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Free Download Talking to APIs: The Language of Connectivity (T2IT Book 9)
by Rogério Figurelli
English | December 15, 2024 | ASIN: B0DQK5Z66Q | 190 pages | PDF | 82 Mb

Free Download Pier M. Larson, "Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0521739578 | PDF | pages: 402 | 19.9 mb
Ocean of Letters is a remarkable history of imperialism, language, and creolization in the largest African diaspora of the Indian Ocean in the early modern period. Ranging from Madagascar to the Mascarenes, the Comores, and South Africa, Pier M. Larson sheds new light on the roles of slavery, emancipation, oceanic travel, Christian missions, and colonial linguistics in the making of Malagasy-language literacy in the islands of the western Indian Ocean. He shows how enslaved and free Malagasy together with certain European colonists and missionaries promoted the Malagasy language, literacy projects and letter writing in the multilingual colonial societies of the region between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Addressing current debates in the history of Africa and the African diaspora, slavery, abolition, creolization and the making of modern African literatures, the book crosses thematic as well as geo-imperial boundaries and brings fresh perspectives to Indian Ocean history.

Free Download Jeni Riley, "Language and Literacy 3-7: Creative Approaches to Teaching"
English | 2006 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 141291986X | PDF | 7,6 mb
This practical guide considers the research evidence that is needed to inform enlightened practice, and offers concrete suggestions and teaching approaches for early years settings and classrooms. This comprehensive book shows the ′what,′ the ′how,′ and the ′why′ of innovative, creative practice for teaching language and literacy. The author clearly examines how young children learn to use both spoken and written language, and shows how to assess, plan and teach for the effective learning of speaking, listening, reading and writing. Each chapter includes case studies, learning and teaching suggestions, and further reading.

Free Download Language Policy in Action
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1009385119 | 215 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Language is part of social life, and efforts to control it can be viewed in light of broader struggles for social power around issues like migration, education, class and race. This book explores how people act within institutions and communities to try and control the language of others. It conceptualises language policy as a form of discourse management, involving attempts to reorder hierarchies of knowledge, reframe social relationships, control what identities and ideologies may be expressed, and limit who can access particular social spaces. Real-life case studies are included, allowing readers to understand the functioning of language policy in different contexts. A holistic framework is also introduced, showing how language policies are enacted though five key actions: creating, debating, interpreting, enforcing and resisting. Each action is explained with reference to current theories in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, and methodological suggestions, discussion questions and examples of further reading are also provided.

Free Download Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales by Sin Wang Chong, Hayo Reinders
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 346 Pages | ISBN : 3031662407 | 20.2 MB

Free Download Kata Csizér, "Motivation, Autonomy and Emotions in Foreign Language Learning: A Multi-Perspective Investigation in Hungary "
English | ISBN: 1800412746 | 2024 | 174 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book highlights the roles of several individual difference (ID) variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students’ and the teachers’ perspectives. It presents the results of a large-scale, mixed-methods investigation which was conducted with secondary school pupils and their teachers in Hungary. The quantitative questionnaire data is used to analyze the English language learners’ motivation, autonomy and self-efficacy beliefs, and to examine the relationships between these and a wide range of positive and negative emotions. The qualitative data, consisting of interviews with teachers, gives voice not only to an understanding of student-related ID variables but also to teachers’ reflections on their own cognitive, affective and behavioral processes. Taken together, the contrastive analysis of these two datasets yields interactional results that provide fresh insights into the language learning process and practical classroom applications.

Free Download Michael Silverstein, "Language in Culture"
English | ISBN: 100919884X | 2023 | 370 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 10 MB
Language enables us to represent our world, rendering salient the identities, groups, and categories that constitute social life. Michael Silverstein (1945-2020) was at the forefront of the study of language in culture, and this book unifies a lifetime of his conceptual innovations in a set of seminal lectures. Focusing not just on what people say but how we say it, Silverstein shows how discourse unfolds in interaction. At the same time, he reveals that discourse far exceeds discrete events, stabilizing and transforming societies, politics, and markets through chains of activity. Presenting his magisterial theoretical vision in engaging prose, Silverstein unpacks technical terms through myriad examples – from brilliant readings of Marcel Marceau’s pantomime, the class-laced banter of graduate students, and the poetics/politics of wine-tasting, to Fijian gossip and US courtroom talk. He draws on forebears in linguistics and anthropology while offering his distinctive semiotic approach, redefining how we think about language and culture.

Free Download Dr. Lies Sercu, "Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence"
English | 2005 | pages: 231 | ISBN: 1853598445 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Communication: An International Investigation reports on a study that focused on teachers’ beliefs regarding intercultural competence teaching in foreign language education. Its conclusions are based on data collected in a quantitative comparative study that comprises questionnaire answers received from teachers in seven countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Poland, Mexico, Greece, Spain and Sweden. It not only creates new knowledge on the variability, and relative consistency, of today’s foreign language teachers’ views regarding intercultural competence teaching in a number of countries, but also gives us a picture that is both more concrete and more comprehensive than previously known.

Free Download Talking to Python: The Language of Versatility (The T2IT Series)
by Rogério Figurelli
English | December 9, 2024 | ASIN: B0DQ1W5NMH | 142 pages | PDF | 62 Mb

Free Download Software Language Engineering: 5th International Conference, SLE 2012, Dresden, Germany, September 26-28, 2012, Revised Selected Papers By Margaret-Anne Storey (auth.), Krzysztof Czarnecki, Görel Hedin (eds.)
2013 | 413 Pages | ISBN: 3642360882 | PDF | 8 MB
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Language Engineering, SLE 2012, held in Dresden, Germany, in September 2012. The 17 papers presented together with 2 tool demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. SLE’s foremost mission is to encourage and organize communication between communities that have traditionally looked at software languages from different, more specialized, and yet complementary perspectives. SLE emphasizes the fundamental notion of languages as opposed to any realization in specific technical spaces.