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Second language socialization and learner agency
This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. It focuses on how learners achieve agency in second language socialization processes and informs the fields of second langua...
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Language loyalty, language planning, and language revitalization
Joshua Fishman is perhaps best known and loved for his pioneering and enduring work in language loyalty and reversing language shift. This book brings together a selection of his work on these topics and some of his perspectives on the field of sociolinguistics, along with an interview dialogue i...
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Literary translation
In this book, both beginning and experienced translators will find pragmatic techniques for dealing with problems of literary translation, whatever the original language. Written in a witty and easy to read style, the book’s hands-on approach will make it accessible to translators of any background.
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Language socialization in bilingual and multilingual societies
This book offers an exploration of language socialization from very early childhood through to adulthood, not only in often-studied communities in Canada and the United States, but also in Australia, Bolivia, Egypt, India and Slovakia.
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Principles and practices of teaching english as an international language
This book critically examines current ELT practices vis-à-vis the use of English as an international lingua franca. It bridges the gap between theoretical discussion and the practical concerns of teaching English as an international language, and presents diverse approaches for preparing competen...
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Ebonics
Controversy erupted when the Oakland Unified School District’s ‘Ebonics Resolution’ proposed an approach to teaching Standard English that recognized the variety of English spoken by African American students. With demands for accountability driven by the NCLB policy, this debate will rise again....
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Rethinking bilingual education in postcolonial contexts
Taking an ethnographic study of the purpose and value of bilingual education in Mozambique as a starting point, this book calls for critical adaptations when theories of bilingual education, based on practices in the North, are applied to the countries of the global South.
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Language and literacy teaching for indigenous education
This book presents a proposal for the inclusion of indigenous languages in the classroom. Based on extensive research and field work by the authors in communities in the US and Mexico, the book explores ways in which the cultural and linguistic resources of indigenous communities can enrich the l...
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Cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning
This book explores the importance of cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning. Similarities can be perceived in the form of simplified one-to-one relationships or merely assumed. The book outlines the different roles of L1 transfer on comprehension and on production, and on close ...
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Motivation, language identity and the l2 self
With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive anthology of conceptual and empirical papers describing the latest developments in L2 motivation research that involves the reframing of motivation in the context of contemporary notions ...
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Critical citizens for an intercultural world
This book offers theoretical foundations and practical proposals for the development of critical cultural awareness and intercultural communication competence among prospective and practising foreign language/culture educators. It proposes an enhanced cultural and political role for educators in ...
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The education of language minority immigrants in the united states
This book focuses on educational language minority immigrant issues in the US. It explores factors predicting language proficiency, the role of language and identity in the lives of immigrant language minority youth, and issues of educational policy related to this group.
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The multilingual turn in languages education
This book addresses the ways in which languages education around the world has changed in recent years to recognise and reflect the increasing phenomenon of societal multilingualism. It examines the implications for research, theory, policy and practice.
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Strategic language learning
This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates’ language learning experiences in an English medium university. The inquiry reveals dynamic interaction between agency and contextual conditions underlying the participants’ strategic learning efforts in a multi...
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Multilingualism in mathematics classrooms
Learning and teaching mathematics in multilingual, bilingual or second language settings can be challenging. This book explores the issues that arise in multilingual mathematics classrooms in Europe, S.Asia, N.America and Australia. Chapter draw on research to offer new insights into the relation...
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Minority languages and cultural diversity in europe
This book engages critically with debates about linguistic continuity and cultural survival in relation to Europe's authochthonous minorities. Focusing on Scotland's Gaels and Lusatia's Sorbs/Wends, it analyses and evaluates competing assumptions, rationales and ideologies which have shaped previ...
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Age and the rate of foreign language learning
This book examines the various ways in which age affects the process and the product of foreign language learning in a school setting. It presents studies that cover a wide range of topics, from phonetics to learning strategies. It will be of interest to students and researchers working in SLA re...
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Education for intercultural citizenship
This book examines citizenship education from the perspective of interculturality in order to extend its meaning and significance within and beyond the nation state, and in education in the nation state. There are chapters which deal with theory and concepts and others which present country and i...
