This text relates the author's stories about how languages have integrated her being, and defined and formed her sense of self. The author who is a multilingual Russian immigrant, tells stories to help language students understand why and at what price successful language acquisition is realistic.
This volume brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistic settings in which this phenomenon of 'conversational code-switching' ..
Even though second-language learners may master the grammar and vocabulary of the new languages, they almost never achieve a native phonology (accent)..
This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. The volume is the outcome of an in..
The Think-Aloud Controversy in Second Language Research aims to answer key questions about the validity and uses of think-alouds, verbal reports compl..
This book locates dialogic pedagogy within the history of TESOL approaches and methods within which the communitive approach has been the dominant par..
This is a collection of articles and activities designed to engage practicing and prospective ESOL teachers in an ongoing process of reflecting on, cr..
This book provides a comprehensive collection of empirical studies and critical commentary that bring Processing Instruction up to date but also lay t..
Society is becoming increasingly multi-lingual and this presents monolingual professionals, particularly those in special education and speech patholo..