Perspectives on Foreign and Second Language Pedagogy: Essays Presented to Kirsten Haastrup on the Occasion of Her Sixtieth BirthdayDorte Albrechtsen This festschrift honoring a Danish linguist central to the field of foreign language pedagogy in her country is arranged in four sections that reflect her interests: research methods and perspectives, vocabulary acquisition research, pedagogical issues, and language policy. A more specific sampling of topics: differences in first and second language comprehension with regard to inferring word meaning; the role of semantic and pragmatic function in second language acquisition; learners' word acquisition attempts in conversation; contrasting patterns in classroom lexical environments; and linguistic human rights and English in Europe. Contains no index. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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