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Language policies in english-dominant countries
This book analyses policy development in six countries where, because of its association with colonial expansion, English has become the dominant language and hence the language of power, government and civil commerce, often replacing other local languages.
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Cross-linguistic influences in the second language lexicon
This volume contains a selection of papers analyzing language transfer, a phenomenon which results from language contact in bilingual and multilingual language acquisition and learning contexts. The main focus of the volume is on the lexical aspects of language transfer.
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Communication disorders in spanish speakers
This volume provides much-needed multidisciplinary bases to provide clinical services to Spanish speakers. Researchers and practitioners provide theoretical and empirical grounds to develop evidence-based clinical procedures for monolingual Spanish and bilingual Spanish-English children and adult...
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On creative writing
What is Creative Writing? Millions of people do it, but how do we do it, really? What evidence of its undertaking does Creative Writing produce? How do we explore Creative Writing and how do we come to understand it? This book considers these questions and analyses the very human activity of Crea...
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Language planning and policy in europe, vol. 1
This volume covers the language situation in Hungary, Finland, and Sweden 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 roles of minority...
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Critical pedagogy
Critical Pedagogy, as a movement and an intellectual field, engages with the political and ideological questions raised in educational practices. In this book the respective fields of languages, intercultural communication and critical pedagogy are brought into dialogue, dissent and reflection.
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Self and identity in adolescent foreign language learning
This book explores the role of identity in adolescent foreign language learning. It presents both qualitative and quantitative research, as well as a new model of identity, to support the claim that discrepancy in the display of the self can affect achievement in education.
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Studies in second language acquisition of chinese
This book aims to further understanding of the acquisition of Chinese as a foreign or second language. The six independent studies, which focus on various aspects of the learning process from morphosyntax to pragmatics to peer interaction, offer empirical insights into learners under an array of ...
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Power and identity in the creative writing classroom
This book remaps theories and practices for teaching creative writing at university and college level. It critiques well-established approaches for teaching creative writing in all genres, builds a comprehensive and adaptable pedagogy based on issues of authority, power, and identity and shapes c...
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Contemporary translation theories
During the last thirty years, the field of translation has exploded with multiple new theories. This book examines five of new approaches – the translation workshop, the science of translation, translation studies, polysystem theory, and deconstruction – all of which began in the mid -1960s and c...
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The sociolinguistic competence of immersion students
This bookinvestigates the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation by immersion students who have learnt their second language primarily in an educational context. The student’s mastery of sociolinguistic competence is measured in relation to a range of phonetic, lexical and grammatical variants ...
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Language and education in multilingual settings
This book explores the difference between languages that children learn in the home and the languages valued by society and established as the medium of instruction in schools is an almost universal problem in educational systems. In this book, researchers discuss practice and theory in various p...
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Testing the untestable in language education
This book investigates the intersections between language learning and assessment and four specific areas within language learning: learner autonomy, intercultural competence, literary competence and the integration of content and language learning. It is a valuable study of the seemingly untesta...
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Socializing identities through speech style
Drawing on the perspective of language socialization and a theory of indexicality, this book examines dinnertime talk in a homestay context and explores ways in which learners of Japanese as a foreign language and their Japanese host families socialize their identities through speech style.
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Revitalising indigenous languages
This book offers a language revitalisation method that can be used with Indigenous and minority languages, especially in cases where the native language has been lost among people of a working age. It gives practical examples and a theoretical frame of reference for how to plan, organise and impl...
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Bilingual community education and multilingualism
This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in New York. It reveals how these groups' efforts go beyond what has been called 'heritage language education' to focus on the cons...
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Politeness in europe
This book aims to contribute to knowledge and understanding of politeness by giving a broad picture of it across22 European countries, addressing the essential debates at the heart of politeness studies. Each chapter attempts to provide an empirical snapshot, based on sound theoretical principles...
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The defence of french
This book traces the history and development of language defence in France and examines the sometimes contradictory attitudes of French people to their beloved language. It assesses the necessity for and the usefulness of the many activities in defence of French and suggests what its future might...
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The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in a study abroad context
Drawing on cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of a range of sociolinguistic variables in L2 French, this volume explores the relationship between 'study abroad' and the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation patterns by the advanced second language learner.
