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Vocabulary in a Second Language
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 158.00The eleven chapters of Vocabulary in a Second Language are written by the world?s leading researchers in the field of vocabulary studies in second language acquisition. Each chapter presents experimental research leading to new conclusions about and insights into the selection, the learning and teaching, or the testing of vocabulary knowledge in... more...
Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 120.00This book takes stock of current research into computer learner corpora conducted both by ELT and SLA specialists. It should be of particular interest to researchers looking to assess its relevance to SLA theory and ELT practice. Throughout the volume, emphasis is also placed on practical, methodological aspects of computer learner corpus research,... more...
Corpora and Language Learners
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 149.00Corpus-aided language pedagogy is one of the central application areas of corpus methodologies, and a test bed for theories of language and learning. This volume provides an overview of current trends, offering methodological and theoretical position statements along with results from empirical studies. The relationship between corpora and learning... more...
Dictionary Use in Foreign Language Writing Exams
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 158.00This book provides an in-depth analysis of what happens when intermediate level learners of a foreign language use a bilingual dictionary when writing. Dictionaries are frequently promoted to people learning a foreign language. Nevertheless, teachers often talk about their students? inability to use dictionaries properly, especially when they write,... more...
Discourse Intonation in L2
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 128.00Intonation, rhythm, and general “melody” of language are among the first aspects of speech that infants attend to and produce themselves. Yet, these same features are among the last to be mastered by adult L2 learners. Why is this, and how can L2 learners be helped? This book first presents the latest linguistic theories of intonation,... more...
Electronic Discourse in Language Learning and Language Teaching
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 143.00New technologies are constantly transforming traditional notions of language use and literacy in online communication environments. While previous research has provided a foundation for understanding the use of new technologies in instructed second language environments, few studies have investigated new literacies and electronic discourse beyond the... more...
The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 188.00Although it is widely thought that structural linguistics began abruptly with the publication of Saussure's 'revolutionary' Course in General Linguistics , the work of E. F. K. Koerner has demonstrated that Saussure, for all his originality, remained true to the basic tenets of his 19th-century predecessors. In this volume, the development of modern... more...
The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 188.00Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional... more...
Formulaic Sequences
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 147.00Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentrating on how FS are acquired and processed by the mind, both in the L1 and L2. The ten original... more...
From Case to Adposition
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 195.00In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposition), which developed out of the uninflected particle/preverbs in the older... more...









