood -- Preview -- First language acquisition -- first three years: Milestones and developmental sequences -- pre-school years -- school years -- Explaining first language acquisition -- behaviourist perspective -- innatist perspective -- Interactionist/developmental perspectives -- Language disorders and delays -- Childhood bilingualism -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading -- 2. Second language learning -- Preview -- Learner characteristics -- Learning conditions -- Studying the language of second language learners -- Contrastive analysis, error analysis, and interlanguage -- Developmental sequences -- More about first language influence -- Vocabulary -- Pragmatics -- Phonology -- Sampling learners' language -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading -- 3. Individual differences in second language learning -- Preview -- Research on learner characteristics -- Intelligence -- Language learning aptitude -- Learning styles -- Personality -- Attitudes and motivation -- Motivation in the classroom -- Identity and ethnic group affiliation -- Learner beliefs -- Individual differences and classroom instruction -- Age and second language learning -- critical period: More than just pronunciation? -- Intuitions of grammaticality -- Rate of learning -- Age and second language instruction -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading -- 4. Explaining second language learning -- Preview -- behaviourist perspective -- Second language applications: Mimicry and memorization -- innatist perspective -- Second language applications: Krashen's `Monitor Model' -- cognitive perspective -- Information processing -- Usage-based learning -- competition model -- Language and the brain -- Second language applications: Interacting, noticing, processing, and practising -- sociocultural perspective -- Second language applications: Learning by talking -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading -- 5. Observing learning and teaching in the second language classroom -- Preview -- Natural and instructional settings -- In natural acquisition settings -- In structure-based instructional settings -- In communicative instructional settings -- Observation schemes -- Classroom comparisons: Teacher-student interactions -- Classroom comparisons: Student-student interactions -- Corrective feedback in the classroom -- Questions in the classroom -- Ethnography -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading -- 6. Second language learning in the classroom -- Preview -- Proposals for teaching -- 1. Get it right from the beginning -- 2. Just listen ... and read -- 3. Let's talk -- 4. Get two for one -- 5. Teach what is teachable -- 6. Get it right in the end -- Assessing the proposals -- Summary -- Suggestions for further reading -- 7. Popular ideas about language learning revisited -- Preview -- Reflecting on the popular ideas: Learning from research -- Conclusion. |
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| Subject: | Language acquisition Children -- Language Language and languages -- Study and teaching Second language acquisition Language transfer (Language learning) Interlanguage (Language learning) |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Castlegar Campus Library | P 118 L458 2013 (Text) | B001299254 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |
