An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
One of the original aims of the book is to provide an account of the field which was up to date, but which at the same time gave a historical persective, showing where current ideas and developments have come from. This perspective is important if we are to understand where we are , and eve where we may be going.
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This study investigates the way in which the speaker's attitude to what is said is implicitly coded in grammar. Using a wealth of material from earlier stages of English as well as present-day English, the author sheds new light on a set of six grammatical constructions, a subset of which belongs to the most important and most widely investigated grammatical phenomena. culture-specific and universal factors.
First published in 1963, James A. Michener’s gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the years after World War II, with a dangerous assignment: finding and returning a young American woman living in Afghanistan to her distraught family after she suddenly and mysteriously disappears.
This volume consists of a collection of papers that focus on structural/grammatical aspects of the process of first language attrition. It presents an overview of current research, methodological issues and important questions regarding first language attrition.