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Youth tourism to israel
This book is a comprehensive analysis of educational tours to Israel for Jewish youth, based on the author's empirical research. The tours are explored from multiple aspects including: history, education, population and comparison of sub-populations, ethnic and religious identity, adolescence, ma...
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The common european framework of reference
A comparative study of the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages produced by the Council of Europe in 2001, this book asks writers in European countries and countries in the Americas and Asia to explain the influence of the CEFR. For each country there is a policy-mak...
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Age and the acquisition of english as a foreign language
This book provides an overview of current research on the age factor in foreign language learning, addressing issues, which are critical for language planning. It presents research on foreign language learning within bilingual communities in formal instruction settings focussing on syntax, phonol...
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Aspects of bilingualism in wales
The minority language and culture of Wales is under threat. Building on a computer analysis of the 1981 Welsh language Census data, the book provides evidence of a language moving slowly towards extinction. Each chapter examines an issue which is of significance in most minority language situatio...
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Language planning and policy: issues in language planning and literacy
While literacy has always been central to language planning work, there are fewer studies which focus primarily on literacy as a language planning activity. This volume investigates the complex issues and social and political pressures relating to literacy in a variety of language planning contex...
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Creative writing studies
Here creative writers who are also university teachers monitor their contribution to this popular discipline in essays that indicate how far it has come in the USA, the UK and Australia. Chapters range across all three areas of its subtitle - practice, research and pedagogy - charting creative wr...
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Bilingualism in international schools
This book presents a model for instructing bilingual students in International Schools across the curriculum. In such schools there is now a majority of second language learners, and Carder presents a three-programme model which will provide content-based English-language skills, appropriate staf...
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Studies in japanese bilingualism
This book helps dissolve the myth of Japanese homogeneity by explaining the history of this construct and offering 12 empirical studies on different facets of language contact in Japan, including Ainu revitalisation, Korean language maintenance and English immersion, as well as codeswitching and ...
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The creativity market
This book focuses on creative writing both as a subject in universities around the world and beyond academia. It offers a thought-provoking analysis of creativity in the globalised marketplace, and examines the intersection of the university sector and the creative industries.
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Raising bilingual-biliterate children in monolingual cultures
This book is a longitudinal case study carefully detailing the French/English bilingual and biliterate development of three children in one family. The book focuses most specifically on the children’s acquisition of French and English during their early through late adolescence, in both their Lou...
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The english-vernacular divide
This book explores the role of English in postcolonial communities such as India. It focuses on some local ways in which the language falls along the lines of a class-based divide. It argues that issues of inequality, subordination and unequal value revolve around the general positioning of Engli...
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Vocabulary learning strategies and foreign language acquisition
The book discusses vocabulary learning strategies as an integral subgroup of language learning strategies. It attempts to integrate the approaches of theories of second language acquisition, the theory and practice of instructed foreign language learning, and the findings of current empirical res...
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The affective dimension in second language acquisition
This volume presents a series of empirical studies which focus on affectivity in relation to both individual learner differences, and language learning experiences, motivation and attitudes. The volume also elaborates on affectivity in various contexts of FL use and in different educational setti...
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Social context and fluency in l2 learners
The focus in this book is on learners’ experiences using Welsh outside class but the issues discussed have implications for a wide range of other situations where the population is bilingual or multilingual and interaction takes place in a language of wider communication.
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Residential tourism
This book offers the first in-depth, critical exploration of the foreign retirement/expatriate communities proliferating in both size and number throughout Latin America. This book draws on a diversity of perspectives in order to analyze the social and spatial impacts that this dynamic phenomenon...
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A dynamic model of multilingualism
This book focuses on the psycholinguistic dynamics of multilingualism and the processes of change in time affecting two or more language systems. It develops a novel approach to this challenging subject by bringing together various strands of research including second language acquisition theory,...
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Language learners with special needs
This book explores topics related to the language learning processes of learners with special needs including students with learning disabilities. The chapters written by authors in a wide variety of educational settings discuss individual learner characteristics and profiles, diagnosis and asses...
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Spices and tourism
This is the first book to explore the relationship between tourism and spices. It examines the various layers of connection between spices and tourism in the context of destinations, attractions and cuisines. This volume will be useful for researchers and students in cultural tourism, culinary to...
