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Description: This monograph is volume I of the Pathways to Advanced Skills series, dedicated to teaching and learning less commonly taught languages.
The following topics are covered:

• Principal Consideration
• Conditions for Learning LCTLs
• Adaptations to Local Conditions
• The Impact of Collective Wisdom on Individual Practitioners

Description: Contents:
CH. 1 Toward a Communicative Model for Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language: Exploring Some New Possibilities
CH. 2 Reinventing Language Fields: The Chinese Case
CH. 3 Tonal Distinction Errors by Beginning Chinese Language Students: A Comparative Study of American English and Japanese Native Speaker
CH. 4 Exploiting Background Knowledge in the Development of Chinese Pedagogical Reading Materials
CH. 5 Acquisition of Modal Particles in Chinese Second Language Learners
CH. 6 Class Plan for Teaching Chinese as a Functional Language
CH. 7 Starting a Secondary School Chinese Program
CH. 8 Designing an Intensive Chinese Curriculum
CH. 9 Citizens of a Global Village: Information Technology and Chinese Language Instruction--A Search for Standards
CH. 10 A Review of Some Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Software for Chinese
CH. 11 Linguistically Accurate and Culturally Appropriate: The Use of Authentic Video in Chinese Language Instruction
Book Price: $20.95

Description: The guide tends to assist in the creation of new Chinese language programs. It incorporates a set of informed and explicit assumptions about learning and teaching the language that underlie the creation of a syllabus and the pedagogical practices involved in implementing it. The target readership includes Chinese language teachers and program administrators.
Book Price: $26.95

Description: Contents:
CH. 1 Language Learning Strategies of Successful Learners
CH. 2 Reading Strategies of Elementary and Advanced Learners: Effects of CALL Coding Options on Comprehension
CH. 3 Impact of the Linguistic Situation in the Target Culture on Teaching the Language Abroad: The Case of Arabic Diglossia
CH. 4 The Construct of the Educated Native Speaker of Arabic: Implications for Curriculum Design
CH. 5 Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Linkage Between Learning and Research
CH. 6 Models of Foreign Language Acquisition and the Meaning-Form Relationship
CH. 7 Curriculum Design: Theoretical Bases and Implications
CH. 8 Assessment of Functional Language Abilities
Appendix A: A Typology of Learning Strategies
Appendix B: Foreign Language Learning Strategies
Appendix C: Guidelines for Writing the Language Learning Journal
Appendix D: Selected Questions Asked in the Oral Interviews
Appendix E: A List of Colloquial Lexical Items in the Speech of Native Speakers in a Formal Situation
Appendix F: Transliteration Key
Book Price: $26.95

Description: Contents:
CH. 1 African Language Field Development
CH. 2 The State of African Language Instruction in the U.S.: An Inventory of Programs, Assets, and Resources
CH. 3 Focus on Teaching
CH. 4 Focus on the African Language Learner
CH. 5 A Goal-Based Approach to African Language Instruction
CH. 6 Toward Cultural Proficiency in African Languages
CH. 7 The Use of Audio-Visual and Emerging Technologies
CH. 8 A Twenty-First Century Vision for African Language Instruction and Learning
Book Price: $24.95

Description: Mary S. Erbaugh has compiled this volume to examine the so-called "ideographic myth" from a variety of perspectives. Through this multidisciplinary collection of articles, we learn how the myth has come about, what sort of theory and empirical evidence have been generated to refute it, and how this myth has stubbornly persisted to hamper progress in a number of scholarly areas. But perhaps most importantly, this volume presents in a detailed manner how different academic disciplines go about analyzing historical and empirical data in order to arrive at new knowledge.
Book Price: $26.95

Description: Essays designed to support informed classroom and curricular decisions. Dispels some of the misunderstandings about Japanese language instruction and introduces the intellectual inquires we are making in the field.

Contents:
Ch.1 Development of Kanji Knowledge Among Adult JFL Learners.
Ch.2 Subvocalization in Reading Kanji: Can Japanese Text Be Comprehended Without It?
Ch.3 Developmental Sequences.
Ch.4 Japanese Second Language Acquisition in the Classroom.
Ch.5 Reading as Socio-Cultural Performance.
Ch.6 Can a Computer Tutor Detect Problems with Linked Sentences?
Ch.7 The Logic of Japanese Language Practice.
Ch.8 Automaticity and Its Implications for JFL Pedagogy.
Ch.9 Japanese for Special Purposes: Teaching Japanese to Engineers and Scientists.
Ch.10 Pedagogic Implications of Standards-based Education.
Ch.11 The First Framework: Getting Down to Basics.
Book Price: $26.95

Description: This bilingual text by Zhou Youguang (in Chinese) with English translation by Zhang Liqing makes it easier for English speakers to gain advanced level skills in East Asian languages. It also exposes learners at or above intermediate skill levels to the vocabulary and discourses of academic disciplines and provides entries into discussions with oral and written presentations in these concentrations.

This concise treatment of a field is done by an excellent scholar with outstanding English translation. This book offers an overview of a particular situation regarding the development and problems concerning Chinese languages and scripts.

John DeFrancis recommends in the Foreword to this text: "This fact-filled but by no means dry compendium, the contents of which are easily accessible thanks to a good, detailed index, deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the languages and scripts of China." This is an ideal book for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses dealing with Chinese languages and scripts.
Book Price: $26.95

Description: This book examines the "celebratory," ritualistic and pragmatic functions that Shandong yanxi, or banquets, serve in games of gaining social status in the contemporary Shandong social milieu. Yanxi are a highly ritualized form of performance in which enormous amounts of social capital, and energy are invested. Shandong yanxi are conducted to celebrate such important social occasions as weddings and engagements; festivals; birthdays; sending a friend or relative off on a journey, and welcoming a traveler home from a journey. Although highly festive in nature, these performances play a more serious and pragmatic role in Shandong society as a field of play for the game of gaining social status.
Book Price: $24.95

Description: This volume is designed as a practical handbook that provides guidelines for teams of evaluators investigating a department or language program or individual teachers or language program directors seeking to better understand the content and context of their programs or courses. Although the volume focuses on postsecondary foreign language programs, readers who teach at the secondary levels will be able to easily adapt the guidelines and procedures to their own contexts.
Book Price: $13.95

Description: This book is a general introduction to the performed culture approach, which trains students how to express themselves in a way that native speakers of the target culture feel appropriate in given situations. Target readership includes Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language teachers and graduate students.
Book Price: $26.95