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Korean for professionals volume 4

The Korean Language Flagship Center trains participants to take their place among the next generation of global professionals...

Cultura-inspired intercultural exchanges: Focus on Asian and Pacific ...

Although many online intercultural exchanges have been conducted based on the groundbreaking Cultura model, most to date have been between and among European...

Developing, using, and analyzing rubrics in language assessment ...

Rubrics are essential tools for all language teachers in this age of communicative and task-based teaching and assessment—tools that allow us to efficiently...

Guidelines for submissions to the NFLRC Monographs & ...

We invite submissions of materials for publication as NFLRC Monographs. Monographs discuss ongoing curriculum projects, report on the results of research...

Korean for professionals volume 3

The Korean Language Flagship Center trains participants to take their place among the next generation of global professionals...

Student learning outcomes assessment in college foreign language ...

NFLRC's NEWEST : Changes in accreditation policies and institutional practices leads to the emergence of student learning outcomes assessment as an important

Korean for professionals volume 2

The Korean Language Flagship Center trains participants to take their place among the next generation of global professionals...

Korean for professionals volume 1

The Korean Language Flagship Center trains participants to take their place among the next generation of global professionals...

Noticing and second language acquisition: Studies in honor ...

Celebrates the life and groundbreaking work of Richard Schmidt, the developer of the influential Noticing Hypothesis in the field of second language acquisi...

Practical assessment tools for college Japanese

Each module presents a practical assessment idea that can be adopted or adapted for the reader’s own formative or summative assessment of their Japanese...

New perspectives on Japanese language learning, linguistics, and ...

Covers several important topics on teaching and learning spoken and written Japanese and culture in and beyond classroom settings, but also includes research...

Manchu: A textbook for reading documents (second edition)

“...a welcome event in the field of Manchu studies.” --Journal of the American Oriental Society 130.4 (2010)View the table ...

Research among learners of Chinese as a foreign ...

Cutting-edge in its approach and international in its authorship, this fourth monograph in a series sponsored by the Chinese Language Teachers Association...

Second language teaching and learning in the Net ...

Today’s young people—the Net Generation—have grown up with technology all around them. However, teachers cannot assume that students’ familiarity with tech...

Toward useful program evaluation in college foreign language ...

Innovative, useful evaluation work conducted within U.S. college foreign language programs. An introductory chapter scopes out the territory, reporting key...

Chinese as a heritage language: Fostering rooted world ...

Thirty-two scholars examine the socio-cultural, cognitive-linguistic, and educational-institutional trajectories along which Chinese as a Heritage Language...

Case studies in foreign language placement: Practices and ...

Although most language programs make placement decisions on the basis of placement tests, there is surprisingly little published about di...

Perspectives on teaching connected speech to second language ...

This edited collection of fourteen articles examines connected speech is of interest to teachers, researchers, and materials developers in both ESL/EFL...

Corpus linguistics for Korean language learning and teaching

Dramatic advances in personal-computer technology have given language teachers access to vast quantities of machine-readable text, which ...

New technologies and language learning: Cases in the ...

Seven chapters describe how different types of technologies (e.g., Web, ITV, and audio- or video-based materials) are used to support language programs...

An investigation of second language task-based performance assessments

volume describes the creation of actual performance assessment instruments and their validation. After briefly reviewing the background to the project...

Motivation and second language acquisition

A wide range of theoretical and research methodological issues and also offer empirical results (both qualitative and quantitative) concerning the learning...

A focus on language test development: Expanding the ...

This volume presents eight research studies which introduce a variety of novel, non-traditional forms of second and foreign language assessment. To the extent..

A communicative framework for introductory Japanese language curricula

In recent years the number of schools offering Japanese nationwide has increased dramatically. Because of the tremendous popularity of Ja...

Studies on Korean in community schools

The papers in this volume focus on language teaching and learning in Korean community schools. Drawing on innovative experimental work an...

Foreign language teaching & language minority education

This volume seeks to examine the potential for building relationships among foreign language, bilingual, and ESL programs towards fosteri...

Second language development in writing: Measures of fluency, ...

In this book, the authors analyze and compare the ways that fluency, accuracy, grammatical complexity, and lexical complexity have been m...

The development of a lexical tone phonology in ...

The study reported is based on an assessment of three decades of research on the SLA of Mandarin tone. It investigates whether difference...

Designing second language performance assessments

This technical report focuses on the decision-making potential provided by second language performanc...

New trends and issues in teaching Japanese language ...

In recent years, Japanese has become the fourth most commonly taught foreign language at the college level in the United States. As the n...

Attention and awareness in foreign language learning

Issues related to the role of attention and awareness in learning lie at the heart of many theoretical and practical controversies in the...

Telecollaboration in foreign language learning: Proceedings of the ...

A sampling of presentations on electronic networking for foreign language teaching and research, including electronic discussion and conferencing, internatio...

Six measures of JSL pragmatics

This book investigates differences among tests that can be used to measure the cross-cultural pragmatic ability of English speaking learn...

Linguistics and language teaching: Proceedings of the sixth ...

This volume contains 18 articles revolving around linguistic issues, sociolinguistics, and language teaching and learning.

Language learning strategies around the world: Cross-cultural perspectives

Language learning strategies are the specific steps students take to improve their progress in learning a second or foreign language. Opt...

Language learning motivation: Pathways to the new century

This volume chronicles a revolution in our thinking about what makes students want to learn languages and what causes them to persist in ...

Virtual connections: Online activities and projects for networking ...

Computer networking has created dramatic new possibilities for connecting language learners in a single classroom or across the globe. Th...

Pragmatics of Chinese as native and target language

This technical report includes six contributions to the study of the pragmatics of Mandarin Chinese:*A report of an interview study cond...

Developing prototypic measures of cross-cultural pragmatics

Although the study of cross-cultural pragmatics has gained importance in applied linguistics, there are no standard forms of assessment t...

The role of phonological coding in reading Kanji: ...

Results and pedagogical implications of a study which she conducted on phonological coding in reading kanji using an eye-movement monitor. In addition...

A bibliography of pedagogy and research in interpretation ...

This volume includes four types of bibliographic information on translation and interpretation studies: Research efforts across discipl...

Pragmatics of Japanese as native and target language

This technical report includes three contributions to the study of the pragmatics of Japanese: A bibliography on speech act performance...

A framework for testing cross-cultural pragmatics

This volume presents a framework for developing methods which assess cross-cultural pragmatic ability. Although the framework has been de...

Research methods in interlanguage pragmatics

DISCONTINUED: for info contact mastersn@hawaii.edu This technical report reviews the methods of data collection employed in 39 studies o...

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