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A practical guide for translators
Latest edition of the successful best-seller that views commercial translation from the translator’s and customer’s viewpoints.
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Language planning and policy: language planning in local contexts
Language problems potentially exist at all levels of human activity, including the local contexts of communities and institutions. This volume examines the ways in which language planning works as a local activity in a wide variety of contexts around the world and dealing with a wide range of lan...
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Teaching children online
What does best practice in online education look like? How can educators make use of the affordances offered by online environments to bring out the best in the children they teach? These questions are answered in this new textbook, written with experienced teachers, novice educators and teacher ...
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Critical reflections on research methods
This book explores the challenges involved in conducting research with members of minoritized communities. Through reflective accounts, contributors explore community-based collaborative work, and suggest important implications for applied linguistics, educational research and anthropological inv...
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Critical perspectives on global englishes in asia
This book addresses the incorporation of Global Englishes into language policy and curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practices, and focuses on a wide range of geographical and language contexts. It will be of interest to policymakers, curriculum developers and practitioner-researchers in the ar...
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Intercultural dialogue in practice
This book explores the wide-ranging terminology relevant to intercultural dialogue. It reports on a research project that explored the management of value judgment in foreign language education to overcome prejudice, which is a key dynamic in intercultural dialogue that brings many other factors ...
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International students' challenges, strategies and future vision
This book is one of the few empirical studies to capture an in-depth understanding of the study abroad experiences of newly-arrived international students in higher education. It closely examines their changing learning goals, underlying motivations and strategy uses during both short and long ac...
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Learning english at school
This revised edition discusses how insights from new materialism and posthumanism might be used in investigating second language learning and teaching in classrooms. With these new perspectives in mind, it updates the application of sociocultural theory to understanding how minority language back...
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Sociolinguistic perspectives on migration control
Each chapter in this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to ...
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Bilingual siblings
Taking a different perspective to traditional case studies on one bilingual child, this book discusses the whole family and the realities of life with two or more children and languages. This book explores language patterns and preferences as well as the effect of birth order and family size on l...
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Critical conversation analysis
This book presents the first collection of conversation analytic studies addressed exclusively to issues of inequality and injustice. The chapters produce a forensic analysis of how participants enact discriminatory ideologies, negotiate systemic power imbalances, and pursue social change in and ...
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The linguistic landscape of chinatown
This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds new light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this...
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Studies in immersion education
This book is a unique collection of research studies on French Immersion conducted from the authors' base as a research team in British Columbia, Canada. It serves as an important resource for educators and policymakers interested in the impact of immersion on educational policy, student outcomes...
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Growing up with three languages
This book is for parents who live in a foreign country and intend to raise their children in their own heritage language(s). It offers helpful suggestions for this challenging situation and provides useful strategies in the daily interactions between parents and children.
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Crosslinguistic influence in second language acquisition
This collection provides an unprecedented insight into current approaches to the phenomenon of crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in SLA. Chapters investigate a variety of issues, structures and languages from different viewpoints to provide new perspectives on theoretical and empirical issues in CLI.
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An anthology of bilingual child phonology
This book is an edited collection of phonological development studies that pertain to themes in child bilingualism. It comprises studies on protolanguage phonology, referring to the development of children’s autonomous linguistic systems from their first meaningful forms to complete cognitive and...
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The strategy factor in successful language learning
This book addresses fundamental questions regarding the relationships between successful language learning and strategy use and development, according to learner, situational or target variables. This new edition includes an analysis of recent literature, an update on the theoretical debate and a...
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Learning to be literate
This textbook introduces students to language in education policy, theory and practice in a multilingual world. Designed to be accessible to students from a wide range of disciplines, it explores multilingualism at the individual and societal level and its impact on literacy learning around the w...
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Alianzas familiares in multilingual education
Written in English and Spanish, this volume explores family engagement policy and practices, showcasing pedagogical, administrative and community-based efforts aimed at countering the traditional hierarchies of power that shape relationships between schools and families from culturally, linguisti...
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Race and ethnicity in english language teaching
This book examines racism and racialized discourses in the ELT profession in South Korea. The book argues that language teaching and learning is shaped by White normativity, an ideological commitment and a form of racialized discourse that comes from the social actions of those involved in the EL...
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Imagining multilingual schools
This book brings together visions and realities of multilingual schools throughout the world so as to examine the pedagogical, socioeducational and sociopolitical issues that impact on their development and success. It considers issues of multilingual schooling in different countries and for dive...
