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Linguistic practice in changing conditions
This book draws on 10 years of collaborative sociolinguistic work on the changing conditions of language use. It begins with guiding principles, shifts to empirically driven arguments in urban sociolinguistics, and concludes with studies of (in)securitised communication addressed to challenges ah...
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Codeswitching in university english-medium classes
In multilingual societies, codeswitching is a daily occurrence, yet the use of students' 1st language in the EFL classroom has been discouraged. This volume examines current theoretical work on codeswitching and the convergence and divergence between university language teachers' beliefs about co...
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First language use in second and foreign language learning
This book focuses on the use of the L1 in communicative or immersion-type classrooms. Through the intersection of theory, practice, curriculum and policy, the book calls for a reconceptualization of codeswitching as something that is inherently linked with bilingual codeswitching and something th...
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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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Discourse, identity, and china's internal migration
Migrant workers are crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use and identity construction of the children of internal migrants is innovative both in the context it studies and the scalar structure of discursive i...
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A post-liberal approach to language policy in education
This provocative book examines the strengths and weaknesses of liberal political theory to inform language policy in a way that promotes individual autonomy while not reifying 'language'. Important topics of discussion include the language/identity link, language rights, language varieties, and a...
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Children's additional language learning in instructional settings
This book provides an overview of additional language learning development and pedagogy among young children who are learning a language in addition to their home language(s). It integrates second language development theories and research findings with practice and will be invaluable to all thos...
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Intensive exposure experiences in second language learning
This volume brings together studies from learning contexts that provide intensive exposure to the target language: naturalistic immersion (immigration and study abroad), intensive instruction, and informal intensive environments in foreign language settings. Its chapters highlight the unique role...
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Translanguaging and english as a lingua franca in the plurilingual classroom
This book explores the use of multilingual practices such as translanguaging, code-switching and stylization by speakers of less commonly taught languages. It investigates how students use these languages alongside English as a lingua franca to participate in classroom tasks and social interactio...
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Researching language teacher cognition and practice
This book presents a wide range of methodological perspectives on researching what teachers think and do in language teaching. It contains chapters by the editors and a leading expert in teacher cognition, as well as eight case studies by new researchers, accompanied by commentaries by internatio...
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Translanguaging and epistemological decentring in higher education and research
Using data from universities in Asia, Central and North America, Europe and the Maghreb, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring, and argues that decentring cannot happen until learners are able to identify which sorts of centring dynam...
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Learning to read and write in the multilingual family
This book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home e...
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Fighters, girls and other identities
This book examines how youths at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The author relates analyses of their interactions to discussions of relevance to the sociology of sports, anthropology and education, ultimately providing an analy...
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English teaching and evangelical mission
This book offers a critical examination of the use of English Language Teaching as a platform for evangelical Christian mission work. It presents an in-depth study of a language school in Poland in which Bible-based curriculum was employed. The book looks in detail at a key question faced by TEFL...
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Cultural studies in foreign language education
This book deals with the acquisition of understanding of foreign cultures and peoples. It is also a study of the philosophy and purpose of language teaching in all its facets, in the context of foreign language teaching in secondary education. It attempts to raise awareness of the full educationa...
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English - a changing medium for education
The widespread use of English as an International Language has given rise to questions such as what counts as 'Standard English' and 'literacy'. This book provides a scholarly and research-based discussion on how English in education can be (re)conceptualized and understood in light of the dynami...
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Dynamics of a social language learning community
This book presents an in-depth look at a social language learning space within a university context. Drawing on the literature from identity in second language learning, communities of practice and learner beliefs, it demonstrates how psychological phenomena shape a space and how a learning space...
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Solutions for the assessment of bilinguals
This book presents solutions for the evaluation of language abilities and proficiency in multilingual speakers – and by extension, the evaluation of their cognitive and academic abilities. It brings together researchers working in a variety of bilingual settings to discuss critical matters centra...
