January 2007 

Title:  Genre, Text, Grammar : Technologies for Teaching and Assessing Writing ^TOP Authors:     Peter Knapp and Megan Watkins Call No:  LB1576 K55  "An essential text for tertiary students of primary and secondary education, as well as an ideal reference for practising teachers in mainstream and TESOL environments, its important features include: a model of language grounded in the relationship between genre, text and grammar the 'genre as process' model of teaching and learning an examination of the genres of writing : describing, explaining, instructing, arguing and narrating. Annotations of a range of students' writing are provided to indicate structural and grammatical features.  The text also includes a diagnostic model of assessing writing, many practical ideas for classroom use and a comprehensive account of grammatical terms."

Title:  Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education ^TOP Editor:     Nat Bartels Call No:  P53.85 A67  "Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education is aimed at applied linguists who are interested in understanding more about the learning of novice teachers in their classes.  The 21 studies in this volume provide information on the complexity of novice teachers' learning and use of knowledge in a variety of applied linguistics classes such as SLA, Syntax, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics and Phonology, L2 Reading and Writing, Testing, and Content Based Instruction.  These studies were conducted in a variety of contexts, from North and South America to Europe, Asia and Australia, and look at the preparation of teachers of English, Spanish and Chinese. The book also includes a state-of-the-art summary of research on knowledge acquisition and use which provides applied linguists with a solid basis for developing their ideas about their students' learning and use of the knowledge presented in their classes.  Futhermore, valuable information for applied linguists interested in researching the learning in their own classrooms is provided by a chapter evaluating a variety of research methods.  Each author also provides "insider" information on the advantages and disadvantages of the research tools they used for investigating questions they have."

Title:  The Bilingual Child : Early Development and Language Contact ^TOP Authors:    Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews Call No:  P115.2 Y55  "Drawing on new studies of children exposed to two languages from birth (English and Cantonese), this book demonstrates how childhood bilingualism develops naturally in response to the two languages in the children's environment.  While each bilingual child's profile is unique, the children studied are shown to develop quite differently from monolingual children.  The authors demonstrate significant interactions between the children's developing grammars, as well as the important role played by language dominance in their bilingual development."

Title:  Second Language Lexical Processes: Applied Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives ^TOP Editors:    Zsolt Lengyel and Judit Navracsics Call No:  P118.2 S436  "This book contains studies on second language lexical processes based on empirical findings by authors mostly from Central Europe.  The focus of the studies are questions of two lexicons' integration or separation, the fashion of bilingual word storage, vocabulary acquisition and assessment, word retrieval from the memory and lexical access.  The authors use analyses of different psycholinguistic experiments (e.g. word association tests, speech perception tests, a Cloze-test).  Assessment of written work of second language learners both at secondary school and university levels is also covered.  Second language lexical acquisition processes are described and the influences of different types of languages on each other are shown.  The second languages involved are often less widely investigated and published: languages of Finno-Ugric (i.e. Hungarian) and Indo-European (e.g. Croatian, Polish, Russian, etc.) appear next to the more frequently studied English and German.  The book will be of use to undergraduate and graduate students of second language studies, psycholinguistics and/or bilingualism researchers, teachers and academics whose interests include a second language acquisition component."

Title:  Language, Capital, Culture : Critical Studies of Language and Education in Singapore ^TOP Editors:    Viniti Vaish, S. Gopinathan, Liu Yongbing Call No:  P381 S6V132  "This book will be the first volume to provide a critical analysis of language policy, curriculum and pedagogical practices in Singapore.  It will bring together international and national expertise to examine issues of language policies, curricula and pedagogies in the light of the intensification of cultural and economic globalization in the last decade and as a consequence of a renewed concern with the linguistic and cultural implications that a multi-polar world brings.  Indeed, one of the consequences of globalization is the tension between the centrifugal and centripetal forces of tradition and modernity that pull society in opposing directions and that the school is expected to harmonize."

DVD 12

ELTj/IATEFL debate 2007 : English as a Lingua Franca.  2007. Oxford : Oxford University Press. 

H62 H731

HOLLIDAY, Adrian.  2007.  Doing and writing qualitative research.  2nd ed.  London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; New Delhi : SAGE Publications. 

HA29 H7991

HUCK, Schuyler W.  2008.  Reading statistics and research.  5th ed.  Boston : Pearson/Allyn & Bacon. 

LB1028.24 K67

KOSHY, Valsa.  2005.  Action research for improving practice : a practical guide.  London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; New Delhi : Paul Chapman Publishing. 

LB1028.3 W385

WATTS-TAFFE, Susan M., Gwinn, Carolyn B.  2007.  Integrating literacy and technology : effective practice for grades K-6.  New York ; London : The Guilford Press. 

LB1028.5 N48

NETTELBECK, David Clive. 2005.  Computers, thinking and learning : inspiring students with technology.  Camberwell, Vic. : ACER Press.

LB1050 M475

MEYER, Richard J., Manning, Maryann Murphy.  2007.  Reading and teaching. Mahwah, N.J. ; London : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

LB1050.45 R428

McNAMARA, Danielle S. (ed.).  2007.  Reading comprehension strategies : theories, interventions, and technologies.  New York ; London : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

LB1576 B487

GRAHAM, Steve, MacArthur, Charles A., Fitzgerald, Jill (eds.).  2007.  Best practices in writing instruction.  New York ; London : The Guilford Press.

