The Connections Between Language And Reading Disabilities
By Hugh W. Catts, Alan G. Kamhi
* Publisher:Lawrence Erlbaum
* Number Of Pages:248
* Publication Date:2004-12-28
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0805850015
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780805850017
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This is an edited book based on papers presented at a 2003 invitee-only conference under the sponsorship of the Merrill Advanced Studies Center of the University of Kansas. The participants were prominent scholars in the areas of language and reading, and have research programs funded by NIH and other sources. The purpose of the gathering was to discuss theoretical issues and research findings concerning the relationship between developmental language and reading disabilities, specifically looking at neurological, behavioral, and genetic factors. In addition, it discussed other factors contributing to reading difficulties in the middle elementary school years through adolescence and literacy outcomes for children with early language impairments, and how these problems relate to children with dyslexia. The Foreword is written by Reid Lyon, Branch Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch, NICHD-National Institutes of Health.
This book appeals to scholars in the areas of language disorders and reading disabilities, as well as to practicing speech-language pathologists, special educators, and reading specialists. It may also be used in graduate courses designed as seminars in either language disorders or reading disabilities in schools of communication disorders, as well as schools of education--especially special education departments.
Summary: The Connections Between Language And Reading Disabilities
Rating: 5
A great up-to-date book for speech/language pathologists and reading specialists. Very in-depth. This book is probably too technical for individuals without specialized background.
Summary: If only special ed personnel would read books like this...
Rating: 5
Cutting edge research on the neuropsychology of reading disabilities. For neuropsychologists who puzzle over the "poor comprehenders" (v. those w/phonological processing problems), this volume will answer many questions.
Argumentative Indicators in Discourse: A Pragma-Dialectical Study (Argumentation Library)
By Frans H. van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser, A.F. Snoeck Henkemans
* Publisher:Springer
* Number Of Pages:234
* Publication Date:2007-07-17
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1402062435
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781402062438
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Argumentative Indicators: A Pragma-Dialectical Study identifies and analyses English words and expressions that are crucial for an adequate reconstruction of argumentative discourse. It provides the analyst of argumentative discussions and texts with a systematic set of instruments for giving a well founded analysis which results in an analytic overview of the elements that are relevant for the evaluation of the argumentation. In the book a systematic connection is made between linguistic insights into the characteristics of argumentative discourse and insights from argumentation theory into the resolution of differences of opinion by means of argumentation.
Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms (Studies in English Language)
By Raymond Hickey
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:524
* Publication Date:2007-11-26
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521852994
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521852999
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English has been spoken in Ireland for over 800 years, making Irish English the oldest variety of the language outside Britain. This book traces the development of English in Ireland, both north and south, from the late middle ages to the present day. Drawing on authentic data ranging from medieval literature to authentic contemporary examples, it reveals how Irish English arose, how it has developed, and how it continues to change. A variety of central issues are considered in detail, such as the nature of language contact and the shift from Irish to English, the sociolinguistically-motivated changes in present-day Dublin English, the special features of Ulster Scots, and the transportation of Irish English to overseas locations as diverse as Canada, the United States, and Australia. Presenting a comprehensive survey of Irish English at all levels of linguistics, this book will be invaluable to historical linguists, sociolinguists, syntacticians and phonologists alike.
On Nature and Language
by: Noam Chomsky
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* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:216
* Publication Date:2002-10-14
* Sales Rank:341421
* ISBN / ASIN:052101624X
* EAN:9780521016247
* Binding:Paperback
* Manufacturer:Cambridge University Press
* Studio:Cambridge University Press
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Book Description:
In On Nature and Language Noam Chomsky develops his thinking on the relation between language, mind, and brain, integrating current research in linguistics into the burgeoning field of neuroscience. Following a lucid introduction is a penetrating interview with Chomsky, in which he provides the clearest and most elegant introduction to current theory available. It makes his Minimalist Program accessible to all. The volume concludes with an essay on the role of intellectuals in society and government. A significant landmark in the development of linguistic theory, On Nature and Language will be welcomed by students and researchers in theoretical linguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive science and politics, as well as anyone interested in the development of Chomsky's thought. Noam Chomsky is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky has written and lectured extensively on philosophy, intellectual history, and international affairs. His works include The Architecture of Language, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax; Cartesian Linguistics; Language and Mind; American Power and the New Mandarins; At War with Asia; For Reasons of State; Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Language; Rules and Representations; The Culture of Terrorism; Rethinking Camelot; JFKm the Vietnam War and US Political Culture; World Orders, Old and New and The Common Good.
