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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-16 - Publisher: Georgetown University Press

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When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism, a cadre of
Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-16 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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This edited volume brings together perspectives that find mutual kinship in a view of language as an embodied, semiotic, symbolic tool used for communicative an
The Multilingual Turn
Language: en
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Drawing on the latest developments in bilingual and multilingual research, The Multilingual Turn offers a critique of, and alternative to, still-dominant monoli
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Authors: Lourdes Ortega
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Usage-based linguistics, which is currently very popular, bases its understanding of language on two key points: Languages are cognitive-social constructs (i.e.
Usage-Based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Language Teaching
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Although usage-based approaches have been successfully applied to the study of both first and second language acquisition, to monolingual and bilingual developm