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Contrastive Pragmatics
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Contrastive PragmaticsThis volume deals with a variety of pragmatic issues involved in cross-language and interlanguage studies as well as second-language acquisition and cross-cultural studies. Part I contains papers dealing with general issues stemming from contrastive work, for example, the question of tertium comparationis and its place in the development of contrastive studies as well as the applicability of generalizations proposed by speech-act theorists in contrasting concrete languages and cultures. The second part tackles a number of pragmatic issues involved in second-language learners' written productions, classroom discourse
 
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Tags: studies, issues, contrastive, second-language, involved
Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gap
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Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gapExploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gap

The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes and second-language varieties are typically non-native forms of English that emerge in language contact situations, it is high time that they are described and compared on an empirical basis in

 

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Tags: research, second-language, Englishes, English, paradigm, Sridhar, varieties
In Other Words: The Science and Psychology of Second-Language Acquisition
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In Other Words: The Science and Psychology of Second-Language AcquisitionIn Other Words: The Science and Psychology of Second-Language Acquisition

More than five thousand languages are currently spoken around the globe. Learning to speak one of them is virtually effortless for most of us, so why is it commonly so difficult to learn a second language? Unraveling this mystery, two top researchers in the field explain how language acquisition can be an odyssey of self-discovery.
 
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Tags: language, acquisition, odyssey, explain, field, Other, Second-Language, Acquisition, Words
Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading
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Understanding Advanced Second-Language ReadingWhat distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive discussions of upper-register second-language texts (both expository and narrative) that adult second-language readers encounter daily across the globe, it also presents an assessment schema for second-language text comprehension as well as for the assessment of teaching.
 
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Tags: second-language, adult, assessment, globe, presents