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Book SynopsisThis is the first book that deals primarily with vocabulary learning strategies as a specific and integral subgroup of language learning strategies. Its aim is to define the concept of language learning strategies in general and their features on the basis of cognitive theory and relevant models of second language acquisition as the basis for empirical research. Furthermore, the book gives a survey of relevant research on vocabulary learning strategies and describes three original empirical studies. Thus, the book integrates the approaches of theories of second language acquisition, the theory and practice of instructed foreign (second) language learning, and the findings of current empirical research.Trade ReviewThis book provides a timely, thoughtful, and welcome contribution to the current surge of articles and edited volumes on L2 strategies. Researchers interested in vocabulary and strategies will appreciate its concentrated, theoretical accounts of vocabulary learning, whereas classroom practitioners will value the pedagogical applications it provides on topics such as L2 strategy instruction. -- Luke Plonsky, Michigan State University, USA, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition Volume 31, 2009The book is well-written, nicely organized, and reader-friendly, and it should be quite accessible to teachers, researchers, and graduate students alike. It provides excellent coverage of relevant theories of vocabulary learning and useful data through its empirical chapters. It should be essential reading for language teachers and graduate students working on language learning and teaching strategies and can also be enthusiastically recommended as a supplementary text for courses on methodology in second and foreign language teaching. * Is’haaq Akbarian, University of Qom, in English for Specific Purposes 28 (2009) *This much needed book will be an invaluable text for researchers of language learning strategies and of vocabulary acquisition, and for teachers and teacher educators. It will stimulate the reader to reflect at length, not only on learner strategy deployment, but also on the problematical relationship between instruction and acquisition. The elaborate and detailed review of studies in the field makes the book suitable for those new to the field while the results of new research particularly in the second and third studies will appeal to those with more advanced knowledge and experience in the area. * Dr Muiris O'Laoire, Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland *Takac's book is a significant contribution to LLS in the field of SLA. Each chapter is clearly laid-out and well written, with excellent end-of-chapter summaries. I believe that this much needed book will be an invaluable resource and will be thought-provoking for the reader, not only on learner strategy use, but also on the relationship between strategy training and language acquisition. Overall, I would highly recommend this book to those researchers involved in LLS and of vocabulary acquisition, and for teachers and teacher educators. The wealth of illustrations and the elaborate discussion makes this book an extremely useful reference for those involved in strategy teaching and training. * Yasemin Kirkgoz, University of Cukurova, Turkey, in Linguist List 19.2650 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Factors Affecting Vocabulary Learning and Acquisition Chapter Two: Theoretical Anchorage Chapter Three: Survey of Research on Vocabulary Learning Strategies Chapter Four: Studies on Vocabulary Learning Strategies Chapter Five: Summary, Some Implications for Practice and Research, and Conclusions References Appendices

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Book SynopsisAll human activity takes place in space and time in one way or another, which is consequently reflected in our language. We not only talk about space and time but also cannot but ground our linguistic activity in space and time. Furthermore, space and time are closely, although asymmetrically, related in our experience and we often think and talk about one in terms of the other. Specifically, time is conceived in terms of space far more frequently than vice versa. The volume contains a selection of essays that are revised versions of papers presented at the 23rd annual conference of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society (CALS), entitled «Space and Time in Language: Language in Space and Time», which took place from 21 to 23 May 2009 in Osijek (Croatia).Table of ContentsContents: Mario Brdar/Marija Omazić/Višnja Pavičić Takač/Tanja Gradečak-Erdeljić/Gabrijela Buljan: Introduction – Günter Radden: Spatial time in the West and the East – Tanja Gradečak-Erdeljić: Spatial and temporal relations in the conceptual metaphor Events are Things – Anuška Štambuk: A corpus-based analysis of metaphors motivated by the spatial meaning of the Croatian lexeme daleko (‘far(away)’) – Jodi L. Sandford: The spatial relations of color: Linguistic categorization of Light-Dark and Near-Far – Daniela Katunar/Krešimir Šojat: Morphosemantic fields in the building of the Croatian WordNet: The Verbs of Movement – Marija Brala-Vukanović: Where is o: Croatian prepositions as vectors – Vesna Deželjin: Spatial deictic elements in Italian and Croatian – Barbara Kerovec: Successive prepositions in Croatian as translational equivalents of Turkish semi-postpositions: ungrammaticality or necessity? – Renata Geld/Stela Letica Krevelj: Centrality of space in the strategic construal of up in English particle verbs – Marica Čilaš Mikulić/Sanda Lucija Udier: Space, spatiality and spatial relations in Croatian as a second and foreign language – Bogdanka Pavelin Lešić: The metaphorization of space in speech and gesture – Gabrijela Buljan/Alma Vančura: Waltzing and snaking through physical space: English denominal verb conversions on the lexical-constructional interface – Goran Schmidt/Marija Omazić: Time metaphors in English and Croatian: A corpus-based study – Jadranka Zlomislić/Vlatka Ivić/Blaženka Šoštarić: Non-native speakers lost in space but found in time – Anita Pavić Pintarić: Time in fictive orality (Based on Croatian and German novels) – Aleksandar Kavgić: Time and tense in United States presidents’ inaugural speeches from the perspective of historical sociolinguistics – Mirjana Mandić: The extension of meaning of temporal adverbs in Serbian-speaking children aged 1;6 to 4;0 – Šarolta Godnič Vičič: Native and foreign places in travel writing: The Guardian travel section – Višnja Pavičić Takač/Vesna Bagarić: Foreign language acquisition in space and time: A comparative analysis of the Croatian foreign language acquisition context – Renata Fox: Language and ideology in time and space.

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