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Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy

By: Rod Ellis

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Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy

By: Rod Ellis

This book examines current research centered on the second language classroom and the implications of this research for both the teaching and learning of foreign languages. It offers illuminating insights into the important relationship between research and teaching, and the inherent complexities of the teaching and learning of foreign languages in classroom settings. Offers an accessible overview of a range of research on instruction and learning in the L2 classroom Bridges the relationship between research, teachers, and learners Helps evolve the practice of dedicated current language teachers with research findings that suggest best practices for language teaching

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118291379

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9781118291375

The Study of Second Language Acquisition

By: Rod Ellis

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The Study of Second Language Acquisition

By: Rod Ellis

An up to date comprehensive introduction to second language acqusition research. Contains a general framework for the study of second language acquisition, provides a general description of learner language, accounts for the role of the linguistic environment, examines the learner's internal mechanisms, explores individual differences in language learning and reviews the expanding research on classroom second language acquisition.

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Oxford University

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0194371891

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Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching

By: Rod Ellis

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Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching

By: Rod Ellis

Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all learners and in all instructional contexts. This book draws on the author’s experience of working with teachers, together with his knowledge of relevant research and theory, to examine the key issues. It proposes flexible ways in which tasks can be designed and implemented in the language classroom to address the problems that teachers often face with task-based language teaching. It will appeal to researchers and teachers who are interested in task-based language teaching and the practical and theoretical issues involved. It will also be of interest to students and researchers working in the areas of applied linguistics, TESOL and second language acquisition.

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273

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Multilingual Matters

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1788920155

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9781788920155

Down The Row From Benjamin

By: Rod Hollaway

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Down The Row From Benjamin

By: Rod Hollaway

Down the Row From Benjamin is the story of the life-long love between Ellis Ashton and his recently deceased wife, Rosa. Their life together has been full of challenges that they have met and overcome. Together they built a life and a successful textile business. In the weeks following the death of Rosa, Ellis has withdrawn and is overcome by despair, until the letter that challenges him again. The letter, written by Rosa just weeks before her death, asks one last thing from Ellis. Please, she begs, you must tell Craig about Benjamin. Tell him everything about the family that we've hidden all these years. Tell our son about his real parents and why they weren't here for him. It's time for him to know it all. And so it begins.... Ellis starts to write everything in a journal while sitting at Rosa's gravesite for hours every day. Everything goes into his journal: the guilt Ellis feels after witnessing the murder of his father. Why it was necessary to change their name before Craig had even seen his father. What was the awful truth about Craig's mother that they never told him? Who is and who isn't a part of the Ashton clan? How life began to settle and even improve when his life included Rosa, and then how quickly perfection was torn apart and his future with Rosa was no longer guaranteed. In fact, it was uncertain if he even had a future in a world torn apart by war. Ellis struggles against the well-intentioned concerns of his family over his newly diagnosed heart problem. In addition, his friends and family have noted his gradually increasing confusion and his seemingly obsessive need to complete the journal. Ellis battles exhaustion and failing health to complete the epic story for Craig as he had promised Rosa. Desperation leads to his final reckless act to conclude the story.

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325

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iUniverse

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1469773198

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The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader

An Eyewitness History of the Civil WarÕs Greatest Battle

By: Rod Gragg

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The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader

An Eyewitness History of the Civil WarÕs Greatest Battle

By: Rod Gragg

Examines the Battle of Gettysburg through letters, journals, articles, and speeches from the people who lived through those days.

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Regnery Publishing

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1621570436

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9781621570431

Second Language Acquisition

By: Rod Ellis

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Second Language Acquisition

By: Rod Ellis

This book offers a succinct theoretical introduction to the basic concepts in language testing in a way that is easy to understand. In the Japanese context, this book is highly recommended for university faculty members involved in obtaining assessment literacy, teachers who want to validate their exploratory teaching and testing, or applied linguistics students new to the language testing field. The book is divided into four main sections. The first provides an overview of the principles of language testing. The next contains short extracts from the testing literature with questions which stimulate further thinking. Section 3 is a list of references with brief annotations and Section 4 a glossary of referenced testing terms.

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Oxford University Press

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019437212X

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9780194372121

Representing the South Pacific

Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin

By: Rod Edmond

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Representing the South Pacific

Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin

By: Rod Edmond

This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists between 1767 and 1914 by drawing on history, literature, art history, and anthropology. Edmond engages with colonial texts and postcolonial theory, criticising both for their failure to acknowledge the historical specificity of colonial discourses and cultural encounters, and for continuing to see indigenous cultures in essentially passive or reactive terms. The book offers a detailed and grounded 'reading back' of these colonial discourses into the metropolitan centres which gave rise to them, while resisting the idea that all representations of other cultures are merely self-representations. Among its themes are the persistent myth-making around the figure of Cook, the western obsession with Polynesian sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism, and leprosy, and the Pacific as a theatre for adventure and as a setting for Europe's displaced fears of its own cultural extinction.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521550548

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9780521550543

The Psychology of Humor

An Integrative Approach

By: Rod A. Martin,Thomas Ford

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The Psychology of Humor

An Integrative Approach

By: Rod A. Martin,Thomas Ford

Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical day. Humor serves multiple purposes, and although there is a sizable and expanding research literature on the subject, the research is spread in a variety of disciplines. The Psychology of Humor, 2e reviews the literature, integrating research from across subdisciplines in psychology, as well as related fields such as anthropology, biology, computer science, linguistics, sociology, and more. This book begins by defining humor and presenting theories of humor. Later chapters cover cognitive processes involved in humor and the effects of humor on cognition. Individual differences in personality and humor are identified as well as the physiology of humor, the social functions of humor, and how humor develops and changes over the lifespan. This book concludes noting the association of humor with physical and mental health, and outlines applications of humor use in psychotherapy, education, and the workplace. In addition to being fully updated with recent research, the second edition includes a variety of new materials. More graphs, tables, and figures now illustrate concepts, processes, and theories. It provides new brief interviews with prominent humor scholars via text boxes. The end of each chapter now includes a list of key concepts, critical thinking questions, and a list of resources for further reading. - Covers research on humor and laughter in every area of psychology - Integrates research findings into a coherent conceptual framework - Includes brain imaging studies, evolutionary models, and animal research - Integrates related information from sociology, linguistics, neuroscience, and anthropology - Explores applications of humor in psychotherapy, education, and the workplace - Provides new research, plus key concepts and chapter summaries

