Learning, keeping, and using language. vol. 1 : selected papers from the 8th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16-21 August 1987 / edited by M.A.K. Halliday, John Gibbons, Howard Nicholas.

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v. 1. An overview of applied linguistics / G. Richard Tucker. Interaction : the key to communication / Wilga M. Rivers. Learning the language and learning through language in early childhood / Jane Oldenburg. Conversational exchange between 5- to 6-year-old and the mother in a playroom situation / Judith Comeau and Marie-Claude Therrien. The role of transfer in simultaneous language acquisition / Anna Kwan-Terry. A sociolinguistic study of everyday talk between mothers and children / Ruqaiya Hasan and Carmel Cloran. Are mothers really the main mediators of language? / Susanne Döpke. "Artificial" bilingualism : must it fail? / George Saunders. The "bilingual" child as interlanguage hearer : implications for migrant education / Marta Rado and Lois Foster. Acquiring a sense of the story genre : an examination of semantic properties / Christine C. Pappas.

Cohesive ties in written narratives : a developmental study with beginning writers / Philipe Yde and Marc Spoelders. Metalinguistic activities and the development of the use of formal register among elementary school children / Luc Ostiguy, Giulles Gagné and Jean-Guy Blais. Learning to read in a second language : a window on the language acquisition process / Catherine Wallace. The development of genre in the writing of two adolescent Lebanese students of English as a second language / Marietta Elliott. Oral and written language in the educational context / Jennifer Hammond. Implications of learnability theories for second language learning and teaching / Lydia White. On the acquisition of word order rules in Swedish as a second language / Maria Bolander. A crossover effect in interlanguage : learners' use of English predicate complement constructions / Helen Borland.

A comparison of performance on Chinese and English dichotic listening tasks by bilingual native Mandarin speakers / Lee Thomas and Harry L. Gradman. The language of neurolinguistics : principles and perspectives in the application of linguistic theory to the neuropsychology of language / Gordon Bruce McKellar. Orthographic complexity and orthography acquisition / Philip A. Luelsdorff. "Process" vs. "product" or down with opposition! / Helen Moore. Towards an alternative curriculum for acquisition-poor environments / Makhan Lal Tickoo. Interactive discourse in the L2 classroom / Robert J. Di Pietro. The notion of synchrony in second language learning / June Gassin. Towards discourse-sensitive cloze procedures : the role of lexis / Ronald Carter. The analysis of sales encounters on the island of St. Croix : an ethnographic approach / Alma Simounet de Géigel. Linguistic difficulties in institutional discourse / Eija Ventola.

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