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Multilingualism and gendered immigrant identity
This book examines the intersectionality of gendered, religious identity among Muslim women in Catalonia, and illustrates how this identity is brokered through language use in a multilingual and diasporic context. It offers a unique lens through which we can further our understanding of the role ...
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Global issues in language, education and development
This book examines the role that language-in-education policy, historically, has played in shaping possibilities for development, within countries in the Sub-Saharan and South Asian regions. This discussion takes account also of the complex ways in which language, education and development, are l...
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Using film and media in the language classroom
This book demonstrates the advantages and impact of using film and audiovisual material in the language classroom. The chapters are evidence-based and address different levels and contexts of learning around the world. It will be of interest to practising teachers as well as those on teacher trai...
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Linguistic landscape
The book contains a collection of studies of the linguistic landscape - the use of written language on signs in the public sphere - in 5 different societies: Israel, Japan, Thailand, the Netherlands (Friesland) and Spain (Basque Country). All contributions focus on multilingualism in the social c...
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Contemporary language motivation theory
This book unites chapters from the leaders of the language learning motivation field and demonstrates how Gardner’s work is integral to a wide range of contemporary theoretical issues underlying the psychology of language. It deals with cutting-edge topics, providing a wealth of information for b...
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English for academic purposes
This book provides readers with a critical and comprehensive overview of the historical development and ongoing trajectory of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). It examines a wide range of crucial topics in EAP, concluding with a glimpse into the future as the author considers the threats posed...
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Focus on french as a foreign language
This book offers sharp new insights into the acquisition and use of French as a foreign language. The authors are specialists in their particular theoretical paradigms and focus on morphology, morpho-syntax, syntax, discourse, as well as fluency in the French interlanguage from beginners to advan...
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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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The cross-cultural parenting playbook
This book offers real-life stories, strategies and activities to help families raise cross-cultural kids. Based on interviews and lived experience, it explores how parents can use media to build strong cross-cultural identities, honor hybrid heritage, and navigate the joys and challenges of cross...
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On under-reported monolingual child phonology
This book compiles original studies investigating crosslinguistic child phonological development, that is, protolanguage phonology. The chapters address topics and issues not widely reported in the literature, including research on under-represented languages, as well as information that has rema...
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Research methods for complexity theory in applied linguistics
This accessible guide to Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) research presents practical methods and templates for how applied linguistics researchers can design and conduct research using the CDST framework and equips readers with the knowledge to ensure compatibility between empirical researc...
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Exploring the us language flagship program
The Language Flagship program provides opportunities for US undergraduate students in any specialization to reach a professional level of competence in a targeted second language by graduation. This volume highlights innovative practices that enable students to achieve this goal and explores the ...
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Equity in multilingual schools and communities
This book honors the impactful contributions of Guadalupe Valdés, focusing on three major areas of her work: languages and literacies in multilingual contexts, language development in schools and communities, and equity and access. Personal interludes from former students and colleagues add insig...
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Native-speakerism in japan
The relative status of native and non-native speaker language teachers within educational institutions has long been an issue worldwide but until recently, the voices of teachers articulating their own concerns have been rare. This innovative volume explores language-based forms of prejudice agai...
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The sociopolitics of english language teaching
This book explores the issues of the sociopolitical dimensions of English language teaching and how they are central to the English language professional. It presents these issues to practicing and aspiring teachers in order to raise awareness of the sociopolitical nature of English language teac...
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Key developments in bilingual education and bilingualism
This book celebrates 30 years of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, collating seminal contributions from the series. It explores research developments within child bilingualism, multilingual classrooms, immersion education and language policy, offering an essential overview for early career re...
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Motivation to learn multiple languages in japan
This longitudinal study of motivation in extremely successful learners of English and languages other than English provides unique insights into long-term language learning motivation. It reveals the various factors that sustain multiple language learning and stretches our understanding of motiva...
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New trends in crosslinguistic influence and multilingualism research
This book presents the latest developments in crosslinguistic influence (CLI) and multilingualism research. The contributors consider CLI in lexis, syntax, tense-aspect, morphology, phonology of multilingual production and link it to concepts such as redundancy, affordances, metalinguistic awaren...
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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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Language teachers, politics and cultures
This book explores the issues faced by foreign language teachers which are caused by the social and political changes of the contemporary world. The authors make recommendations as to how language teachers should face their social and political responsibilities in the education of young people in...
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Bilingual education in south america
This book presents an integrated vision of bilingual education in six South American nations: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru. It includes work carried out in minority as well as majority language contexts, referring to developments in the fields of indigenous, Deaf, and i...
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Fast-forwarding with audiovisual translation
This book shows some of the ways in which audiovisual translation (AVT) can be approached from an academic, professional and educational point of view. The studies provide a stimulating and thought-provoking account of some of the themes that are currently being researched in the field of AVT, wh...
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Language education in a changing world
This book considers the role of language education in a rapidly changing world. Drawing on their extensive experience in the field, the authors consider how changes in teacher education and student learning might lead to the development of the language competences and awareness needed for full an...
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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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Language planning and policy in asia, vol.1
This volume covers the language situation in Japan, Nepal and Taiwan 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-indigeno...
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Literacy, language and community publishing
This book brings together theoretical and practical debates from adult literacy and language education with those of creative writing and community publishing work. Illustrated by accounts of first-hand experience, each chapter focuses on the practical business of achieving good learning and deve...
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Preparing teachers to teach english as an international language
This book explores ways to prepare teachers to teach English as an International Language, and provides theoretically-grounded models for EIL-informed teacher education. It includes two chapters that present a theoretical approach to EIL teacher education, followed by descriptions of field-tested...
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English language teachers on the discursive faultlines
This book brings the voices of teachers into the debates about language ideologies and cultural pedagogies in English language teaching. Through interviews and classroom observations in Chile and California, this study compares the controversies around English as a global language with the simila...
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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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Crosslinguistic influence in multilinguals
This book connects the topics of third language acquisition, reverse transfer and the Interface Hypothesis. It reports on a study of Cantonese, English and French multilinguals in Hong Kong and investigates whether the acquisition and use of a later acquired language has an effect on the receptio...
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New insights into language anxiety
This book provides an overview of current theory, research and practice in the field of language anxiety and brings together a range of perspectives on this psychological construct in a single volume. Chapters show that language anxiety can be viewed as a complex and dynamic construct and can be ...
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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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From southern theory to decolonizing sociolinguistics
This book seeks to imagine a decolonized sociolinguistics. All the chapters are firmly grounded in southern approaches to knowledge production, and invite us to begin to decolonize ourselves and to rethink normative assumptions about everything from academic writing to research methods and langua...
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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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The pragmatics of translation
This book shows how translation is affected by pragmatic factors such as the acts performed by people when they use language. It is clearly of direct relevance to an understanding of translation and translators.
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What teachers need to know about language
This book shows what teachers need to know about language to work effectively with diverse students. It gives examples of the many aspects of teaching and learning in which language is a key, and it suggests how teacher education programs can help teachers gain the knowledge and skills they need ...
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Learning foreign languages in primary school
This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children in primary school settings. It covers issues that have been under-researched within this group of learners such as implicit/explicit learning, interaction, feedback provision, first language use, metalinguistic awareness...
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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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Language prescription
This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and met...
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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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Explorations of language transfer
This book brings together many insights about the influences of one language upon another in language learning. Its accessible discussions explore key concerns such as predictions of difficulty, the role of translation processes, the relation between comprehension and production, and implications...
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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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French words
This book seeks to approach the French vocabulary from as many angles as possible - showing how French words are constructed, the difficulties inherent in defining a word, the relationships words enter into, their origins, and recent trends in word formation. Examples and exercises are provided t...
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Managing diversity in education
Diversity (social, cultural, linguistic and ethnic) poses a challenge to educational systems. This book examines policy and its implications, pedagogical practice and responses to the challenge of diversity that go beyond the language of schooling. This volume will appeal to anyone involved in th...
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The multilingual reality
This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism from the perspectives of multilingual communities in the margins. Its comparative analysis of language-in-education policies and applications of multilingual education in diverse contexts shows some promises ...
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Volleyball – an ethnographic drama
In this book research in process and research findings are represented in a play script which brings vividly to life both ethnographic research methods and communication in the world of sport. This highly original book brings innovation and imagination to the representation of language in social ...
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Colonial temporality and writing education
This book examines colonial temporality and English writing education by analysing higher educational policies operating in China and Saudi Arabia. It explores the ways temporality shapes the wellbeing and practices of individual writing teachers and the ways they understand, resist and appropria...
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The creative writer's mind
The Creative Writer’s Mind is a book for creative writers: it sets out to cross the gap between creative writing and science, between the creative arts and cognitive research. It examines what cognitive psychology, neuroscience and literary studies can tell creative writers about the processes of...
