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Conference Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (2005)

Title Educating for advanced foreign language capacities : constructs, curriculum, instruction, assessment / Heidi Byrnes, Heather Weger-Guntharp, and Katherine A. Sprang, editors.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Georgetown University Round Table on languages and linguistics series
Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)
Note "This volume comprises a small subset of the presentations that made up the 2005 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT)"--Preface.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Locating the advanced learner in theory, research and educational practice : an introduction / Heidi Byrnes -- Conceptual basis of grammatical structure / Ronald W. Langacker -- Impact of grammatical temporal categories on ultimate attainment in L2 learning / Christiane von Stutterheim and Mary Carroll -- Reorganizing principles of information structure in advanced L2s : French and German learners of English / Mary Carroll and Monique Lambert -- Language-based processing in advanced L2 production and translation : an exploratory study / Bergljot Behrens -- Learning and teaching grammar through patterns of conceptualization : the case of (advanced) Korean / Susan Strauss -- Narrative competence in a second language / Ameta Pavlenko -- Lexical inferencing in L1 and L2 : implications for vocabulary instruction and learning at advanced levels / Sima Paribakht and Marjorie Wesche -- From sports to the EU economy : integrating curricula through genre-based content courses / Susanne Rinner and Astrid Weigert -- Hedging and boosting in advanced-level L2 legal writing : the effect of instruction and feedback / Rebekha Abbuhl -- Assessing advanced foreign language learning and learners : from measurement constructs to educational uses / John M. Norris -- Rethinking assessment for advanced language proficiency / Elana Shohamy.
Summary Advanced language learning has only recently begun to capture the interest and attention of applied linguists and professionals in language education in the United States. In this breakthrough volume, experts in the field lay the groundwork for approaching the increasingly important role of advanced language learning in the larger context of multilingual societies, globalization, and security. This volume presents both general and theoretical insights and language-specific considerations in college classrooms spanning a range of languages, from the commonly taught languages of English, French, and German to the less commonly taught Farsi, Korean, Norwegian, and Russian. Among theoretical frameworks likely to be conducive to imagining and fostering instructed "advancedness" in a second language, this volume highlights a cognitive-semantic approach. The theoretical and data-based findings make clear that advanced learners in particular are characterized by the capacity to make situated choices from across the entire language system, from vocabulary and grammar to discourse features, which suggests the need for a text-oriented, meaning-driven approach to language teaching, learning, and research. This volume also considers whether and how information structuring in second-language composition reveals first-language preferences of grammaticized concepts. Other topics include curricular and instructional approaches to narrativity, vocabulary expansion, the demands on instructed programs for efficiency and effectiveness in order to assure advanced levels, and learners' ability to function in professional contexts with their diverse oral and written genre requirements. Finally, the volume probes the role and nature of assessment as a measurement tool for both researching and assessing advanced language learning and as an essential component of improving programs.
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Subject Language and languages -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Congresses.
Language and languages -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Language and languages.
Linguistics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Congresses.
Linguistics -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Linguistics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Byrnes, Heidi.
Weger-Guntharp, Heather.
Sprang, Katherine A.
Other Form: Print version: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (2005). Educating for advanced foreign language capacities. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2006003221
ISBN 9781435627192 (electronic book)
1435627199 (electronic book)
158901118X
9781589011182
158901118X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9781589011182