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“ariel loring”

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  • Language, Immigration and Naturalization

    Legal and Linguistic Issues

    Edited by Ariel Loring, Prof. Vaidehi Ramanathan ...
    This volume focuses on the everyday legalities and practicalities of naturalization including governmental processes, the language of citizenship tests and classes, the labelling and lived experiences of immigrants/outsiders and the media’s interpretation of this process. The book brings together scholars from a wide range of specialities who accentuate language and raise issues that often remain ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    An Introduction to Linguistics

    by Kate Burridge, Tonya N. Stebbins ...
    For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics is an engaging introduction to human language and the role of linguistics in understanding its fundamental design, acquisition and functions. Replete with case studies and examples from Australia, New Zealand and around the world, this text offers a thorough introduction to core topics, including the structure and meaning of words, the ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

    by Silvina Montrul ...
    Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage language does not fully develop. In the last decade, the acquisition of heritage languages has become a central focus of study within linguistics and applied linguistics. This work centres on the grammatical ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning

    A Sociocultural Perspective

    by Leo van Lier ...
    Series Book 3 - Educational Linguistics
    In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Glocal English

    The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World

    by Farooq A. Kperogi ...
    Series Book 96 - Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
    Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world’s two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world’s fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the unrelenting ubiquity of the Nigerian (English-language) movie industry in Africa and the Black Atlantic Diaspora. Using contemporary ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Sociocultural Theory and L2 Instructional Pragmatics

    by Rémi A. van Compernolle ...
    Series Book 74 - Second Language Acquisition
    Winner of the AAAL First Book Award 2017!This book outlines a framework for teaching second language pragmatics grounded in Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. The framework focuses on the appropriation of sociopragmatic concepts as psychological tools that mediate pragmalinguistic choices. Using multiple sources of metalinguistic and performance data collected during a six-week pedagogical ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • How to start, carry on and end conversations

    Scripts for social situations for people on the autism spectrum

    by Paul Jordan ...
    Do you find it hard to make friends? Do you struggle to know what to say to start a conversation?In this book, Paul Jordan, who is on the autism spectrum, explains how to make sense of everyday social situations you might encounter at school, university or in other group settings. He reveals how, with the use of just 65 simple words, it is possible to create 'scripts for thinking' that break ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Plurilingual Code-Switching between Standard and Local Varieties

    A Socio-Psycholinguistic Approach

    by Dino Selvaggi ...
    Series Book 229 - Linguistic Insights
    This book presents a comparative study on plurilingual code-switching (CS) in Italy, Croatia and Scotland-UK, based on Italian in contact with four standard varieties (Spanish, English, Philipino and Croatian) and five non-standard varieties (Arbereshe, Occitan, Calabrese, Istrovenetian and Chakavski).It intends to fill a gap in the literature by proposing an interdisciplinary perspective, as most ... Read more

    $83.19 CAD

  • The Social Construction of Age

    by ANDREW, Patricia ...
    This book broaches the question of the social impact of age on language learners from a social constructionist perspective, thus filling a gap currently existing in the literature on age and second language acquisition. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Designing Research on Bilingual Development

    Behavioral and Neurolinguistic Experiments

    by Monika S. Schmid, Sanne M. Berends, Christopher Bergmann, Susanne M. Brouwer, Nienke Meulman, Bregtje J. Seton, Simone A. Sprenger, Laurie A. Stowe ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers an in-depth description and discussion of research design for a large-scale investigation of bilingual development. It introduces and justifies a range of theoretical and methodological innovations, discusses some of the problems that come with these and proposes practical solutions. The present volume introduces a research design intended to capture a wide range of linguistic ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Online Informal Learning of English

    by G. Sockett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Young people around the world are increasingly able to access English language media online for leisure purposes and interact with other users of English. This book examines the extent of these phenomena, their effect on language acquisition and their implications for the teaching of English in the 21st century. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Sociolinguistic Variation and Acquisition in Two-Way Language Immersion

    Negotiating the Standard

    by Rebecca Lurie Starr ...
    Series Book 102 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    This book investigates the acquisition of sociolinguistic knowledge in the early elementary school years of a Mandarin-English two-way immersion program in the United States. Using ethnographic observation and quantitative analysis of data, the author explores how input from teachers and classmates shapes students’ language acquisition. The book considers the different sociolinguistic messages ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD