Authors:Claudia V. Angelelli, Holly E. Jacobson,
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: translators, american, association, scholarly, series, monograph, practice, research, translation, assessment, interpreting, studies, dialogue, testing
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 2009-10-15
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 9027231907
ISBN-13: 9789027231901

"Testing and Assessment in Translation and Interpreting Studies" examines issues of measurement that are essential to translation and interpreting. Conceptualizing testing both as a process and a product, the collection of papers explores these issues across languages and settings (including university classrooms, research projects, the private sector, and professional associations). The authors have approached their chapters from different perspectives using a variety of methods, some focusing on very specific variables, and others providing a much broader overview of the issues at hand. The

Author: Edda Weigand
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: dialogue, studies, rhetoric
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2008-10-09
List price: $158.00
ISBN-10: 9027210195
ISBN-13: 9789027210197

Author: Susanne Michaelis
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: creole, superstrates, language, library, substrates, contribution, structures, weighing, roots
Number of Pages: 425
Published: 2008-10-29
List price: $158.00
ISBN-10: 9027252556
ISBN-13: 9789027252555

Authors:Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves, Martin Warren,
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: corpus, english, prosodic, studies, linguistics, spoken, hong, driven, study, discourse, intonation, kong
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 2008-11-15
List price: $158.00
ISBN-10: 9027223068
ISBN-13: 9789027223067

Authors:Eija Suomela-Salmi, Fred Dervin,
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: cross, amp, new, series, pragmatics, academic, linguistic, cultural, perspectives, discourse
Number of Pages: 299
Published: 2009-11-19
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 9027254370
ISBN-13: 9789027254375

Author: Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: language, companion, series, studies, interface, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, investigations
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2008-11-21
List price: $173.00
ISBN-10: 9027205728
ISBN-13: 9789027205728

Author: Karin Aijmer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: corpus, linguistics, studies, teaching, language, corpora
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-01-14
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 9027223076
ISBN-13: 9789027223074

The articles in this edited volume represent a broad coverage of areas. They discuss the role and effectiveness of corpora and corpus-linguistic techniques for language teaching but also deal with broader issues such as the relationship between corpora and second language teaching and how the different perspectives of foreign language teachers and applied linguists can be reconciled. A number of concrete examples are given of how authentic corpus material can be used for different learning activities in the classroom. It is also shown how specific learner problems for example in the area of ph