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Teaching and learning third languages
Contributing to emerging research on third language acquisition, this book presents readers with a practical guide to understanding how these languages are processed, learned and taught. With examples from a range of learning contexts, it emphasises the role of teachers as bridges between educati...
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Identity, motivation and autonomy in language learning
In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in order to investigate the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning.
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Insights into non-native vocabulary teaching and learning
This book brings together a collection of new studies on different aspects of vocabulary teaching and learning. The contributions present the results of original empirical research in the field by well-known scholars as well as some comprehensive reviews.
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Social consequences of testing for language-minoritized bilinguals in the united states
This book provides a cohesive historical narrative of the testing of language-minoritized bilinguals in the United States that centers the test-takers’ experiences. It demonstrates how testing has contributed to the historic, systemic marginalization of language-minoritized bilinguals and encoura...
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Language and aging in multilingual contexts
In this book different aspects of language and aging are discussed. While language spoken by and language spoken with elderly people have been treated as different areas of research, it is argued here that from a dynamical system perspective the two are closely interrelated.
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Statehood, scale and hierarchy
Against the background of language and nation formation in Indonesia, this book demonstrates how language planning is inseparable from the broader actions of the state, and how postcolonial nationalism and globalization have had profound implications for language use and state actions to control it.
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Translation and religion
This book addresses the methods and motives for translating the central texts of the world’s religions and investigates a range of translation challenges specific to the unique nature of these writings. Translation theory underpins the methodology for the analysis of various scriptures and examin...
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Language planning and policy in europe, vol. 3
This volume covers the language situation in The Baltic States, Ireland and Italy 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...
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Thinking and speaking in two languages
Until recently, the history of debates about language and thought has been a history of thinking of language in the singular. The purpose of this volume is to reverse this trend and to begin unlocking the mysteries surrounding thinking and speaking in bi- and multilingual speakers.
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A linguistic approach to the study of dyslexia
This volume contributes to the growing body of research on developmental dyslexia, focusing on the behavioural manifestations of the disorder at different levels of the language system. It presents data from experimental and applied research and their applications in language teaching, rehabilita...
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An introductory reader to the writings of jim cummins
The contribution of Jim Cummins to bilingualism and bilingual education has been substantial and profound. This reader provides a comprehensive compilation of his most important and influential texts. The book also provides a detailed biographical introduction and a commentary on the growth of id...
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Gendered identities and immigrant language learning
This ethnographic study of a California English as a Second Language program explores how the gendered life experiences of immigrant adults shape their participation in both the English language classroom and the education of their children, within the contemporary sociohistorical context of Lati...
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Annotated texts for translation
This book presents a specific framework for dealing with recurring translation problems in a number of genres that are frequently translated. On the basis of illustrative sample texts, the decisions taken in the production of the target texts are commented on in the light of the specified transla...
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Transformative translanguaging espacios
This book shows the transformative power of placing translanguaging at the center of teaching and learning. It shows how the centering of racialized Latinx bilingual students, including their knowledge systems and cultural and linguistic practices, transforms the monolingual-white supremacy ideol...
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English pronunciation teaching
This book presents and discusses theoretical and practical perspectives on English pronunciation theory, research and practice in order to establish evidence-based pronunciation teaching models, teaching and research priorities, and recommendations for best practices in teaching English pronuncia...
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The multilingual citizen
In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the authors develop a notion of Linguistic Citizenship, highlighting practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over language, and detailing ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that oft...
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Multilingual classrooms for young children in the uk
This book is a call to action for educators, policymakers and parents, combining practical strategies with research-based insights to support its readers in advocating for multilingual education. It will enable teachers to combine technological innovations and the linguistic resources of their co...
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Language minority students in the mainstream classroom
This 2nd edition provides first-hand information on culturally and linguistically diverse students as well as instructional strategies in the content areas of reading, writing, science, social studies and maths. It provides theory and practical strategies to make content of lessons relevant and u...
