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  • Teaching Languages with Technology

    Communicative Approaches to Interactive Whiteboard Use

    Series series Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching
    This book draws on theories of second language acquisition (SLA) to illustrate how interactive white board technology can be exploited to support language acquisition. It examines interaction, collaboration and negotiation of meaning and focus on form in the communicative language classroom in primary, secondary and vocational schools.In recent years new technologies have been incorporated into ... Leer más

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  • The Language Myth

    Why Language Is Not an Instinct

    de Vyvyan Evans ...
    Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human 'instinct' pre-programmed in us from birth. In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdom is, in fact, a myth. Debunking the notion of a language 'instinct', Evans demonstrates that language is related to other ... Leer más

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  • Interpreting Figurative Meaning

    Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated with interpreting figurative language. There is now a huge, often contradictory literature on how people understand figures of speech. Gibbs and Colston argue that there may not be a single theory or model that adequately ... Leer más

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  • Attitudes to Language

    de Peter Garrett ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
    Just about everyone seems to have views about language. Language attitudes and language ideologies permeate our daily lives. Our competence, intelligence, friendliness, trustworthiness, social status, group memberships, and so on, are often judged from the way we communicate. Even the speed at which we speak can evoke reactions. And we often try to anticipate such judgements as we communicate. In ... Leer más

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  • Critical English for Academic Purposes

    Theory, Politics, and Practice

    de Sarah Benesch ...
    Critical English for Academic Purposes: Theory, Politics, and Practice is the first book to combine the theory and practice of two fields: English for academic purposes and critical pedagogy. English for academic purposes (EAP) grounds English language teaching in the cognitive and linguistic demands of academic situations, tailoring instruction to specific rather than general purposes. Critical ... Leer más

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  • Neurobiology of Language

    Edición de Gregory Hickok, Steven L. Small ...
    Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward integration of neurobiological approaches with the more established understanding of language within cognitive psychology, computer science, and linguistics. This volume serves as the definitive reference on the ... Leer más

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  • Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

    Papua New Guinea Studies

    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980 and 2001 with the Oksapmin, a remote Papua New Guinea group, Geoffrey B. Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical representations and ideas in the social history of the community. In traditional life, the Oksapmin used a counting system that makes use of twenty-seven parts of the body; there is no evidence that the group used arithmetic ... Leer más

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  • Foundations of Language

    Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

    How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes ... Leer más

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  • How Language Began

    Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution

    de David McNeill ...
    Series series Approaches to the Evolution of Language
    Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and ... Leer más

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  • Reading in a Second Language

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    Reading in a Second Language offers a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon and process of reading in a second language, with graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and applied psychology as its primary audience. The book explores reading processes from a number of complementary standpoints, integrating perspectives from fields such as ... Leer más

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  • Linguanomics

    What is the Market Potential of Multilingualism?

    Globalization, the Internet and an era of mass travel have combined to produce a world with a language mix on a huge scale. Linguanomics explains this multilingualism in a material, economic and cultural sense.What is the effect of this multilingualism on society, organizations and individuals? What are the economic benefits and drawbacks? Should we invest in language skills? Should there be ... Leer más

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  • Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century

    The Literary Agenda

    de Maryanne Wolf ...
    Series series The Literary Agenda
    The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is ... Leer más

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