All modes of perception (vision, hearing, etc.) are organized into foreground or focus and background constituents. Natural language sentences are no different. This book explores the role of focusing in natural language sentences and the role of this basic cognitive mechanism in explaining sentence stress, meaning and structure. The result is an innovative view of our linguistic competence.
This book develops teachers' awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system.
About Language will be useful to trainee teachers and experienced teachers, native and non-native speakers. There is a full key and commentary, so that the book can be used for self-study.
Brain Challenge is a simple, entertaining solution for brain activity maintenance.
WordLearner Mobile 1.0 :
The software offers a range of exercises for learning your words and uses an Adaptive Learning System that records which words you find difficult and presents them more often.
English language training mobile game:
It offers several exercises a day designed to improve your language skills in practical, everyday situations (such as coping with an angry Londoner shouting at you for getting in their way on the pavement).
This work describes the development process and dynamics of change in the course of implementing a two-way bilingual immersion education program in two school communities. The focus is on the language and literacy learning of elementary-school students and on how it is influenced by parents, teachers and policymakers. Perez provides rich, highly detailed descriptions, both quantitative and qualitative, of the change process at the two schools involved, including student language and achievement data for five years of program implementation ...
This volume chronicles a project that involved the staff and principals in the midwestern United States, in collaboration with a team of educational researchers. Included as chapters are qualitative studies of immersion teachers, analyses of the use of drama and children's literature, and discussions of staff preparation and maintenance for immersion schooling. Bernhardt has also published "Reading Development in a Second Language", based on her research with adult readers of a variety of second languages.