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The care and education of young bilinguals
This text is a comprehensive introduction for all professionals working with bilingual children. For speech therapists, doctors, psychologists, counsellors, teachers, special needs personnel, the book addresses important issues at a practical level.
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Morphosyntactic issues in second language acquisition
This volume examines different aspects of morphosyntactic development of bilingual language learners/users such as language transfer, syntactic processing, morphology and the pragmatics of language among others. The book explores the interface between research findings and pedagogy of foreign lan...
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Critical theory and classroom talk
In this book, Young summarises critical learning theory, shows its relationship to educational research, particularly research on classroom communication, and demonstrates its value for classroom teachers in a variety of 'real-life' classrooms.
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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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Language curriculum design and socialisation
This book fills a gap in language education through the application of social theory to curriculum design. It describes an integrated theoretical framework for curriculum design and presents examples of text-based curriculum. It provides a curriculum model for teaching children and adults in diff...
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Spirituality and english language teaching
This collection of 16 reflective accounts and data-driven studies explores the interrelationship of religious identity and English Language Teaching (ELT). It addresses the ways in which faith and ELT intersect in the realms of teacher identity, pedagogy, and the context and content of ELT.
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Language standardization and language variation in multilingual contexts
This book breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standardization through its focus on Asia and in the attention paid to multilingual contexts. The chapters add to our understanding of the ways in which multilingualism is implicated in language standardization, as well as the imp...
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Authenticity, language and interaction in second language contexts
This book addresses issues of authenticity and interaction in second language contexts from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Contributions focus on authenticity as it relates to patterns of language and meaning, and to agency, identity and culture, and examines authenticity...
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Emerging self-identities and emotion in foreign language learning
This book uses a narrative-oriented approach to shed light on the processes of identity construction among Japanese university students of English. It offers a unique perspective on the role of experience, emotions, social and environmental affordances in shaping their personal orientations to En...
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Translanguaging, coloniality and decolonial cracks
In this ethnography of bilingual science learning, the author connects microanalyses of classroom discourse to broader themes of de/coloniality in education. The author examines the linguistic landscape of the school and the attitudes of staff and students which produce both coloniality and crack...
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Teaching english as an international language
Drawing on both Western and Asian theoretical frameworks, this book showcases the complexity of EIL teachers’ roles as their identities are challenged by values and practices that seem contradictory to their own. It examines how their identities are constantly constructed and reconstituted throug...
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Online communication in a second language
This book examines the use of social computer mediated communication with speakers of Japanese via longitudinal case studies of up to four years. Through the analysis of over 2,000 instances of online communication, in addition to extensive interviews, the book explores opportunities for language...
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Early instructed second language acquisition
This book examines which factors lead to success in foreign language learning at an early age in instructional settings. The studies investigate learners aged between three and ten, their parents and teachers, and focus on the development of speaking and reading skills and how attitudes and motiv...
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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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Key topics in second language acquisition
This textbook offers an introductory overview of eight hotly-debated topics in second language acquisition research. It offers a glimpse of how SLA researchers have tried to answer common questions about second language acquisition rather than being a comprehensive introduction to SLA research.
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Creating experiential learning opportunities for language learners
This book highlights research-based innovations in experiential learning in domestic settings, with a particular spotlight on the US context. It focuses on three experiential learning contexts: community engagement experiences, professional engagement experiences and other unique experiential con...
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The legal recognition of sign languages
This book presents the first comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, their impacts and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. Each chapter is grounded in a collaborative writing approach between deaf and hearing scholars and activists involved in legislati...
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Theorizing and analyzing language teacher agency
This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations through a variety of types of empirical data. It also demonstrates the use of different methodologies to analyze the multidimensional, dynamic ...
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Language teachers studying abroad
This book focuses on the study abroad experiences of pre-service and in-service language teachers and language teacher educators, discussing their psychological experiences in cognitive, affective and social terms.
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Does the writing workshop still work?