LB1576 C5636

PARATORE, Jeanne R., McCormack, Rachel L. (eds.).  2007.  Classroom literacy assessment : making sense of what students know and do.  New York ; London : The Guilford Press.

LB1576 G555

GLEESON, Libby. 2007. Writing like a writer : teaching narrative writing.  Newtown : Primary English Teaching Association.

LB1576 K55

KNAPP, Peter and Watkins, Megan. 2005.  Genre, text, grammar : technologies for teaching and assessing writing.  Sydney : UNSW Press.

P40 S783

STOCKWELL, Peter.  2007.  Sociolinguistics : a resource book for students.  2nd ed.  London ; New York : Routledge.

P40.5 L35F47

FERGUSON, Gibson. 2006.  Language planning and education.  Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. 

P51 H67

HORWITZ, Elaine Kolker.  2008.  Becoming a language teacher : a practical guide to second language learning and teaching.  Boston, Ma. : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.

P53.5 T43

TULASIEWICZ, Witold and Adams, Anthony (eds.).  2005.  Teaching the mother tongue in a multilingual Europe.  London ; New York : Continuum.

P53.82 I58

GARCÍA MAYO, María del Pilar (ed.).  2007.  Investigating tasks in formal language learning.  Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo ; Toronto : Multilingual Matters.

P53.85 A67

BARTELS, Nat, editor.  2005.  Applied linguistics and language teacher education.  New York : Springer.

P53.85 B35

BAILEY, Kathleen M.  2006.  Language teacher supervision : a case-based approach.  Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

P95.45 W66

WOOFFITT, Robin. 2005.  Conversation analysis and discourse analysis : a comparative and critical introduction.  London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; New Delhi : SAGE Publications.

P115.2 Y55

YIP, Virginia, Matthews, Stephen.  2007.  The bilingual child : early development and language contact.  Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

P116 B87

BURLING, Robbins. 2007.  The talking ape : how language evolved.  Oxford : Oxford University Press. 

P116 J64

JOHANSSON, Sverker.  2005.  Origins of language : constraints on hypotheses.  Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins.

P118 L242

TOMLINSON, Brian (ed.).  2007.  Language acquisition and development : studies of learners of first and other languages.  London : Continuum. 

P118.2 S436

LENGYEL, Zsolt and Navracsics, Judit (eds.).  2007.  Second language lexical processes : applied linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives.  Clevedon ; Buffalo ; Toronto : Multilingual Matters.

P221 S53

SINGH, Sadanand, Singh, Kala ; with contributions from Donald Mowrer and David Ingram.  2006.  Phonetics, principles and practices.  3rd ed.  San Diego ; Oxford ; Brisbane : Plural Publishing.

P381 P3L36

CUNNINGHAM, Denis, Ingram, D.E., and Sumbuk, Kenneth (eds.). Language diversity in the Pacific : endangerment and survival.  Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo ; Toronto : Multilingual Matters.

P381 S6V132

VAISH, Viniti, Gopinathan, Saravanan, Liu, Yongbing (eds.). 2007.  Language, capital, culture : critical studies of language and education in Singapore.  Rotterdam ; Taipei : Sense Publishers.

PE53.82 W55

WILLIS, Dave and Willis, Jane.  2007.  Doing task-based teaching.  Oxford : Oxford University Press.

PE1112 C26

CAMERON, Deborah.  2007.  The teacher's guide to grammar.  Oxford : Oxford University Press.

PE1128 A2W38

WATKINS, Peter.  2005.  Learning to teach English.  Peaslake, England : Delta Publishing.

PE1408 M87

MURRAY, Rowena and Moore, Sarah.  2006.  The handbook of academic writing : a fresh approach.  Maidenhead, England : Open University Press.

PE1479 B87G47

GERSON, Sharon J., Gerson, Steven M.  2007.  Workplace communication : process and product. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall.

PE1479 C7R591

ROBERTS, Edgar V.  2006.  Writing about literature.  11th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall.

T11 B55

BLAKESLEE, Ann M. and Fleischer, Cathy.  2007.  Becoming a writing researcher.  Mahwah, N.J. ; London : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

T11 B78

ALRED, Gerald J., Brusaw, Charles T., Oliu, Walter E.  2006. Handbook of technical writing.  8th ed.  New York : Bedford/St. Martin's.

RELC RESEARCH AND DISSERTATION

RELC/P/RP/2007/V1

NGUYEN, Thi Thuy Minh. 2007.  Textbook evaluation : the case of English textbooks currently in use in Vietnam's upper-secondary schools. Singapore : SEAMEO Regional Language Centre.

RELC/S/302/41

LENG, Siew Chyn. 2007. Motivating reluctant readers to read using their preferred reading materials and different classroom motivational strategies.

Dissertation (M.A.(Appl.Ling.)) -- National University of Singapore.

TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS

PE5852 C166 CD 31.6

CAMBRIDGE IELTS : examination papers from University of Cambridge ESOL examinations : English for Speakers of Other Languages.  6.  2007.  Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

PE6320 N5S622 CD 104.3

SOARS, John & Liz.  2007.  New headway : pre-intermediate. 3rd ed.  Oxford : Oxford University Press.

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