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Regional nationalism in spain
This book is about linguistic diversity and language revitalisation in Galicia, an autochthonous region of Spain. Taking historical and linguistic perspectives, it examines societal language use and institutional support to determine the role of the Galician language and loyalty and prestige fact...
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Talk, text and technology
This is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. It traces one group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy to the arrival of digital literacies. It examines social, cultural and linguistic practices across the generations and addresses the implicati...
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Minority education: from shame to struggle
This book analyses policy issues regarding the education of minority students in western industrialised societies and presents a number of case studies of programs that have been successful in reversing the pattern of minority students' academic failure.
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Community and communication
This book considers the issue of language in the European Union. With a community of communication, the European Union could develop democratic structures and legitimacy and give meaning to its policies of free movement. How to achieve that community of communication is the biggest challenge faci...
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The language of adult immigrants
This work explores how immigrant small business owners co-construct their theories of agency, in relation to language learning and use. It explores the constitution of language learner agency by drawing on performativity theory. It builds on the work of Vygotsky and Bakhtin along with research on...
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Multilingualism in european bilingual contexts
Despite the spread of multilingualism, the number of research studies in multilingual contexts is scarce. This book deals with this question by examining would-be teachers’ language use and attitudes, as their influence on future generations can be enormous.
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Bilingualism
This book deals with individual bilingualism, societal and educational phenomena and addressing issues such as bilingual usage, acquisition, teaching, and language planning and policy. The volume’s major asset lies in its diversity of topics and in the range of languages and geographical regions ...
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Three is a crowd?
The book, written by a multilingual parent, educator and linguist, describes three siblings' apportioning of linguistic and cultural space among three languages: Portuguese, Swedish and English. Parallel strategies accounting for monolingual and multilingual language management shape a truly illu...
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World english
This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, combining that with a study of its language change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and change of English, putting forward a new framew...
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Welcoming linguistic diversity in early childhood classrooms
When young English language learners speak a variety of home languages, welcoming them into the classroom can be very challenging for teachers and English-speaking pupils. This book, written by teachers experienced in addressing the needs of this group, is a vital resource for new teachers workin...
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Effects of the second language on the first
This book looks at changes in the first language of people who know a second language, thus seeing L2 users as people in their own right differing from the monolingual in both first and second languages. It presents theories and research that investigate the first language of second language user...
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Translation research and interpreting research
This volume deals with Translation Research and Interpreting Research. It explores kinship, differences and prospects for partnership between the two. He gives an overview of the history of research into translation and interpreting, explores commonalities and reviews differences between them and...
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Multilingual aspects of fluency disorders
This book examines how the diverse forms seen in some of the world’s languages affect speech development and how this can lead to fluency disorders. Language in monolingual speakers of different languages is examined as well as specific issues that may arise in speakers who speak two or more lang...
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Young children as intercultural mediators
This ethnographic study presents a detailed depiction of family life in immigrant Chinese communities. Utilising a strongly contextualised and evidence-based narrative approach to exploring the nature of child cultural mediation, the author provides an insightful analysis of intercultural relatio...
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The sociolinguistics of development in africa
This book is an analysis of modernisation informed by the place of language in education, health, the economy and governance in the African context. It paints a wide canvas of Africa in its different facets, and shows how language is used as an instrument to deny access to socioeconomic and polit...
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Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts
The volume highlights the role of language ideologies in the process of negotiation of identities and shows that in different historical and social contexts different identities may be negotiable or non-negotiable. The chapters address various ways in which individuals may be positioned or positi...
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Translation, power, subversion
The starting point of this book is the idea that language is not neutral and that, insofar as language is the translator's tool, the act of translating is not neutral either. Translating can never be neutral, as it is charged with ideology and 'games of power'.
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English in europe
This book emerges as a response to the increasing use of English as a lingua franca in the multilingual European context. It provides an up-to-date overview of the sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of research on third language acquisition by focusing on English as a third...
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Research in logopedics
This book links theoretical approaches of logopedics to clinical practices of speech and language therapy in Finland and in Finnish language. It provides the readers with examples of and insights into the communication challenges in a language that differs substantially from those used in the maj...
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Quebec's aboriginal languages
This volume is the most complete of any published concerning the nine native languages of Quebec: Abenaki, Algonquin, Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, Micmac, Mohawk, Montagnais and Naskapi.