This book explores the effectiveness of the writing workshop in the Creative Writing classroom,going beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to consider alternative pedagogical models. The needs of a growing and diverse student population are central to the contributors' consider...
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Multilingual teaching
This book lays out a radical new approach for teaching in multilingual classrooms: to include everyone, including those who already speak the school language, in multilingual pedagogy. The author proposes Linguistically Appropriate Practice Plus, a new resource to help teachers support the langua...
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Language planning and policy in latin america, vol. 1
This volume covers the language situation in Ecuador, Mexico and Paraguay, 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 non-indi...
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Optimizing language learners’ nonverbal behavior
This book highlights the pivotal role that nonverbal behavior plays in target language communication, affect and cognition. It integrates research tenets and video demonstrations of nonverbal behavior with structured activities that will guide teachers and learners to capitalize on the nonverbal ...
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The intercultural dynamics of multicultural working
This book is a theoretical and practical discussion of intercultural communication and interaction and is aimed at academic courses as well as professional development programmes. It focuses, from a critical perspective, on the intercultural dynamics established between the members of multicultur...
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Investigating tasks in formal language learning
This book brings together research that makes use of tasks to examine oral interaction, written production, vocabulary and reading, lexical innovation and pragmatics in different formal language learning contexts and in different languages (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish).
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Early learning and teaching of english
This book offers an insight into the dynamics and complexities of learning and teaching English as a foreign language at primary level.It presents the findings of longitudinal research undertaken in Croatia and discusses their contribution to understanding EFL development in the young learner and...
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Culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms
The growing cultural, racial and linguistic diversity in schools has changed the face of language teaching in many countries. This book presents theory and research by a group of internationally recognised scholars who address the issues and challenges for teachers and their students in increasin...
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Language learning and teaching in a multilingual world
This book proposes a flexible and adaptive framework for designing and implementing language learning environments and tasks, which will be useful for practitioners working in classrooms where many languages are already spoken. The framework is based on a review of current research and an examina...
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Language learning motivation in japan
This book synthesises current theory and research on L2 motivation in the EFL Japanese context covering topics such as the issues of cultural identity, demotivation, language communities, positive psychology, possible L2 selves and internationalisation within a key EFL context.
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Translating milan kundera
This book uses new archival research to view the wider cultural scope of the translation issue involving the controversies surrounding Kundera’s translated novels. It focuses on the language of the novels, Kundera’s ‘lost’ works, writing as translation, interpretation, exile, censorship and the s...
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Bilingual families
This insightful, practical book can be used as a stand-alone guide for families on their language journey, or as an accompaniment to the author’s successful seminars for families and schools. Learn from the author’s extensive experience of helping and advising families on how to raise their child...
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A history of bilingual education in the us
This book traces a history of bilingual education in the US, unveiling the role of politics in policy development and implementation. It introduces readers to past systemic supports for creation of diverse bilingual educational programs and situates particular instances and phases of expansion an...
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Teaching adult immigrants with limited formal education
This book aims to empower teachers working with adult migrants who have had little or no prior formal schooling, and give them the information and skills that they need to reach the highest possible levels of literacy in their new languages.
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Working memory in second language acquisition and processing
This book offers a discussion of theoretical and methodological issues concerning the pivotal role of working memory in second language learning and processing. It includes theoretical chapters, empirical studies providing original data and new insights into the topic, and commentary chapters whi...
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Developing and evaluating quality bilingual practices in higher education
This book provides an overview and evaluation of the quality of bilingual education found in internationalised higher education institutions. Its authors focus on the multifaceted roles that language(s) play in these growing multilingual spaces and analyse and identify the many factors that accou...
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Teachers as mediators in the foreign language classroom
This book uses examples of classroom interaction to reveal how teachers of languages act as intercultural mediators and the implications of this for practice. The book offers an account of what teachers are thinking, feeling and doing as they enact an intercultural perspective on language teachin...
