Pragmatics of Chinese as Native and Target Language

Kasper: Pragmatics of Chinese (Technical Report)

Humor & Entertainment

Kasper, Gabriele

Puzzles & Games

National Foreign Langauge Resource Center

Although the study of cross-cultural pragmatics has gained importance in applied linguistics, there are no standard forms of assessment that might make research comparable across studies and languages. The present volume describes the process through which six forms of cross-cultural assessment were developed for second language learners of English. The models may be used for second language learners of other languages. The six forms of assessment involve two forms each of indirect discourse completion tests, oral language production, and self-assessment. The procedures involve the assessment of requests, apologies, and refusals.

Hudson: Dev Prototypic Measures Pa (Technical Report)

Politics & Social Sciences

Hudson, Thom

Detmer, Emily

Brown, J.D.

Social Sciences

Attention and Awareness in Foreign Language Learning (Technical Report)

Reference

SCHMIDT

Schmidt, Dr Richard

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Language Learning Motivation: Pathways to the New Century (Technical Report)

Words, Language & Grammar

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.

Language Learning Strategies Around the World: Cross Cultural Perspectives (Technical Report)

This volume focuses on the decision-making potential provided by second language performance assessments. The authors first situate performance assessment within a broader discussion of alternatives in language assessment and in educational assessment in general. They then discuss issues in performance assessment design, implementation, reliability, and validity. Finally, they present a prototype framework for second language performance assessment based on the integration of theoretical underpinnings and research findings from the task-based language teaching literature, the language testing literature, and the educational measurement literature. The authors outline test and item specifications, and they present numerous examples of prototypical language tasks. They also propose a research agenda focusing on the operationalization of second language performance assessments.

Designing second language performance assessments (Technical Report)

Brown, James Dean

Norris, John M.

Hudson, Thom H.

This volume -the second in this series concerned with motivation and foreign language learning- includes papers presented in a state-of-the-art colloquium on second language motivation at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (Vancouver, 2000) and a number of specially commissioned studies. The 20 chapters, written by some of the best-known researchers in the field, cover a wide range of theoretical and research methodological issues and also offer empirical results (both qualitative and quantitative) concerning the learning of many different languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, Filipino, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish) in a broad range of learning contexts (Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Spain, and the US).

Motivation And Second Language Acquisition (Technical Report)

Aozora develops intermediate students' oral and written communicative skills and provides insights into Japanese society and culture. The text encourages students to participate actively in a variety of authentic and intellectually stimulating activities. An instructor's guide is available separately. Replaces audio CDs with online access to MP3 files.

Aozora: Intermediate-Advance Japanese Communication-2nd Ed. (Japanese and English Edition)

Fujii, Noriko

Contributors examine the sociocultural, cognitive-linguistic, and educational-institutional trajectories along which Chinese as a heritage language may be acquired, maintained, and developed.

Chinese As A Heritage Language: Fostering rooted world citizenry (Nflrc Monographs)

Xiao

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 learners, and population changes affect language placement decisions.

Case Studies in Foreign Language Placement: Practices and Possibilities

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