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Cummins, Jim – Multilingual Matters, 2021
Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Linguistic Theory, Language Fluency
Geller, Linda Gibson – 1985
The connections among language learning, language education, and children's wordplay are explored in this book. Each chapter examines some aspect of the interrelations between wordplay activities and the goals of language education. The book is divided into three sections, with the first section exploring wordplay and language learning in the…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Humor
Cook, Vivian, Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers treats second language users in their own right rather than as failed native speakers, reflecting a new shift within the field of second language acquisition research. The 13 papers are: (1) "Background to the L2 User" (Vivian Cook); (2) "Lexical Representation and Lexical Processing in the L2 User"…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Fluency