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Willingness to communicate, multilingualism and interactions in community contexts
This book examines the communication behaviours of individuals in multilingual community contexts. Using a complexity lens and the presentation of a revised 3D pyramid model, the authors demonstrate the dynamic nature of willingness to communicate over time and shed new light on processes that af...
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Agency in the peripheries of language revitalisation
This book addresses the question of agency in the revitalisation of minoritised languages in Europe. The chapters investigate how grassroots actors shape revitalisation, and how individuals and groups negotiate historical factors, motivations, and institutionalised initiatives and policies in a v...
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Sociocultural theory in second language education
This textbook introduces the reader to concepts of sociocultural theory, through a series of narratives illuminating key concepts of the theory. This 2nd edition references recent studies that provide important instances of Vygotskian sociocultural theory in second language education and research...
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Multiple perspectives on the self in sla
This collection of papers brings together a diverse range of conceptualisations of the self in the domain of second language acquisition and foreign language learning. The volume attempts to unite a fragmented field and provides a thorough overview of the ways in which the self can be conceptuali...
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Going performative in intercultural education
Contributors from various contexts explore the extent to which performative approaches, emphasising the role of the body as a learning medium, can achieve deep intercultural learning and create rich opportunities for intercultural encounters that transport students beyond the parameters of conven...
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Child language disability vol.2
Rising recognition of semantic and pragmatic disabilities in children with specific language impairment has created a demand for a satisfactory framework and suitable methods for assessment and remediation. This book reports on progress in research and practice in a form accessible to professiona...
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Portraits of the l2 user
This book treats second language users in their own right rather than as failed native speakers. It describes a range of psychological and linguistic approaches to diverse topics about L2 users. It thus provides an innovative overview of current second language acquisition theories, results and m...
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Teaching and learning in multilingual contexts
It is clearly illogical to search for one good, universal solution for multilingual education when educational contexts differ so widely due to demographic and social factors. The studies in this volume seek to investigate not only whether certain solutions and practices are 'good', but also when...
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Language, education and neoliberalism
This book presents an empirical account of how neoliberal ideas are adopted on the ground by different actors in different educational settings. It aims to produce a complex understanding of how neoliberal rationalities are articulated within locally anchored and historical regimes of knowledge o...
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Connecting school and the multilingual home
This book emphasises the importance of engaging multilingual families in school life to support students’ academic achievement and overall wellbeing. Although the book examines rural settings and the needs of rural educators and families, the information is of use to all educators aiming to suppo...
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Local languaging, literacy and multilingualism in a west african society
This book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practices against the background of heightened globalisation. Juffermans presents an ethnographic study of The Gambia, arguing that language should be conceptualised as a verb (languaging) rather than a c...
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New horizons in prescriptivism research
The chapters in this book address three main strands in ongoing scholarly work on prescriptivism: language, literary and scripted texts, and speech communities. Collectively, the chapters contextualise the role of prescriptivism in history as well as at the present time.
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The global-local interface and hybridity
This book seeks to bring hybrid language practices to the center of discussions about English as a global language. It reveals how local linguistic resources and practices are involved in the refashioning of identities in a variety of cross-cultural and geographical contexts, and illustrates hybr...
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Travel notes from the new literacy studies
This book joins two important fields, that of literacy and multimodality, with a focus on local and global literacies. Chapters include work on media, popular culture and literacy, weblogs, global and local crossings, in and out of educational settings in such locations as the US, the UK, South A...
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Motivation, autonomy and emotions in foreign language learning
This book highlights the roles of individual difference variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students’ and the teachers’ perspectives. The comparative analysis of these two datasets yields interactional results that have the potential to shape classroom learnin...
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Translation, globalisation and localisation
This is the first volume of translation studies by leading Chinese scholars published in the English speaking world. It deals with translation studies in a global/local context and from a Chinese perspective. Topics such as globalisation, postcolonial theory, diaspora writing and polysystem theor...
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Aspiring to be global
This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. It explores the contingencies and tensions in the creation of a ‘global village’ and reveals ambivalent struggles inher...
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