Download or read book Project Work Second Edition written by Diana L. Fried-Booth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a variety of accessible ideas for projects inside and outside the classroom. This work features tasks that give participants the chance to improve their competence in the four skills as well as in useful areas such as giving presentations, making a video, and producing reports and articles.

Download or read book Principle Based Parsing written by R. C. Berwick and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Language in the Public Space written by Holger Schmitt and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As soon as we leave our private sphere, we are surrounded by a multitude of written messages in various shapes and forms: billboards, shop names, regulatory signs ('STOP'), memorial plaques, messages on clothing, graffiti and many others. In short, we enter a 'Linguistic Landscape' (LL). Language in the public space, however, often follows very different patterns from most other written texts. It tends to be, for example, syntactically simple, pragmatically right to the point, highly creative, visually oriented and multilingual. LL studies are still a fairly young discipline, with an unsettled research agenda and many questions still open. This introduction approaches language in the public space from a wide variety of linguistic perspectives. It covers some of the well-established topics like multilingualism and aspects of semiotics, but goes far beyond them. Features studied include names, writing systems, grammar, dialect and potential applications for language teaching. Each of the main chapters concludes with a series of questions for reflection or independent research as well as a number of suggestions for further reading. Two hundred b/w photographs provide rich illustration. - Holger Schmitt is a linguist (MA, PhD, Habilitation) who taught English Linguistics at various German universities (Koblenz-Landau, Bonn, Karlsruhe, Wuppertal, Konstanz). His areas of specialisation are sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, and educational linguistics.

Download or read book It s Easy to Mingle when You are Bilingual written by Peter H. Nelde and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book W orte written by Siegrun Wildner and published by Studien Verlag, Austria. This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This bilingual anthology presents contemporary prose fiction, essays, and poems by well-known writers from the multiethnic and multilingual Italian province of South Tyrol: Helene Floss, Sabine Gruber, Norbert C. Kaser, Gerhard Kofler, Kurt Lanthaler, Sepp Mall, Josef Oberhollenzer, Anita Pichler, Konrad Rabensteiner, Luis Stefan Stcher, and Joseph Zoderer. The texts can be accessed in the German original and, for the first time, in English translations. A concise history of South Tyrolean literature since the 1960s and a glossary of special regional terms complement this unique selection of texts."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Exploring Second Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes written by Joybrato Mukherjee and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes and second-language varieties are typically non-native forms of English that emerge in language contact situations, it is high time that they are described and compared on an empirical basis in order to draw conceptual and theoretical conclusions with regard to their form, function and acquisition. The present collection of articles places special emphasis on empirical evidence obtained from large-scale analyses of computerised corpora of learner Englishes (such as the International Corpus of Learner English) and of second-language varieties of English (such as the International Corpus of English). It addresses questions such as ‘Are the phenomena we find in ESL and EFL varieties features or errors?’ or ‘How common and wide-spread are features across contact varieties of English?’