This is the first student/teacher book based on James J. Asher s stimulating and effective Total Physical Response (TPR) approach to language acquisition. The book contains 67 illustrated series of commands for use with students of all ages in beginning, intermediate and multilevel classes.
The papers in this volume focus on the impact of information structure on language acquisition, thereby taking different linguistic approaches into account. They start from an empirical point of view, and examine data from natural first and second language acquisition, which cover a wide range of varieties, from early learner language to native speaker production and from gesture to Creole prototypes. The central theme is the interplay between principles of information structure and linguistic structure on the functioning and development of the learner's system.
Person to Person focuses on the language functions required for everyday activities such as shopping, ordering in a restaurant, and arranging to meet a friend. Task-based listening sections consolidate language acquisition. A completely revised Test Booklet with CD contains photocopiable unit tests.
Crosslinguistic Influence in Language and Cognition
A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or language transfer, this book is an authoritative account of transfer in second-language learning and its consequences for language and thought. It covers transfer in both production and comprehension, and discusses the distinction between semantic and conceptual transfer, lateral transfer, and reverse transfer. The book is ideal as a text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in bilingualism, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology, and will also be of interest to researchers in these areas.
Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition
Leading scholars review their speciality in language acquisition
Each chapter provides the reader with a strong introduction of the field and contains an overview of the work in the field by a leading authority
Includes modern perspectives, reviews of crucial experiments, naturalistic data summaries, and methodological innovations that have led to new insights
