Authors:Zoltán Dörnyei, Richard Schmidt,
Publisher: National Foreign Language Resource Center
Keywords: technical, report, acquisition, language, second, motivation
Number of Pages: 524
Published: 2001-06-06
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 082482458X
ISBN-13: 9780824824587

This volume includes papers presented at a colloquium on second language motivation at the American Association for Applied Linguistics.

Authors:Thom Hudson, Martyn Clark,
Publisher: National Foreign Language Resource Center
Keywords: practices, possibilities, placement, language, studies, foreign, case
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2008-09-08
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0980045908
ISBN-13: 9780980045901

Although most language programs make placement decisions on the basis of placement tests, there is surprisingly little published about different contexts and systems of placement testing. The present volume contains case studies of placement programs in foreign language programs at the tertiary level across the United States. The different programs span the spectrum from large programs servicing hundreds of students annually to small language programs with very few students. The contributions to this volume address such issues as how the size of the program, presence or absence of heritage lea

Authors:Michael E. Everson, Helen H. Shen,
Publisher: National Foreign Language Resource Center
Keywords: foreign, language, chinese, learners, among, research
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2010-02-05
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0980045940
ISBN-13: 9780980045949

Cutting-edge in its approach and international in its authorship, this fourth monograph in a series sponsored by the Chinese Language Teachers Association features eight research studies that explore a variety of themes, topics, and perspectives important to a variety of stakeholders in the Chinese language learning community. Employing a wide range of research methodologies, the volume provides data from actual Chinese language learners and will be of value to both theoreticians and practitioners alike. [in English & Chinese]

Authors:James Dean Brown, Kimi Kondo-Brown,
Publisher: National Foreign Language Resource Center
Keywords: speakers, nflrc, monographs, language, second, teaching, connected, speech, perspectives
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0824831365
ISBN-13: 9780824831363

A collection of fourteen articles on connected speech of interest to teachers, researchers, and materials developers in both ESL/EFL and Japanese.

Author: Rebecca L. Oxford
Publisher: National Foreign Language Resource Center
Keywords: language, foreign, center, technical, series, reports, national, perspectives, learning, strategies, world, cross, cultural
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1996-10-31
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0824819101
ISBN-13: 9780824819101

Language learning strategies are the specific steps students take to improve their progress in learning a second or foreign language. Optimizing learning strategies improves language performance. This ground-breaking book presents new information about cultural influences on the use of language learning strategies. It also shows innovative ways to assess students’ strategy use and remarkable techniques for helping students improve their choice of strategies, with the goal of peak language learning.

Authors:Hanh thi Nguyen, Gabriele Kasper,
Publisher: National Foreign Language Resource Center
Keywords: perspectives, multilingual, interaction
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2009-03-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0980045916
ISBN-13: 9780980045918

Talk-in-interaction: Multilingual perspectives (edited by Gabriele Kasper & Hanh Thi Nguyen) offers original studies of interaction in a range of languages and language varieties, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, and Vietnamese; monolingual and bilingual interactions, and activities designed for second or foreign language learning. Conducted from the perspectives of conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis, the chapters examine ordinary conversation and institutional activities in face-to-face, telephone, and computer-mediated enviro

Authors:Gabriele Kasper, Hanh thi Nguyen, Dina Rudolph Yoshi
Publisher: National Foreign Language Resource Center
Keywords: volume, learning, language, pragmatics
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 2010-06-14
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0980045967
ISBN-13: 9780980045963

Pragmatics & Language Learning Volume 12 examines the organization of second language and multilingual speakers’ talk and pragmatic knowledge across a range of naturalistic and experimental activities. Based on data collected on Danish, English, Hawai’i Creole, Indonesian, and Japanese as target languages, the contributions explore the nexus of pragmatic knowledge, interaction, and L2 learning outside and inside of educational settings.