Language for a New Century
Title | Language for a New Century PDF eBook |
Author | Tina Chang |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 788 |
Release | 2008-03-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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An extensive collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry includes the work of four hundred contributors from a variety of backgrounds, in a thematically organized anthology that is complemented by personal essays.
Language in the 21st Century
Title | Language in the 21st Century PDF eBook |
Author | Humphrey Tonkin |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781588113849 |
What is the future of languages in an increasingly globalized world? Are we moving toward the use of a single language for global communication, or are there ways of managing language diversity at the international level? Can we, or should we, maintain a balance between the global need to communicate and the maintenance of local and regional identities and cultures? What is the role of education, of language rights, of language equality in this volatile global linguistic mix? A group of leading scholars in sociolinguistics and language policy examines trends in language use across the world to find answers to these questions and to make predictions about likely outcomes. Highlighted in the discussion are, among other issues, the rapidly changing role of English, the equally rapid decline and death of small languages, the future of the major European languages, the international use of constructed languages like Esperanto, and, not least, the question of what role applied scholarship can and should play in mapping and influencing the future.
Language Learning Motivation
Title | Language Learning Motivation PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca L. Oxford |
Publisher | Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0824818490 |
This volume chronicles a revolution in our thinking about what makes students want to learn languages and what causes them to persist in that difficult and rewarding adventure. Topics in this book include the internal structures of and external connections with foreign language motivation; exploring adult language learning motivation, self-efficacy, and anxiety; comparing the motivation and learning strategies of students of Japanese and Spanish; and enhancing the theory of language learning motivation from many psychological and social perspectives.
Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century
Title | Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century PDF eBook |
Author | National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 526 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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This volume incorporates the national standards for the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Classical Languages, French, German, Italian, Japanese Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Dialectics for the New Century
Title | Dialectics for the New Century PDF eBook |
Author | B. Ollman |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2008-02-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0230583814 |
This anthology contains some of the more important Marxist thinkers now working on dialectics. As a whole the book is an unusual 'Introduction to Dialectics', a systematic restatement of what it is and how to use it, a survey of most of the main debates in the field, and a good picture of the current state of the art of dialectics.
Language in the USA
Title | Language in the USA PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Finegan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 524 |
Release | 2004-06-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521777476 |
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Visual Language
Title | Visual Language PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. Horn |
Publisher | Macrovu Incorporated |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Kommunikation |
ISBN | 9781892637093 |