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In On Nature and Language Noam Chomsky develops his thinking on the relation between language, mind, and brain, integrating current research in linguistics into the burgeoning field of neuroscience. Following a lucid introduction is a penetrating interview with Chomsky, in which he provides the clearest and most elegant introduction to current theory available. It makes his Minimalist Program accessible to all. The volume concludes with an essay on the role of intellectuals in society and government. A significant landmark in the development of linguistic theory, On Nature and Language will be welcomed by students and researchers in theoretical linguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive science and politics, as well as anyone interested in the development of Chomsky's thought. Noam Chomsky is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky has written and lectured extensively on philosophy, intellectual history, and international affairs. His works include The Architecture of Language, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax; Cartesian Linguistics; Language and Mind; American Power and the New Mandarins; At War with Asia; For Reasons of State; Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Language; Rules and Representations; The Culture of Terrorism; Rethinking Camelot; JFKm the Vietnam War and US Political Culture; World Orders, Old and New and The Common Good.
Globalization, Language And Culture (The New Global Society)
By Richard Lee
* Publisher:Chelsea House Publications
* Number Of Pages:128
* Publication Date:2005-09
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0791081893
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780791081891
Multifactorial Analysis in Corpus Linguistics (Open Linguistics Series)
By Stefan Thomas Gries
* Publisher:Continuum
* Number Of Pages:240
* Publication Date:2003-05-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0826461263
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780826461261
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This title presents an analysis of the word-order alternation of English transitive phrasal verbs (particle movement) from a cognitive-functional and psycholinguistic perspective. Its main objective, however, is a methodological one, namely to demonstrate the superiority of corpus-based, multifactorial and probabilistic approaches towards grammatical phenomena over traditional analyses based on acceptability judgements and minimal pair tests.
Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis (Continuum Discourse)
By Paul Baker
* Publisher:Continuum
* Number Of Pages:208
* Publication Date:2006-04-23
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0826477240
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780826477248
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This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including:
* collocations,
* keyness
* concordances
* dispersion plots
* building and annotating corpora
Illustrated with a number of real-life examples of corpus-based DA from a range of sources and covering a variety of subjects, this is an informative introduction to using corpus linguistics as a methodology in discourse analysis.
Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse (Human Cognitive Processing)
By Carl F. Graumann, Werner Kallmeyer
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:391
* Publication Date:2002-10
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027223610
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027223616
Product Description:
"Perspective" and "viewpoint" are widely used in everyday talk as well as in the specialist languages of the social, cognitive, and literary sciences. Taken from the field of visual perception and representation, these concepts have acquired a general meaning and significance, as characteristics of human cognitive processing. Since, however, this field is shared by an increasing body of disciplines, perspective terms have also acquired specific and technical meanings. A striking example is the newly introduced use of "perspectivation" in discourse analysis. This volume on "perspective and perspectivation" should help to fill the gap between the common understanding of perspective and the specifics of its structure and dynamics as they have been elaborated in the human sciences, mainly in psychology and linguistics. The focus is on the structure of perspectivity in cognition and language, and the dynamics of setting and taking perspectives in social interaction and in the construction and understanding of texts. Both topics are presented here in an interdisciplinary way by a group of linguists and psychologists.
Demonstratives and Definite Articles As Nominal Auxiliaries (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)
By Dorian Roehrs
* Publisher:John Benjamins Pub Co
* Number Of Pages:196
* Publication Date:2009-03-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027255237
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027255235
Thought and Language - Revised Edition
By Lev S. Vygotsky
* Publisher:The MIT Press
* Number Of Pages:344
* Publication Date:1986-08-28
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0262720108
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780262720106
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Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's highly original exploration of human mental development has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Vygotsky analyzes the relationship between words and consciousness, arguing that speech is social in its origins and that only as children develop does it become internalized verbal thought. Now Alex Kozulin has created a new edition of the original MIT Press translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar that restores the work's complete text and adds materials that will help readers better understand Vygotsky's meaning and intentions. Kozulin has also contributed an introductory essay that offers new insight into the author's life, intellectual milieu, and research methods. Lev S. Vygotsky (1896-1934) studied at Moscow University and acquired in his brief lifespan a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of the social sciences, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, literature, and the arts. He began his systematic work in psychology at the age of 28, and within a few years formulated his theory of the development of specifically human higher mental functions. He died of tuberculosis ten years later, and Thought and Language was published posthumously in 1934. Alex Kozulin studied at the Moscow Institute of Medicine and the Moscow Institute of Psychology, where he began his investigation of Vygotsky and the history of Soviet psychology. He emigrated in 1979 and is now Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Psychology) at Boston University. He is the author of Psychology in Utopia: Toward a Social History of Soviet Psychology (MIT Press 1984).