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Researching dyslexia in multilingual settings
This volume draws together current research on dyslexia and literacy in multilingual settings across disciplines and methodologies. The contributors, all internationally recognised in the field, address developmental and acquired literacy difficulties and dyslexia in a range of language contexts ...
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Festivals, tourism and social change
This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful.Festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making and re-animating ...
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Language, space and power
Language, Space, and Power describes the sociolinguistic and sociocultural life of a Spanish-English dual language classroom in which attention is given to not only the language learning processes at hand but also to how race, ethnicity, and gender dynamics interact within the language acquisitio...
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Histories of tourism
This book develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. Contributions explore the relationships between tourism, representations, environments and identities in settings ranging from the global to the local, from the Roman Empire to the twentieth century, and...
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A companion to translation studies
This book provides a guide to key approaches in translation studies.The book is divided into 9 specialist areas: culture, philosophy, linguistics, history, literary, gender, theatre and opera, screen, and politics. Each chapter gives an in-depth account of theoretical concepts, issues and debates...
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Spanish as an international language
Spanish is spoken in many countries around the world. Like all languages, it has regional and social variation. Spanish speakers in the US will invariably come into contact with this great variety. This book addresses these aspects of Spanish, while describing its most important linguistic features.
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Tourism and souvenirs
This book situates souvenirs as tangible and intangible cultural expressions and triggers of tourism experience that are ‘glocally’ developed on the margins. The authors gain new insights with this critique that situates souvenirs of place, people and experience as constructions of transnational ...
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The language difference
This book asks whether language makes a difference when it comes to development, and whether there is a perceptible difference in development between countries that is attributable to their choice of language. It answers these questions by comparing the role of language in Africa and in Southeast...
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Language and culture pedagogy
This book presents a view of what it means to teach language and culture in a world characterised by transnational flows of people, commodities and ideas. It contains an analysis of the national tradition of culture teaching as an aspect of foreign language teaching and proposes a transnational f...
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Tourism marketing
This book provides a thorough and detailed understanding of tourism marketing principles and practice within the context of inter-organisational collaboration. It introduces concepts, theories and issues central to inter-organisational collaboration and includes a series of detailed thematic chap...
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Teacher collaboration and talk in multilingual classrooms
This book examines the interactions of collaborating teachers in multilingual classrooms and how these impact on what counts as knowledge in the secondary school classroom. The study takes a linguistic ethnographic approach and considers the discourses of whole class and small group teaching and ...
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Decolonisation, globalisation
This volume brings together scholars from around the world to juxtapose the voices of classroom participants alongside the voices of ruling elites with the aim of critically linking language policy issues with classroom practice in a range of contexts. The volume is suitable for postgraduate stud...
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Language strategies for bilingual families
This book provides an inspiring approach to passing on two or more languages to your children through a focus on the one-person one-language approach. The book is grounded in academic research, but is both readable and relevant to non-academics and provides fascinating insights into being a multi...
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The acquisition of l2 phonology
This wide-ranging new collection explores various aspects of the acquisition of an L2 phonological system. It covers L2 speech production and perception, theoretical conceptualisations of L2 phonology acquisition, and the importance of the mastery of highly intelligible pronunciation as an import...
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Linguistic landscapes
This book is the first comprehensive approach to language on signs and provides a unique research perspective to urban multilingualism. It offers an up-to-date review of previous research, introduces a coherent analytical framework, and applies this framework to a sample of signs collected in Tokyo.
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Curriculum related assessment
This volume examines educational assessment of bilingual children and the challenges faced by teachers. It takes the creative ideas of Jim Cummins and applies them through a novel technique of curriculum related assessment. The book describes the technique in detail and reports on its use in a wi...
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Social media and minority languages
This book includes case studies, theoretical debates, international comparisons on minority languages, and presents a research agenda for the development of Minority Language Media studies. It addresses the challenges in multi-platform, mobile communication environments, focusing on the pitfalls ...
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Tourism, mobility and second homes
This volume describes the economic, social and environmental impacts of second homes as well as their planning implications and places such discussions within the context of contemporary human mobility. It represents the first major international analysis and review of second homes for over 25 ye...
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Youth culture, language endangerment and linguistic survivance
This book documents a decade of life and language use in a remote Alaskan Yup'ik community. It illuminates how schooling and migration shape complex linguistic ecologies; how youths broker sociolinguistic transformation; and how Indigenous peoples' wide-ranging forms of linguistic survivance sust...
