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NOW ON DVD! Chinese
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fifty video segments from footage shot on location in and
around Beijing, such as an interview with a girl about her
favorite toys, self-introductions by college students, and
off-the-cuff introduction to taxis and buses. Filmed on location
in Beijing, mostly at Peking University, these naturalistic
video clips, ranging from less than one minute to eight minutes
in length and consisting chiefly of unrehearsed interviews
of ordinary folk, offer valuable source material for Chinese
language teachers at all levels. Six topic areas are represented.
These are personal information, commercial transactions, travel
and leisure, health and sports, food, and school. |
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Perspectives on teaching connected speech to second language speakers |
| This book is a collection of fourteen articles on connected speech of interest to teachers, researchers, and materials developers in both ESL/EFL (ten chapters focus on connected speech in English) and Japanese (four chapters focus on Japanese connected speech). The fourteen chapters are divided up into five sections:
- What do we know so far about teaching connected speech?
- Does connected speech instruction work?
- How should connected speech be taught in English?
- How should connected speech be taught in Japanese?
- How should connected speech be tested?
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Pragmatics &
Language Learning 11 |
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volume features cutting-edge research on L2 pragmatics from
a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. It
offers fresh perspectives on standard topics such as the use
and learning of speech acts and the pragmatic meanings of linguistic
resources, and the effect of planned intervention on pragmatic
development in language instruction. The chapters also document
researchers' increasing attention to different forms of computer-mediated
communication as environments for using and developing L2 pragmatic
competence and of conversation analysis as an approach to different
aspects of interaction in a variety of settings. |
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Foreign
Language Program Evaluation: An Annotated Bibliography |
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section of the FL Program Evaluation Project website lists resources
to support foreign language educators in evaluating college-level
foreign language programs. |
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