Summary: My opinion
Rating: 5
Vygotsky and Piaget are the forerunners in today's educational thinking. Even though they lived a long time ago they are still focused on in educational thinking. Piaget and Stern theories about language and development are included. The book is all emcompassing with language development and thinking . If you need to know about language development this is the book you should be reading.
Summary: Change your life
Rating: 5
Being a trainer and an academic co-ordinator, I find that Vygostky is an essential reader for all trainers / teachers. He helps you understand how to teach better, how to use peer learning and when used with experiential learning gives the best results.
Summary: Fantastic
Rating: 5
The only thing I can say about this book and the author is that this man was a genius! Worth every second spent reading it!
Summary: A landmark...
Rating: 5
Vygotsky, who was a contemporary of Piaget, unfortunately never received nearly as much attention while still alive. Probably due to the fact that he was working in Russia and had a relatively short career his work seems to have taken a very long time to even get published for 'western' consumption. His theories also go against the grain of the dogma currently in vogue in psychology.
This book gives a brief overview of Vygotsky's life and career. Then it launches into Vygotsky's original manuscript which begins with a critique of some of the central themes of that time; oddly enough those themes are still being pursued by psychologists today. Vygotsky's critique is very interesting and demonstrates a very broad range of understanding of psychological, physical and philosophical knowledge throughout the section.
The second part of the book then advances Vygotsky's theories of thought and language development. And that is the crux of Vygotsky's theory: thought and language each develop in a manner that one might characterize as partially self-catalyzing in addition to behaving as one. Vygotsky also advanced some important ideas about child potential with his "zone of proximal development".
Vygotsky pointed out that development hinges on the social structure surrounding the child and is not similar to the idea of some computer operating system simply requiring some type of "load" instruction. That is, Vygotsky's work seems to dispel some of the hot air surrounding Chomsky's ideas about "deep grammar" structures existing and just waiting for the instructions to start working; instead thought and language develop, sometimes separately and sometimes requiring each other to act as catalysts.
Given recent advances in primate language studies, complex adaptive systems and Wittgenstein's contributions to the philosophy of systems I believe Vygotsky's work becomes all the more important and relevant. We are only just starting to grasp the importance of thinking about development in a systems mode as opposed to the old way of reductionism (and the weird dogmatic offshoot of this: strict materialism).
This is a must-read for anyone interested in learning about how we develop. Other interesting ideas and overviews can be found in Bogdan's "Minding Minds" and Faber's "Objectivity and Human Perception". Then there is the burgeoning field of complexity where a good general overview can be found in "Signs of Life". And for those who really want to get deeper, read some of the recent work done in EEG and meditation to help kids with ADD and other problems.
Summary: The behavior of cognition
Rating: 5
A contemporary of Piaget (developmental psychology)and Watson (behaviorism), Vygotsky launches a cogent critique and synthesis of these two scientific schools. His asserting that learning leads development is as fresh and valuable today as it was when he first wrote the text. Secondly, his calling for a functional analysis of language has been pursued only by the behavioral schools; a short-fall of cognitive and developmental psychology which focuses on the structure of language and hypothetical constructs of brain functioning. Vygotsky relied on observable behavior under contrived and natural conditions in developing his model of socially mediated learning. Although he does a bit of theorizing, his view of learning speech and thought--a skill taught and mediated by social forces--is an excellent bridge between the two schools of thought mentioned above. This book should be required reading for developmental psychologists, educators and behaviorists alike.
Longman Photo Dictionary of American English
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Rationality and the Literate Mind (Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory)
By Roy Harris
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:190
* Publication Date:2009-01-09
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415999014
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415999014
Product Description:
In this volume, Harris challenges the received mainstream opinion that reason is an intrinsic property of the human mind, and argues that the whole Western conception of rational thought, from Classical Greece down to modern symbolic logic, is a by-product of the way literacy developed in European cultures.
A Course In Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar GPSG (The Centre for Computational Linquistics Book Ser.)
By Paul Bennett
* Publisher:CRC
* Number Of Pages:227
* Publication Date:1995-06-29
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1857282175
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781857282177
Product Description:
The Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar GPSG is a major syntactic theory which has been adopted by the computational linguistics world. This text assumes an introductory knowledge of syntactic theory and covers all the main constructs of the grammar.
