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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “leo van lier”
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  • Interaction in the Language Curriculum

    Awareness, Autonomy and Authenticity

    by Leo Van Lier ...
    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    Interaction in the Language Curriculum offers an innovative theory of language education integrating curriculum practice, research and teaching. It emphasises the interdependence of knowledge and values and stresses the central importance of learning as a social process.Leo van Lier argues that moral as well as intellectual and practical principles must underlie curriculum development and everyday ... Read more

    $107.17 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

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  • Big Questions in ELT

    by Scott Thornbury ...
    For two years now I've been regularly blogging about ELT-related issues that have caught my attention. The topics have been loosely organized around the format of an encyclopaedic dictionary I'd published previously, called An A-Z of ELT. I've since clocked up over a hundred posts that in turn have attracted thousands of comments comprising I don't know how many tens of thousands of words.A couple ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism

    by Colin Baker ...
    Series Book 18 - Parents' and Teachers' Guides
    A practical, inspiring read which equips parents and teachers with the confidence and knowledge they need to make raising and teaching bilingual children a success.In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. The Q&A format of this book makes it the natural choice for ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Understanding Second Language Acquisition

    by Lourdes Ortega ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Experiential Learning

    Experience as the Source of Learning and Development

    by David Kolb ...
    Experiential learning is a powerful and proven approach to teaching and learning that is based on one incontrovertible reality: people learn best through experience. Now, in this extensively updated book, David A. Kolb offers a systematic and up-to-date statement of the theory of experiential learning and its modern applications to education, work, and adult development.Experiential Learning, ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Language Teacher Education for a Global Society

    A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing

    by B. Kumaravadivelu ...
    Series series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    The field of second/foreign language teacher education is calling out for a coherent and comprehensive framework for teacher preparation in these times of accelerating economic, cultural, and educational globalization. Responding to this call, this book introduces a state-of-the-art model for developing prospective and practicing teachers into strategic thinkers, exploratory researchers, and ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • The Learning Self

    Understanding the Potential for Transformation

    by Mark Tennant ...
    The Learning SelfThis new book from the award-winning author of Psychology and Adult Learning puts the spotlight on the kind of learning that brings about significant personal change. Tennant explores the techniques, processes, and practices educators can use to promote learning that leads to change and examines assumptions about self and identity, how we are formed, and our capacity for change ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Reason & Rigor

    How Conceptual Frameworks Guide Research

    by Sharon M. Ravitch, J. Matthew Riggan ...
    Designed for novice as well as more experienced researchers, Reason & Rigor presents conceptual frameworks as a mechanism for aligning literature review, research design, and methodology. The book explores the conceptual framework—defined as both a process and a product—that helps to direct and ground researchers as they work through common research challenges. Focusing on published studies on a ... Read more

    $87.19 CAD

  • Understanding Language Teaching

    From Method to Postmethod

    by B. Kumaravadivelu ...
    Series series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    This book traces the historical development of major language teaching methods in terms of theoretical principles and classroom procedures, and provides a critical evaluation of each. Drawing from seminal, foundational texts and from critical commentaries made by various scholars, Kumaravadivelu examines the profession's current transition from method to postmethod and, in the process, elucidates ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Identity, Formation, Agency, and Culture

    A Social Psychological Synthesis

    by James E. Cote, Charles G. Levine ...
    The goal of Identity, Formation, Agency, and Culture is to lay the basis of a theory with which to better understand the difficulties and complexities of identity formation. It provides an extensive understanding of identity formation as it relates to human striving (agency) and social organization (culture). James E. Côté and Charles G. Levine have compiled state-of-the-art psychological and ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Theories of Learning

    Learning Theorists … In Their Own Words

    Edited by Knud Illeris ...
    This tenth anniversary edition of Knud Illeris’s classic 2008 text is an updated and definitive collection of today’s most influential learning theorists, now containing additional chapters from John Hattie and Gregory Donoghue, Sharan Merriam, Gert Biesta and Carolyn Jackson. This book brings together world-renowned experts, who each present their understanding of what learning is and how human ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD