Nancy Stenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 747982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Stenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Stenson |
| SIGNATURE | STENSON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
One step forward and two steps back in teaching an endangered language? Revisiting L2 reading in Irish
Hickey’s (1991) article [Leisure reading in a second language: An experiment with audio tapes. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 4(2), 119-131. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07908319109525098] reported the benefits of audio-support for L2 reading of real books, showing gains in fluency and motivation among 9-year-old learners of Irish. In the 25 years since that, there have been significant changes in the educational and sociolinguisti…
Semantic extension and language contact
The Irish verb faigh ‘get, find’ displays a range of colloquial uses that resemble in part the polysemy of English get; accordingly, they are commonly assumed to be the result of English influence, despite almost no study of the verb's history. However, caution is called for in assuming transfer whenever nonstandard forms show similarities between the two languages, as recent research on Irish English suggests. Scholars of the English dialects in…
Irish orthography
Irish has significant State support, but lacks a research base to support the teaching of Irish reading. Current approaches to teaching Irish reading are presented, and outcomes summarised. Issues of consistency and complexity in Irish orthography are discussed in light of an analysis of a corpus of early reader texts, and the formulation of rules for discriminating between words which are regular by letter-sound and grapheme-sound rules is outli…
The Celtic Languages
Irish autonomous impersonals
Overlapping Systems in the Irish Comparative Construction
Irish autonomous impersonals
One step forward and two steps back in teaching an endangered language? Revisiting L2 reading in Irish
Hickey’s (1991) article [Leisure reading in a second language: An experiment with audio tapes. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 4(2), 119-131. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07908319109525098] reported the benefits of audio-support for L2 reading of real books, showing gains in fluency and motivation among 9-year-old learners of Irish. In the 25 years since that, there have been significant changes in the educational and sociolinguisti…
Irish orthography
Irish has significant State support, but lacks a research base to support the teaching of Irish reading. Current approaches to teaching Irish reading are presented, and outcomes summarised. Issues of consistency and complexity in Irish orthography are discussed in light of an analysis of a corpus of early reader texts, and the formulation of rules for discriminating between words which are regular by letter-sound and grapheme-sound rules is outli…
Overlapping Systems in the Irish Comparative Construction
Overlapping Systems in the Irish Comparative Construction
Irish autonomous impersonals
The Celtic Languages
Irish orthography
Irish has significant State support, but lacks a research base to support the teaching of Irish reading. Current approaches to teaching Irish reading are presented, and outcomes summarised. Issues of consistency and complexity in Irish orthography are discussed in light of an analysis of a corpus of early reader texts, and the formulation of rules for discriminating between words which are regular by letter-sound and grapheme-sound rules is outli…
Semantic extension and language contact
The Irish verb faigh ‘get, find’ displays a range of colloquial uses that resemble in part the polysemy of English get; accordingly, they are commonly assumed to be the result of English influence, despite almost no study of the verb's history. However, caution is called for in assuming transfer whenever nonstandard forms show similarities between the two languages, as recent research on Irish English suggests. Scholars of the English dialects in…
One step forward and two steps back in teaching an endangered language? Revisiting L2 reading in Irish
Hickey’s (1991) article [Leisure reading in a second language: An experiment with audio tapes. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 4(2), 119-131. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07908319109525098] reported the benefits of audio-support for L2 reading of real books, showing gains in fluency and motivation among 9-year-old learners of Irish. In the 25 years since that, there have been significant changes in the educational and sociolinguisti…
Linguistics (6 works) · Irish (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · History (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · linguistics and terminology studies (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works)