1st Edition

Aspects of Language Development in an Intensive English Program

By Alan Juffs Copyright 2020
304 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

While there is much in the literature on ESL development, this book is the first of its kind to track the development of specific language abilities in an Intensive English Program (IEP) longitudinally and highlights the implications of this particular study’s findings for future IEP implementation and practice and ESL and SLA research. The volume draws on many years’ worth of data from learners... Read more



List of Figures



List of Tables



Acknowledgements



Preface



Chapter 1 Intensive English Programs and Second Language Teaching Research



Chapter 2 The Intensive English Program at the University of Pittsburgh: Methods and Curriculum



Chapter 3 Placement Assessment and Developmental Measures in an Intensive English Program



Chapter 4 Lexical Development in an Intensive English Program



Chapter 5 Grammatical Development in an Intensive English Program



Chapter 6 Spoken Language: Pronunciation and the Development of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in an Intensive English Program



Chapter 7 Some Features of the Development of Writing in an Intensive English Program



Chapter 8 Epilogue  



Index

Biography

Alan Juffs is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the English Language Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also taught English in Asia, Europe, and North America. His research focuses on formal linguistic approaches to second language acquisition, the lexicon (Juffs, 1996), and sentence processing (Juffs & Rodríguez, 2014).