Language Learning, Discourse and Communication: Studies in Honour of Jan Majer (Second Language Learning and Teaching)

Hardcover, xv + 272 pages, NOT ex-library. Book looks unread, clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show minor handling wear. Published without a dust jacket. -- This volume brings together papers on a wide spectrum of topics within the broad area of language acquisition, stressing the interconnections between applied and theoretical linguistics, as well as language research methodology. These contributions in honor of Professor Jan Majer have been grouped in two sections: language learning, and discourse and communication. The former discusses issues varying from aspects of first, second, and third language acquisition, individual learner differences (i.e. gender, attitudes, learning strategies), and second language research methodology to the analysis of features of learner spoken language, the role of feedback in foreign language instruction, and the position of culture in EFL textbooks. The second part of the volume offers a theoretical counterbalance to the applied nature of the first one. Here, the contributions touch upon spoken and written language analysis, language awareness, and aspects of the English language; also, selected issues of language philosophy are discussed. The wide range of topics covered in the publication, authored by specialists in their respective areas, reflects Professor Majer's academic interests and corresponds to the complex nature of the general field the volume aims to portray. -- Contents: Part I Language Learning - Role of Written Corrective Feedback in Promoting Language Development: An Overview / Miroslaw Pawlak; Using Model Essays to Create Good Writers / Donald Sargeant; Demystifying Academic Writing / Lukasz Salski; Core Concerns: Cultural Representation in English Language Teaching (ELT) Coursebooks / Nicolas Robert Hurst; Takes Two to Tango: Research into Accent, Comprehensibility, Intelligibility and the Implications for CLIL / Alice Henderson; Analysing Spoken Language for Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency: Some Methodological Considerations / Irena Czwenar; On Applying Simultaneous Introspection in Researching Language Acquisition / Danuta Gabrys-Barker; On the Role of Pre-service Language Teachers' Beliefs on Multilingual Education in Developing Teacher Training Programs / Weronika Szubko-Sitarek; Gender-Related Distribution of Direct Learning Strategies as a Determining Factor in Successful Second Language Acquisition / Anna Michonska-Stadnik; Role of Mindsets in Foreign Language Learning: A Person-in-context Perspective / Anna Mystkowska; Some Remarks on the Late Acquisitions: The Reformulation of Relative Clauses by Polish Children in Polish L1 / Urszula Paprocka-Piotrowska; -- Part II Discourse and Communication - Selected Observations on the Effect of Rhythm on Proficiency, Accuracy and Fluency in Non-native English Speech / Ewa Waniek-Klimczak; Evaluating Conference Abstracts in Applied Linguistics and L2 Learning and Teaching / Anna Nizegorodcew; Phonological Short-Term Memory and the Operation of Cross-Linguistic Factors in Elementary and Pre-Intermediate Adult L2 Learners' Collocational Usage / Agnieszka Skrzypek & David Singleton; Emotional Awareness and the Noticing Hypothesis / Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk; Philosophical and Communicative Turns in the Study of Language / Piotr Stalmaszczyk & Wieslaw Oleksy; Third Way of Cognitive Science and the Middle Way of Buddhism / Jan Zalewski; Antonymous Nature of Even and Only / Aleksander Szwedek.…