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Language Testing and Evaluation eBook Series

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  • Developing C-tests for estimating proficiency in foreign language research

    Edited by John Norris ...
    Series Book 39 - Language Testing and Evaluation
    This book explores the development of C-tests for providing efficient measures of foreign language proficiency in eight different languages: Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Researchers report on how C-test principles were applied in creating the new language tests, with careful attention to language-specific challenges and solutions. The final, five-text ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Measuring L2 Proficiency

    Perspectives from SLA

    Edited by Pascale Leclercq, Amanda Edmonds, Heather Hilton ...
    Series Book 78 - Second Language Acquisition
    The creation of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has given rise to interest and debate among policy makers, testers, teachers and researchers alike in the reliability and feasibility of the assessment of second language (L2) proficiency. This volume brings together concrete ideas on identifying and measuring L2 proficiency from different branches of SLA research ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Collaborative Writing in L2 Classrooms

    by Dr. Neomy Storch ...
    Series Book 31 - New Perspectives on Language and Education
    In this first book-length treatment of collaborative writing in second language (L2) classrooms, Neomy Storch provides a theoretical, pedagogical and empirical rationale for the use of collaborative writing activities in L2 classes, as well as some guidelines about how to best implement such activities in both face-to-face and online mode. The book discusses factors that may impact on the nature ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Insights into Non-native Vocabulary Teaching and Learning

    by Chacon-Beltran, Ruben, Abello-Contesse, Christian and Torreblanca-Lopez, Maria del Mar (eds) ...
    This book brings together a collection of new articles on different aspects of vocabulary teaching and learning. The contributions present the results of original empirical research in the field by well-known scholars as well as some comprehensive reviews. The different approaches adopted by the researchers participating in this volume should be of interest to graduate students and researchers ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism

    by Lourdes Ortega, Andrea E. Tyler, Michel Achard, Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel, Marion Blondel, Dominique Boutet, Gilad Brandes0, Monica Ekiert1, Maryia Fedzechkina2, Kimberly Geeslin3, T. Florian Jaeger4, Ursula Kania5, Sol Lago6, Marvin Lam7, Fenfen Le8, Sarah Lee9, Bret Linford0, Graham Lock1, Avizia Y. Long2, Maisa Martin3, Silvia Marijuan4, Christian Matthiessen M.I.M.5, Aliyah Morgenstern6, Elissa L. Newport7, Jack Pun8, Dorit Ravid9, Cristina Sanz0, Diana Slade1, Megan Solon2, Taina Tammelin-Laine3, Amy S. Thompson4, Stefanie Wulff5, Helen Zhao6 ...
    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism, a cadre of international experts say yes and offer cutting-edge research in usage-based linguistics to explore how language acquisition, in particular multilingual language acquisition, works.Each chapter presents an original study that supports the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Processing Instruction

    Theory, Research, and Commentary

    Edited by BIll VanPatten ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    This new book, Processing Instruction: Theory, Research, and Commentary, edited by Bill VanPatten--a pioneer in processing instruction (PI)--is a refreshing presentation of 10 related and not widely available articles that illustrate the role of processing instruction in second language acquisition. The articles provide both historical and current context, as well as describe the influence of the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Social Signal Processing

    Edited by Judee K. Burgoon, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Maja Pantic, Alessandro Vinciarelli ...
    Social Signal Processing is the first book to cover all aspects of the modeling, automated detection, analysis, and synthesis of nonverbal behavior in human-human and human-machine interactions. Authoritative surveys address conceptual foundations, machine analysis and synthesis of social signal processing, and applications. Foundational topics include affect perception and interpersonal ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Assessing Multilingual Children

    Disentangling Bilingualism from Language Impairment

    Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem, Natalia Meir, Jan de Jong ...
    Series Book 13 - Communication Disorders Across Languages
    Second language learners often produce language forms resembling those of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). At present, professionals working in language assessment and education have only limited diagnostic instruments to distinguish language impaired migrant children from those who will eventually catch up with their monolingual peers. This book presents a comprehensive set of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning

    by TURNBULL, Miles, DAILEY-O'CAIN, Jennifer ...
    This book focuses on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms. Through the intersection of theory, practice, curriculum and policy, the volume calls for a reconceptualization of code-switching as something that both proficient and aspiring bilinguals do naturally, and as a practice that is inherently linked with bilingual code-switching. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Mixed Methods Research in the Movement Sciences

    Case Studies in Sport, Physical Education and Dance

    Edited by Oleguer Camerino, Marta Castaner, Teresa Anguera ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science
    Mixed methods research techniques, combining both quantitative and qualitative elements, have become well established throughout the social, behavioural and natural sciences. This is the first book to focus on the application of mixed methods research in the movement sciences, specifically in sport, physical education and dance. Researchers and practitioners in each of these fields are concerned ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities

    by Lourdes Ortega, Heidi Byrnes ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    Researchers and educators routinely call for longitudinal research on language learning and teaching. The present volume explores the connection between longitudinal study and advanced language capacities, two under-researched areas, and proposes an agenda for future research. Five chapters probe theoretical and methodological reflections about the longitudinal study of advanced L2 capacities, ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Errors and Intelligence in Computer-Assisted Language Learning

    Parsers and Pedagogues

    by Trude Heift, Mathias Schulze ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning
    This book provides the first comprehensive overview of theoretical issues, historical developments and current trends in ICALL (Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning). It assumes a basic familiarity with Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theory and teaching, CALL and linguistics. It is of interest to upper undergraduate and/or graduate students who study CALL, SLA, language pedagogy, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD