Languaging Myths And Realities
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Author | : Qianqian Zhang-Wu |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1788926919 |
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Higher education institutions in Anglophone countries often rely on standardized English language proficiency exams to assess the linguistic capabilities of their multilingual international students. However, there is often a mismatch between these scores and the initial experiences of international students in both academic and social contexts. Drawing on a digital ethnography of Chinese international students’ first semester languaging practices, this book examines their challenges, needs and successes on their initial languaging journeys in higher education. It analyzes how they use their rich multilingual and multi-modal communicative repertories to facilitate languaging across contexts, in order to suggest how university support systems might better serve the needs of multilingual international students.
Author | : Thomas K. Ricento |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1998-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1135681058 |
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Explores parallel and divergent developments in language policy and language rights in the U.S. and Canada, especially the past 4 decades, as a basis for reflection on what can be learned from one country's experience by the other.
Author | : Katharine Davies Samway |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780325000572 |
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Identifies some of the myths that have appeared regarding the education of language minority students in the U.S., discusses the basic research that refutes the myths, and looks at some of the most effective programs and practices for teaching language minority students.
Author | : Laurie Bauer |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1998-11-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0141939109 |
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A unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: The Media Are Ruining English; Children Can't Speak or Write Properly Anymore; America is Ruining the English Language. The tone is lively and entertaining throughout and there are cartoons from Doonesbury andThe Wizard of Id to illustrate some of the points. The book should have a wide readership not only amongst students who want to read leading linguists writing about popular misconceptions but also amongst the large number of people who enjoy reading about language in general.
Author | : John DeFrancis |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1986-03-01 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780824810689 |
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"DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York "Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley
Author | : Mircea Eliade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2020-12-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780967657509 |
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Author | : Ernst Cassirer |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2012-06-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0486122271 |
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In this important study, Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought processes that go to make up culture. Includes studies of the metaphysics of the Bhagavat Gita, Ancient Egyptian religion, symbolic logic, and more.
Author | : Paul Vincent Cassano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780994921901 |
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Author | : Roderick Dale |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2021-12-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429650361 |
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The viking berserkr is an iconic warrior normally associated with violent fits of temper and the notorious berserksgangr or berserker frenzy. This book challenges the orthodox view that these men went ‘berserk’ in the modern English sense of the word. It examines all the evidence for medieval perceptions of berserkir and builds a model of how the medieval audience would have viewed them. Then, it extrapolates a Viking Age model of berserkir from this model, and supports the analysis with anthropological and archaeological evidence, to create a new and more accurate paradigm of the Viking Age berserkr and his place in society. This shows that berserkir were the champions of lords and kings, members of the social elite, and that much of what is believed about them is based on 17th-century and later scholarship and mythologizing: the medieval audience would have had a very different understanding of the Old Norse berserkr from that which people have now. The book sets out a challenge to rethink and reframe our perceptions of the past in a way that is less influenced by our own modern ideas. The Myths and Realities of the Viking berserkr will appeal to researchers and students alike studying the Viking Age, Medieval History and Old Norse Literature.
Author | : Barbara J. Leadholm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Developmentally disabled children |
ISBN | : |
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