Straight and Curvy, Meek and Nervy: More About Antonyms (Words Are Categorical)
By Brian P. Cleary
* Publisher:Millbrook Press
* Number Of Pages:32
* Publication Date:2009-03
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0822578786
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780822578789
Product Description:
What Is an Antonym? One book is never enough to explore the wide range of antonyms! The zany (not ordinary) cats deliver loads of additional examples to illustrate the power of these opposites. Brian P. Cleary's playful (not dull) verse and Brian Gable's comical (not serious) cats turn traditional grammar lessons on end. Each pair of antonyms is printed in color for easy (not difficult) identification. Read this book aloud and share the delight of the sense--and nonsense--of words.
Summary: This book is an easy way to help your reluctant child or student understand a simple English language concept!
Rating: 5
If you have a youngster who is having trouble understanding simple English language concepts or, in some cases, simply is resistant to learning them, a visually oriented book may just make it easier and fun to learn! The colorful, lively illustrations in this book will draw their attention to antonyms quickly and painlessly.
"Antonyms are words that are quiet opposite in meaning, like sleep and wake or give and take-like messing is to cleaning." On the two-page spread with this sentence we see bunkbeds in which one cat is sound asleep, the other wide awake, while yet another cat enters the room with a vacuum to clean up the messy room. After several pages of simple antonym examples, the slightly more complicated addition of prefixes such as un, non, im, dis, and mis are illustrated and explained. Next the author introduces the prefixes anti, il, ir and in.
Antonyms "offer rich contrasting words that help us to distinguish day from night and wrong from right-and brighten up our English!" This book is a bright, rhythmical way to encourage the reluctant student to not only grasp a concept, but to actually enjoy learning. This book would be a welcome addition to any classroom or homeschool shelf.
Summary: Appealing Antonyms
Rating: 5
Children will grab this attractive book up and learn in the process. From its colorful cat illustrated cover to its thought inducing end, the book is filled with delightfully demonstrated antonyms - including antonyms formed by prefixes.
The illogical (see, I learned something) change from metered verse to unmetered (there I go again) verse slightly irritated me, but not enough to detract from a 5-star rating.
Wh-movement and the Theory of Feature-checking
By Andrew Simpson
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:249
* Publication Date:2000-03
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027225621
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027225627
Modern English linguistics: A structural and transformational grammar
By John P Broderick
* Publisher:Crowell
* Number Of Pages:260
* Publication Date:1975
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0690000677
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780690000672
Modern English Linguistics showed how transformational grammar developed out of American structuralist morphology and syntax. It then then went on to describe English grammar in some detail using the so-called "extended standard theory" of transformational grammar described in Noam Chomsky's book, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Despite considerable changes in Chomsky's ideas in the 1980s and 1990s (as for example, government and binding theory), linguistics textbooks continued to be published well into the 1990s that were still based on the Aspects model.
The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)
By Glyn Hicks
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
* Number Of Pages:309
* Publication Date:2009-06-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027255229
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027255228
The Language of Outsourced Call Centers: A corpus-based study of cross-cultural interaction (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
By Eric Friginal
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
* Number Of Pages:319
* Publication Date:2009-02-25
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027223084
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027223081
Rancheros in Chicagoacán: Language and Identity in a Transnational Community
By Marcia Farr
* Publisher:University of Texas Press
* Number Of Pages:342
* Publication Date:2006-12-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0292714831
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780292714830
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Rancheros hold a distinct place in the culture and social hierarchy of Mexico, falling between the indigenous (Indian) rural Mexicans and the more educated city-dwelling Mexicans. In addition to making up an estimated twenty percent of the population of Mexico, rancheros may comprise the majority of Mexican immigrants to the United States. Although often mestizo (mixed race), rancheros generally identify as non-indigenous, and many identify primarily with the Spanish side of their heritage. They are active seekers of opportunity, and hence very mobile. Rancheros emphasize progress and a self-assertive individualism that contrasts starkly with the common portrayal of rural Mexicans as communal and publicly deferential to social superiors.
Marcia Farr studied, over the course of fifteen years, a transnational community of Mexican ranchero families living both in Chicago and in their village-of-origin in Michoacán, Mexico. For this ethnolinguistic portrait, she focuses on three culturally salient styles of speaking that characterize rancheros: franqueza (candid, frank speech); respeto (respectful speech); and relajo (humorous, disruptive language that allows artful verbal critique of the social order maintained through respeto). She studies the construction of local identity through a community's daily talk, and provides the first book-length examination of language and identity in transnational Mexicans.
In addition, Farr includes information on the history of rancheros in Mexico, available for the first time in English, as well as an analysis of the racial discourse of rancheros within the context of the history of race and ethnicity in Mexico and the United States. This work provides groundbreaking insight into the lives of rancheros, particularly as seen from their own perspectives.