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Indigenous community-based education
This edited collection evaluates indigenous community-based initiatives from around the world. Examples include programmes among Maori in New Zealand, Sámi in Norway, Aboriginal People in Australia, Innu in Canada, and Native Americans in the mainland US, Hawai’i, Canada and South America.
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Sociolinguistics and language education
This book provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, including topics of nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, multimodal literacies, classroom discourse, ideologies and power, across various language education contexts.
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At war with diversity
Bilingualism is a reality that many Americans still find difficult to accept; hence the prominence of English-only activism in U.S. politics. This collection of essays analyzes the sources of the anti-bilingual movement, its changing directions, and its impact on education policy. The book also e...
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Motivation, language attitudes and globalisation
This volume presents the results of the largest ever language attitude/motivation study, involving over 13,000 teenage language learners in Hungary surveyed in 1993, 1999 and 2004. The results are not confined to the European context but have wider implications concerning attitude change, motivat...
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Artificial intelligence in second language learning
This volume argues that adults can learn English as a second language if their typical errors are corrected systematically and in line with their preferred style of learning. The remedy designed for this purpose relies on artificial intelligence. The book describes original research which demonst...
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The impact of self-concept on language learning
This book shows the effects of self-concept on L2 learning and teaching. It includes chapters discussing approaches related to self-concept; empirical studies related to the selves of learners; research from the teachers' perspective on students' self-concept and L2 motivational intervention stud...
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Identity, insecurity and image
This book is about the relationship between language and the society that uses it. It specifically aims to discover what drives the French to concentrate so much on language, on what characterises their approach, and on the explanations for the policies governments pursue.
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Talk and social organisation
This book contains a collection of original studies in conversation analysis arranged and presented both to introduce the discipline to the newcomer and to reveal some of the expanding range of discoveries which conversation analysts are making in the course of their distinctive enquiries into th...
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Cultural encounters in translation from arabic
Translation is intercultural communication in its purest form. The chapters in this unique volume assess translation from Arabic into other languages from different perspectives: the politics, economics, ethics, and poetics of translating from Arabic; a language often neglected in western mainstr...
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Mediating languages and cultures
The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a foreign language is both necessary and desirable. Languages and cultures are interlinked and interdepe...
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Bilingualism and language pedagogy
This book brings an understanding of language as a social practice, and bilingualism as the study of bidirectional transitioning, to the examination of bilingual settings in the US, Europe and developing countries. The volume suggests that language pedagogy needs to reflect new understandings of ...
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Salsa, language and transnationalism
This unique contribution to the field of sociolinguistics scrutinises language ideologies in a globalised world. Using ethnographic methodology and a deconstructive approach to language it examines German and Australian Communities of Practice constituted by Salsa dance, and asks what languages s...
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Third or additional language acquisition
Third or Additional Language Acquisition examines research on the acquisition of languages beyond the L2 within four main areas of inquiry: crosslinguistic influence, multilingual speech production models, the multilingual lexicon and the impact of bi/multilingualism on cognitive development.
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Audible difference
This book is about the relationship between learning English as an additional language and the ways in which immigrant students are able to represent their identities at school. In high schools, how such students are heard by others may be just as important as how they speak.
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Reflections on multiliterate lives
This is a collection of personal accounts of the formative literacy experiences of highly successful second language users, all of who are professional academics. Representing fourteen countries in origin, the contributors recount in their own words past and present struggles and successes as lea...
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Language loyalty, continuity and change
This book provides a comprehensive and synoptic view of Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to sociolinguistics. Essays provide readers with the essential understandings of Fishmanian sociolinguistics and his contributions to Yiddish scholarship.It serves as a valuable summary of the sociology of l...
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Language learners in study abroad contexts
Examining the overseas experience of language learners in diverse contexts through a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, studies in this volume look at the acquisition of language use, socialization processes, learner motivation, identity and learning strategies.
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Willingness to communicate in the chinese efl university classroom
This book integrates the findings of a quantitative study with a qualitative multiple case study to provide insights into students' willingness to communicate within a Chinese EFL context. It presents an ecological model of WTC to further the understanding of the interaction of individual and env...
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