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Second Language Acquisition eBook Series

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  • Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning

    Series Book 81 - Second Language Acquisition
    This landmark volume offers a collection of conceptual papers and empirical research studies that investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The contributors include some of the most well-established scholars from three continents, all addressing the question of how we can understand motivation if we perceive it as continuously changing and ... Read more

    S$ 32.80 SGD

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  • Understanding Second Language Acquisition

    Series series Understanding Language
    Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages ... Read more

    S$ 85.62 SGD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity

    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers and educators. This handbook serves both as a thorough introduction to the field of creativity and as an invaluable reference and current source of important information. It covers such diverse topics as the brain, education, business, and world cultures. The ... Read more

    S$ 91.77 SGD

  • Teaching for Understanding

    What it is and how to do it

    First published in 2012. Why does understanding really matter? Why do some learners fail to understand? At a time when league tables can be everything, examination grades matter. Perhaps more than many would admit, the cost is a lack of understanding. The new edition of Teaching for Understanding provides practical advice about how to support understanding in both children and adults. It is for ... Read more

    S$ 77.33 SGD

  • Language at the Speed of Sight

    How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It

    In this "important, alarming" (New York Times) book, see why so many American students are falling behind in their reading skills while others around the world excel.The way we teach reading is not working, and it cannot continue. We have largely abandoned phonics-based reading instruction, despite research that supports its importance for word recognition. Rather than treating Black English as a ... Read more

    S$ 19.28 SGD

  • Design Research on Learning and Thinking in Educational Settings

    Enhancing Intellectual Growth and Functioning

    Edited by David Dai ...
    Series series Educational Psychology Series
    The key question this book addresses is how to identify and create optimal conditions for the kind of learning and development that is especially important for effectively functioning in the 21st century. Taking a new approach to this long-debated issue, it looks at how a design research-based science of learning (with its practical models and related design research) can provide insights and ... Read more

    S$ 120.14 SGD

  • Teaching and Researching: Motivation

    Series series Applied Linguistics in Action
    Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success - and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand. This fully revised edition of a groundbreaking work reflects the dramatic changes the field of motivation research has undergone in recent years, including the impact of language globalisation and various dynamic and relational research methodologies, and ... Read more

    S$ 91.14 SGD

  • Linking Practice and Theory

    The Pedagogy of Realistic Teacher Education

    Although the idea of the reflective practitioner is embraced by many, there is still a need to understand how teachers' practical experience and the theoretical insights of researchers can be linked in teacher education. This book offers a framework for addressing this problem. It brings together 15 years of experience in teacher education and research, based on Korthagen's concept of "realistic ... Read more

    S$ 117.38 SGD

  • Narrative CBT

    Distinctive Features

    by John Rhodes ...
    Series series CBT Distinctive Features
    The popularity of using narrative, metaphor and building solutions in CBT has increased in recent years. Narrative CBT, part of the third wave of cognitive therapies, recognises the importance of helping to build new ideas and practices in order to create change, examining a person’s multiple and evolving narratives and their behaviour as intrinsically meaningful.In Narrative CBT, John Rhodes ... Read more

    S$ 56.61 SGD

  • School-based Research

    A Guide for Education Students

    Edited by Elaine Wilson ...
    Focused on the needs of the new classroom researcher, and those studying education on Masters-level courses, this is a thorough and thoughtful guide to the research process, covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed research methods. It guides you through research design, data collection and analysis and how to write up your research findings.This third edition has been updated to provide ... Read more

    S$ 89.04 SGD

  • Complex Dynamical Systems in Education

    Concepts, Methods and Applications

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book capitalizes on the developments in dynamical systems and education by presenting some of the most recent advances in this area in seventeen non-overlapping chapters. The first half of the book discusses the conceptual framework of complex dynamical systems and its applicability to educational processes. The second half presents a set of empirical studies thatthat illustrate the use of ... Read more

    S$ 131.77 SGD

  • Psychology for Language Learning

    Insights from Research, Theory and Practice

    Edited by S. Mercer, S. Ryan, M. Williams ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Offering a timely snapshot of current theory and research in the field of psychology in foreign language learning, this book is accessible to both specialists and non-specialists. Each chapter focuses on a different psychological construct and provides an overview of current thinking in the area drawing on insights from educational psychology. ... Read more

    S$ 80.54 SGD