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Official tourism websites
This text explores tourism websites as mediums of identity construction and promotion. As interactive modes of communication, tourism websites for nations, cities, and attractions function critically in the new capitalism as calls for social action in contributing to economic and social rebirth, ...
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Vernacular palaver
This book highlights the continuing appeal of local identities for participants in social networks where communication occurs in languages that are not mother tongues.It demonstrates the importance of notions of localness and locality for speakers of non-native languages, despite the growing prom...
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Reflections on translation
This collection of essays brings together a decade of writings on translation by leading international translation studies expert, Susan Bassnett. The essays cover a range of topics and will be useful to anyone with an interest in how different cultures communicate.
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The idea of english in japan
This book examines the ways in which English is conceptualised as a global language in Japan, and considers how the resultant language ideologies – drawn in part from universal discourses; in part from context-specific trends in social history – inform the relationships that people in Japan have ...
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Risk in academic writing
This book brings together a variety of voices - including students and teachers, journal editors and authors - to interrogate the notion of risk in academic writing. Risk-taking is viewed as a productive force, and one that can be used to challenge the silences and erasures inherent in academic t...
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Philosophical issues in tourism
The aim of this book is to bridge the disciplines of philosophy and tourism and to provide an analysis and application of philosophical issues of tourism. In doing so this book focuses on three key areas of knowledge, aesthetics and values.
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Learners' experience of immersion education
This text follows the progress of two groups of learners in late immersion programmes. It adds to the literature on such programmes by its emphasis on the processes of learning in such programmes. Another aim of the book is to extend knowledge of learning processes in character-based languages.
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Wildlife tourism
This book is a landmark contribution to the rapidly growing field of wildlife tourism, especially in regard to its underpinning foundations of science, conservation and policy. Written by a number of environmental and biological scientists it explains the synergy between wildlife and tourism by d...
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Multilingualism in post-soviet countries
In the past two decades, post-Soviet countries have emerged as a contested linguistic space, where disagreements over language and education policies have led to demonstrations, military conflicts and even secession. This collection offers an up-to-date comparative analysis of language and educat...
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Words, words, words. the translator and the language
This book presents an exciting new perspective on the study of the lexicon, examining ways in which insights from translation and language learning can be viewed as complementary. It brings together research on the mental lexicon, SLA research, translation studies and practice, terminology, langu...
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Understanding second language process
This book assembles 11 analytical and empirical studies on the process of SLA, reviewing a range of issues, from transfer appropriate processing to L2 default processing strategies, among hearing or deaf learners of a variety of target languages including English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Frenc...
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Power and meaning making in an eap classroom
This book examines how critical literacy pedagogy has been implemented in a classroom through a collaboration between the author (a researcher) and an EAP teacher. It will interest researchers and practitioners for the ethnographic and pedagogical issues it raises as well as its accessible theore...
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Tourism and national identity
This book explores the role of tourism as a means to express 'nation' and 'nationhood'. Based on field research in southwest and central Scotland it shows how various historical accounts, cultural icons and images, events and celebrations create a meaning of the Scottish nation.
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Bilingual education in china
This volume brings together research on bilingual or trilingual education for the majority and minority nationality groups in China and explores the relationship between them. Papers range from reports of bilingual or trilingual education projects in remote minority regions to discussions about C...
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Cultural tourism in a changing world
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the key political and social debates in the field of cultural tourism, drawing on a range of international examples to exemplify the issues raised. The authors highlight the complex dynamism of cultural tourism and its potential to transform destinations...
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Examining education, media, and dialogue under occupation
This book address media and education in the context of Palestine and Israel. They provide insights and provocative analysis of the status quo in education, including language teaching, educational policy and research, media representations and reporting in Middle East and U.S. and different mode...
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Resorts and ports
This book draws together case-studies which explore the changing relationships between port and resort activities in a cross-section of European maritime settings over 3 centuries. It will interest academics in tourism studies, geography and cultural studies, as well as providing information and ...
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Urban destination marketing in contemporary europe
This book aims to unite theory and practice in the field of destination marketing. It attempts to reconcile the gap between the academic literature on urban destination marketing and the manner in which it is actually undertaken by destination marketing organisations (DMOs).