Summary: the verbal franqueza style of Ranchero Mexican culture
Rating: 5
This scholarly work is an exceptional contribution to the fields of language and identity. Farr presents a very well researched ethnographic study on a major subgroup of Mexican transnationals, the Rancheros. These people are crucial in the creation of Mexican norte駉 culture, which allows for the first time to an English-reading audience an important pair of contrasts, to the Mexican elite of the metropolis and to the indian campesino of southern Mexico.
With fifteen years of cross-generational, cross-gender, and cross-border interaction, extensive and insightful reading of the key scholarships across disciplines, and exacting attention to the speech of her informants, Farr describes on-going on the fly cultural framing that Ranchero speech patterns, discourse patterns, and meta-discourse patterns create and reinforce. I knew from previous reading that Farr's work was insightful, but the depth of her thinking on Mexican discourse overwhelmed me. I could not read this book in a cursory manner; her descriptive insight into the language that I research (and in which I was raised; home culture) had me reaching for a note pad at every page. Before I finished the fifth chapter, I had filled twenty sheets in my cramped handwriting.
Farr's main argument is that the distinctive Ranchero culture is articulated by way of a distinctive discourse style, estilo franqueza. This culture is based on a liberal individualistic ideology that distinguishes it from sure駉 and metropolitano groups of Mexicans, as well as distinguishing it from Mexican indigenous and mestizo ways of life. Mexicans are often viewed homogeneously as sustaining a communal and anti-capitalist ideology, in contrast to (an also homogeneous) Anglo-American individualism and capitalist ideology. Farr describes Rancheros holding both a familial yet individualistic ideology. This is of course nothing new to Mexicanists, but Farr's contribution is to link the Ranchero discourse "verbal style," franqueza, to this ideology. And it is written for an English-reading audience. Moreover, Farr makes clear that franqueza is articulated by way of a "grammar of self-assertion" that is non-deferential; that it both allows for egalitarian stances among equals, and it establishes and affirms a patriarchal social order across the Ranchero community. Farr does this by describing the linguistic and discourse components of the grammar of self-assertion, and with fine examples, which are analyzed with clarity and aplomb! Franqueza, the "primary framework" in which Rancheros speak their society into existence, has two special frames, relajo and respeto. As Farr notes, these three discourses have been discussed (in different terms) by Latin Americanists for a time (e.g. Lauria 1964), but the strength of Farr's work is her emphasis on how the distinctive parts of Ranchero culture are expressed with the three: franqueza (individualism, progress, contrast with humilidad or ornateness, work without subservience, constructing Other Mexicans, and gender); respeto (individualism with familialism, social orderings, reciprocity); and relajo (stepping out of the everyday, to showcase talent and personal transformation, to comment on the everyday, and to enact gender).
This in itself would be quite a book, but the transnational character of Chicago Rancheros should make this manuscript invaluable to U.S.-oriented scholars. Farr provides Mexicanists and Chicano studies scholars of many disciplinary stripes with a great deal to think about. Much of what she points to regarding Ranchero culture can be extended with utility to norte駉 and Chicano or Mexican-American culture. This book should be read far beyond linguistic anthropology--across the social science spectrum (particularly by rhetoricians, political scientists, folklorists, gender scholars, public education scholars) as well as by scholars of various forms of cultural studies and history.
Farr avoids jargon and strives for clarity that too often escapes anthropologists enamored by social theory. This is an authoritative work, the capstone of fifteen years of ethnography and of scholarship that draws from much previously unintegrated thinking. This book will be worked over, aggressively critiqued, and cited intensely for the next fifteen years!
The Neurobiology of Affect in Language Learning (Language Learning Monograph)
By John H. Schumann
* Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell
* Number Of Pages:350
* Publication Date:1999-06-25
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0631210105
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780631210108
Product Description:
This book presents a theory of how the psychology and neurobiology of stimulus appraisal influences the variability in second language acquisition. It then extends the notion of affect developed for second language acquisition to primary language acquisition and to cognition in general. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, this book is an important research tool for students and professors of language studies and linguistics.
Summary: Enlightening Work!
Rating: 5
Schumann's book is an illuminating work on second language acquisition. SLA is an area that has not received as much research as First Language Acquisition. Therefore, this work is important in that it brings to light the importance stimulus appraisal has on a person's ability to have sustained deep learning. Schumann does a work of a linguist, neurobiologist, and researcher in this book and provides a thorough read with scientific fact and a well written thesis. The book should be read by all with an interest in the mind and language.