TY - BOOK AU - Lubna Alsagoff. AU - Silver,Rita AU - Goh,Christine Chuen Meng TI - Language learning in new English contexts: studies of acquisition and development SN - 0826498450 AV - PE3502.S5 L36 2009 U1 - 428.0071 22 PY - 2009///] CY - London, New York PB - Continuum KW - Second language acquisition KW - English language KW - Acquisition KW - Singapore KW - Variation KW - Study and teaching KW - Foreign speakers N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; English Acquisition and Development in Multilingual Singapore; Rita E. Silver , Christine G. Goh and Lubna Alsagoff --; 2; Learning English in Singapore: Pronunciation Targets and Norms; Madalena Cruz-Ferreira --; 3; Talking Beyond the Here-and-Now: Preschoolers' Use of Decontextualized Language; Christine G. Goh and Grace Ho Li Jun --; 4; Listening Strategies of Singaporean Primary Pupils; Peter Y Gu , Guangwei Hu and Lawrence J. Zhang --; 5; East Asian Architecture: Scaffolding in a Singaporean English Classroom; Viniti Vaish and Chitra Shegar --; 6; "What happen to your tenses?"; Paul Doyle --; 7; Metaphorizaton in Singaporean Student Writing; Libo Guo and Huaqing Hong --; 8; Development of Tense and Aspect in Singapore English; Lubna Alsagoff , Dennis Yap and Violet Yip --; 9; The Contribution of Process Drama to Improved Results in English Oral Communication; Madonna Stinson and Kelly Freebody --; 10; A Profile of an Adolescent Reader in Singapore: The Literacy "Repertoire" of the Reading Habit in Third Space; Wendy Bokhorst-Heng and Jeanne Wolf --; Afterword; Courtney Cazden ER -