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Plagiarism, intellectual property and the teaching of l2 writing
Plagiarism and intellectual property law are two issues that affect every student and every teacher throughout the world. Both concepts are concerned with how we use texts - print, digital, visual, and aural - in the creation of new texts. This book discusses the explicit teaching of these concep...
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Worlds of literacy
The idea behind this book is that in complex societies like our own there are different worlds of literacy that exist side by side. This book presents a range of case studies describing some of these worlds of literacy and is carefully organised by theme, so as to bring out both the differences a...
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North america
This book focuses on the demand, supply, key features and events that take place across the regions of Canada, the USA and Mexico. The diversity of socio-cultural, natural and economic features within and between regions has situated all 3 regions in positions of prominence on the World Tourism O...
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Foreign language teachers and intercultural competence
This book reports on a study that focused on teachers’ beliefs regarding intercultural competence teaching in foreign language education. It creates new knowledge on the variability, and relative consistency, of today’s foreign language teachers’ views regarding intercultural competence teaching ...
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Marine ecotourism
This book introduces the concept of marine ecotourism and assesses its value as a sustainable development option.It examines the major issues involved in planning and managing marine ecotourism and examines a range of experiences, based on case examples from around the world, of how those issues ...
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Language planning and policy in africa, vol 1
This volume covers the language situation in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the ...
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Survival and development of language communities
This volume explores the main challenges facing 7 well-established medium-sized language communities with regard to their survival and development at the beginning of the 21st century. The book provides an in-depth analysis of each case, and reaches conclusions that are relevant to other cases an...
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New perspectives on teaching and learning modern languages
This book, featuring chapters from the foremost practitioners in the field of modern languages, closely examines research-based analysis, structural contexts and classroom practice in teaching and learning. It provides much needed fresh thinking on methodology and pedagogy.
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Dual language education
Dual language education is a program that combines language minority and language majority students for instruction through 2 languages. This book provides the background for the program and discusses major implementation issues. Research findings summarize language proficiency and achievement ou...
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Incorporating corpora
Covering a number of European languages from Portuguese to Hungarian, this volume includes many new studies of translation patterns using parallel corpora focusing on particular linguistic features, as well as broader-ranging contributions on translation ‘universals’.
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Railway heritage and tourism
This is the first book of its kind to examine railway heritage in the context of tourism in a comprehensive, internationally relevant manner. It explores the challenges faced by developers and operators of railway heritage destinations including financial, legal and managerial sustainability in t...
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The multiliteracies classroom
This book explores the challenges and rewards of engaging students in literacy learning through multimedia design. The first research of its kind, it applies key themes of critical sociology to multiliteracies, inspiring educators to envisage the changing shape of literacy research.
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The languages of israel
This book is an original and comprehensive treatment of the languages of Israel – of the practice and of the ideology. Against the background of an original theory of language policy, it asks about the extent to which the present linguistic pattern may be attributed to explicit language planning ...
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Tourism and cricket
This book is the first to focus on the relationship between tourism and cricket. The volume examines how cricket as a participant and spectator sport generates diverse tourism to both major and peripheral locations. It will appeal to researchers, students and teachers in tourism, sport and leisure.
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The politics of world heritage
This collection discusses World Trade Law and focuses on the contested nature of World Heritage at sites as diverse as The Netherlands, Ellis Island, post-colonial Mesoamerica, Cambodia, Fiji, Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam. In addition, 8 research notes explore heritage interpretation in the USA, Lebano...
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Tourism, globalisation and cultural change
This book offers original insights into the broad and deep influences of tourism, and places them within the historical context of globalisation. The research undertaken on a Canary Island emphasises the indigenous experience, and makes cross-cultural comparisons, especially with island communities.
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Dynamic tourism
This book portrays a fresh approach to tourism. It argues for increased and radical change by the tourism industry and claims that this change is made necessary by the emergent sophistication and increased experience of tourists who require a different style of treatment and type of product.
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Trends in european tourism planning and organisation
This book by leading international tourism researchers examines the key trends in European tourism planning and organisation. It introduces a theoretical framework to tourism planning and organisation using a procedural and structural approach. It also identifies leading and emerging practices an...
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Polar tourism
This book draws attention to the problems and issues surrounding fast-growing tourism in the highly sensitive wilderness areas of polar regions. The authors discuss mainly polar issues, but their conclusions and management techniques apply equally to all environmentally sensitive areas throughout...
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