Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities : Constructs, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment.

Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities : Constructs, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment.

Advanced language learning has only recently begun to capture the interest and attention of applied linguists and professionals in language education in the United States. In this breakthrough volume, experts in the field lay the groundwork for approaching the increasingly important role of advanced...

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Main Author: Byrnes, Heidi
Other Authors: Weger-Guntharp, Heather D., Sprang, Katherine A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2006.
Series:Georgetown University Round Table on Languages & Linguistics
Subjects:
Language and languages > Study and teaching (Higher) > Congresses.
Language and languages > Study and teaching (Higher)
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface; 1 Locating the Advanced Learner in Theory, Research, and Educational Practice: An Introduction; PART I: COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO ADVANCED LANGUAGE LEARNING; 2 The Conceptual Basis of Grammatical Structure; 3 The Impact of Grammatical Temporal Categories on Ultimate Attainment in L2 Learning; 4 Reorganizing Principles of Information Structure in Advanced L2s: French and German Learners of English; 5 Language-Based Processing in Advanced L2 Production and Translation: An Exploratory Study.
  • 6 Learning and Teaching Grammar through Patterns of Conceptualization: The Case of (Advanced) KoreanPART II: DESCRIPTIVE AND INSTRUCTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS IN ADVANCED LEARNING; 7 Narrative Competence in a Second Language; 8 Lexical Inferencing in L1 and L2: Implications for Vocabulary Instruction and Learning at Advanced Levels; 9 From Sports to the EU Economy: Integrating Curricula through Genre-Based Content Courses; 10 Hedging and Boosting in Advanced-Level L2 Legal Writing.

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