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550

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Academic Press

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0128135093

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9780128135099

Task-based Language Learning and Teaching

By: Rod Ellis

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Task-based Language Learning and Teaching

By: Rod Ellis

This book explores the relationship between research, teaching, and tasks, and seeks to clarify the issues raised by recent work in this field. The book shows how research and task-based teaching can mutually inform each other and illuminate the areas of task-based course design, methodology, and assessment. The author brings an accessible style and broad scope to an area of contemporary importance to both SLA and language pedagogy.

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Oxford University Press

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0194421597

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9780194421591

Moonshine Express

Revised Edition with a History of Moonshine Today and Yesterday

By: Rod Norville

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Moonshine Express

Revised Edition with a History of Moonshine Today and Yesterday

By: Rod Norville

Rob and his friend Katie are on the run from Seminole Indians who are criminals because they were seen committing a crime.

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1891929992

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CD-ROM Classics

Cheats and Hints to Your Favorite Games

By: Rick Barba,Michael Knight,Rod Harten

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Cheats and Hints to Your Favorite Games

By: Rick Barba,Michael Knight,Rod Harten

Prima's back to guide you through the most challenging and enduring PC games available-- 15 games in all. There's no fluff here; the most bare-bones, yet complete, methods for defeating your favorite games are within the pages of "CD-Rom Game Classics, Volume 2." One guide-- fifteen games! Including: - Command & Conquer - Command & Conquer: Red Alert - - Crusader: No Regret - Diablo - Duke Nukem 3D - - Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail - MechWarrior II: Mercenaries - Myst - - Pandora Directive - Phantasmagoria II - Quake - - Sid Meier's Civilization II - Timelapse - WarCraft II - Zork Nemesis - About the Authors Rick Barba is a game designer and author or co-author of numerous game books, including "Myst: The Official Strategy Guide." Michael Knight is a technical editor and the author of Prima's "Steel Panthers II: The Official Strategy Guide." Rod Harten is a technical editor for Prima and co-author of "Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Price of Loyalty-- The Official Strategy Guide.

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Prima Games

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0761511520

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9780761511526

Understanding Second Language Acquisition 2nd Edition

By: Rod Ellis

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Understanding Second Language Acquisition 2nd Edition

By: Rod Ellis

In the 30 years since Rod Ellis first published the award-winning Understanding Second Language Acquisition, it has become a classic text. This new, fully updated edition continues to provide an authoritative and highly readable introduction to key areas of theory and research in second language acquisition. Ellis presents a comprehensive overview of the different theories in this field and examines critical reactions to them. The book reflects recent trends in looking at cognitive and social aspects of second language acquisition, as well as examining the roles played by implicit and explicit instruction in language learning. “An excellent and much-needed, in-depth review of the research on how children and literate adults learn a second language. Ellis provides a sound knowledge base for language teachers and beginning graduate students in applied linguistics, focusing on relevant findings of research on second-language learning by children and literate adults in both naturalistic and instructed contexts.” Elaine Tarone, Director of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota Additional online resources are available at www.oup.com/elt/teacher/understandingsla Rod Ellis is the Distinguished Professor of Applied Language Studies in the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics in the University of Auckland. Oxford Applied Linguistics Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen-Freeman.

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Oxford University Press

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0194422011

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9780194422017

Learning a Second Language through Interaction

By: Rod Ellis

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Learning a Second Language through Interaction

By: Rod Ellis

This book examines different theoretical perspectives on the role that interaction plays in second language acquisition. The principal perspectives are those afforded by the Interaction Hypothesis, Socio-Cultural Theory and the Levels of Processing model. Interaction is, therefore, defined broadly; it is seen as involving both intermental and intramental activity. The theoretical perspectives are explored empirically in a series of studies which investigate the relationship between aspects of interaction and second language acquisition. A number of these studies consider the effects of interaction on the acquisition of vocabulary (word meanings) by both adult and child L2 learners. In addition, the effects of language aptitude on input processing are considered. Further studies consider the contribution that interaction makes to the acquisition of grammatical knowledge. These studies provide clear evidence that social and intermental interaction are major forces in the acquisition of an L2. Finally, the book, considers a number of pedagogic specifications. In particular, the importance of discourse control as a means of learners’ obtaining the quality of interaction likely to foster acquisition is discussed.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027298874

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9789027298874

Book's by Rod Ellis

Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy

Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy

The Study of Second Language Acquisition

The Study of Second Language Acquisition

Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching

Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching

Down The Row From Benjamin

Down The Row From Benjamin

The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader

The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader

Second Language Acquisition

Second Language Acquisition

Representing the South Pacific

Representing the South Pacific

The Psychology of Humor

The Psychology of Humor

Task-based Language Learning and Teaching

Task-based Language Learning and Teaching

Moonshine Express

Moonshine Express

CD-ROM Classics

CD-ROM Classics

Understanding Second Language Acquisition 2nd Edition

Understanding Second Language Acquisition 2nd Edition

Learning a Second Language through Interaction

Learning a Second Language through Interaction

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