"Testing in Language Programs" is a comprehensive text for teachers and students in teacher-training courses in language testing and assessment. Ideal for both classroom use and personal reference, this book targets the needs of those making both programme-level (e.g. admissions, proficiency and placement) as well as classroom-level testing decisions (e.g. assessing what students have learned through diagnostic and achievement testing).
Designed specially for postgraduate TESOL and Applied Linguistics students, this Reader provides both theoretical perspectives and practical tools for analysing and understanding how ELT classroom curricula can be analysed,developed and evaluated.
Language Acquisition: Studies In First Language Development
The aim of the first edition of Language Acquisition was to provide as comprehensive a description and explanation as possible of the changes in the child's language as he or she grows older. In this second edition Paul Fletcher and Michael Garman have the same fundamental aim. Six years later the field has not changed dramatically, but there have been fruitful theoretical developments - the learnability hypothesis has been expounded - and empirical work seeking evidence of specific language capacities in children has made notable advances.
A timely, clear, and valuable book, which offers a masterful overview of the many passionately held positions on the origins and development of language.
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind. According to Paul Bloom, children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes.
