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This comprehensive, forward-looking text is the first holistic research overview and practical methods guide for researching the role that affective and conative factors play in second language learners¿ task performance and language acquisition.

This comprehensive, forward-looking text is the first holistic research overview and practical methods guide for researching the role that affective and conative factors play in second language learners¿ task performance and language acquisition.

This book examines the use of tasks in second language instruction in a variety of international contexts, and addresses the need for a better understanding of how tasks are used in teaching and program-level decision-making. The chapters consider the key issues, examples, benefits and challenges that teachers, program designers and researchers face in using tasks in a diverse range of contexts around the world, and aim to understand practitio...

This book examines the use of tasks in second language instruction in a variety of international contexts, and addresses the need for a better understanding of how tasks are used in teaching and program-level decision-making. The chapters consider the key issues, examples, benefits and challenges that teachers, program designers and researchers face in using tasks in a diverse range of contexts around the world, and aim to understand practitio...

Explore these tested and true strategies to bring more light, happiness, and health to your relationship.You love each other, but how much do you love your relationship? Too often, and for many, the busy-ness of work, parenting, and family obligations means the time and effort we once put into our romantic partnerships wane over time. Creating a thriving long-term relationship takes real skills. The good news is that these can be learned, are ...

This volume addresses an important gap in the literature on task design and second language use. Building on insights from over 50 years of research on the relationship between task demands and language use, it examines how referent similarity relates to developmentally-relevant variation in the use of nominal structures, comparative structures and abstract lexis among first and second language speakers of English. In addition to providing an ...

Escludendo il sonno, il lavoro è l'attività che occupa la maggior parte della vita di ogni uomo. Da sempre il lavoro sorregge l'economia, la società, la famiglia, e dà valore persino alle nostre esistenze. Ma oggi la sua ombra ha invaso ogni angolo del nostro tempo. Com'è stato possibile? Oggi prenotiamo dal nostro pc le vacanze, usiamo l'home banking, facciamo il check in on line. Ma un tempo tutti questi erano lavori retribuiti, che adesso f...

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With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound transformation in the nature of work that is significantly altering lives: the incoming tidal wave of shadow work. Shadow work includes all the unpaid tasks we...

Ein Phänomen greift um sich, schleichend und unmerklich: Immer mehr Dinge »darf« man heutzutage selbst erledigen, die früher noch Angestellte für einen gemacht haben. Ob man per App am Flughafen eincheckt, eine Banküberweisung durchführt, am Automaten eine Fahrkarte zieht oder den Terminkalender für die Arbeit organisiert, dank der Technik geht der Trend zum »Do it yourself!«. Diese Entwicklung wird uns als Vorteil verkauft. Doch stimmt das wi...

Mariners made a major - but neglected - contribution to England's warfare in the middle ages. Here their role is examined anew, showing their importance.

A major challenge for neuroscientists today is to integrate basic research findings into applied clinical approaches for treating brain disorders. At the same time, mental health practitioners must acquire broad-based knowledge of neurobiology, behaviour, and environment if they hope to understand how brain mechanisms work. The first and only textbook of its kind, "Clinical Neuroscience" bridges this chasm by integrating neurobiological mechan...

Lambert turns rowing--which combines personal discipline, grand tradition, and the pursuit of fitness--into a metaphor for a vigorous and satisfying life.