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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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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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Teaching and learning language and culture
This book discusses the idea that cultural learning is an integral part of foreign language learning and offers a practical introduction to the issues by describing classroom practice, curriculum innovation and experimental courses. It also covers principles of methodology and problems in assessi...
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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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Teaching eal
This book offers an evidence-based guide to EAL for everyone who works with multilingual learners. It offers a concise introduction to the latest research underpinning three key areas of EAL practice: How children acquire additional languages How language works across the curriculum How you can...
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Early learning of modern foreign languages
Modern languages are taught to young learners at an increasingly early age, yet few studies focus on what is available to children in different contexts and classrooms. This book examines current research on young language learners and provides key insights into how young learners progress.
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Globally speaking
The volume examines the motives for lexical borrowing from English during the last century, the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments, and the extent of its integration into twelve languages representing several language families. Many of these absorbin...
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Language ideology, policy and planning in peru
This book explores the role that the High Academy of the Quechua Language plays in language policy and planning, and revitalization efforts for Quechua in the Andean region. This book would appeal to researchers of the Quechua language, and those studying Indigenous language policy and planning, ...
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Decolonising multilingualism
In this groundbreaking text, Alison Phipps pulls together ethical approaches to researching multilingually in contexts of pain, conflict and crisis; the position of the researcher; and the question of multilingualism and anglonormativity. It is both global and local in scale, ranging from Scotlan...
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The languages of nation
This book explores research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives on both institutional and informal mechanisms of prescriptivism, our contribut...
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Spanish so white
Written specifically for secondary and post-secondary teachers who identify as White, second language learners of Spanish, Spanish So White will support the development of language education that centers a racially dynamic Spanish-speaking world and challenges interpersonal and institutional form...
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Disinventing and reconstituting languages
This book questions assumptions about the nature of language. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, the authors argue that unless we change the ways in which languages are taught and conceptualized, language studies will not be able to impro...
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Gender, neoliberalism and distinction through linguistic capital
This book presents the narratives of four Taiwanese young women, all proficient in English, set against the background of the dynamics of multilingualism in Taiwan. It chronicles their strategies and struggles when utilizing cultural goods – in this case their linguistic resources – to differenti...
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Second language creative writers
This book elicits L2 creative writers’ own perspectives of their life histories through the form of interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, and investigates the writers’ emerging writing processes. It integrates socioculturalist L2 identity studies with the typically cognitivist proces...
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Understanding language use in the classroom
A proper understanding of academic English and how to use it is crucial for success in college, and yet students face multiple obstacles in acquiring this new 'code'. In this expanded edition, PowerPoint presentations and instructor materials are included to help educators engage students in this...
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Using tasks in second language teaching
This book examines the use of tasks in second language instruction in a variety of international contexts, and addresses the need for a better understanding of how tasks are used in teaching and program-level decision-making. The chapters consider the benefits and challenges that teachers, progra...
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Global tesol for the 21st century
This book explores the impact of the spread of English on language teaching and learning. It provides a framework for change in the way English is taught to better reflect global realities and to embrace current research. The book is essential reading for postgraduate researchers, teachers and te...
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Providing health care in the context of language barriers
Global migration continues to increase, and with it linguistic diversity. This presents obvious challenges for both healthcare provider and patient, and the chapters in this volume represent international perspectives on language barriers in health care. Solutions and approaches, as well as the i...
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Fictional linguistic landscapes
This book explores how fan practices, such as fan art and fan fiction, and linguistic landscapes – the language surrounding us in everyday contexts – can be integrated into foreign language teaching. The book represents a step forward in EFL and TESOL pedagogy, making language learning relevant t...
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Measuring second language pragmatic competence
Extending earlier work on grammar, this book investigates the development of tests measuring second language learners’ implicit and explicit pragmatic abilities in English. It reports detailed analyses of the use of the tests with two groups of learners and in studies investigating study abroad a...
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Lau v. nichols and chinese american language rights
This book employs a narrative policy portraiture approach to recenter the stories of those involved in the Lau v. Nichols court case. It brings Chinese and Chinese American voices to the forefront, filling a significant gap in narration, representation and retrospective research within language p...
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New perspectives on transfer in second language learning
This book provides a comprehensive and multidimensional examination of transfer in second language acquisition. It brings theoretical analyses together with work based on empirical observation. Chapters consider lexical, syntactic, phonological and cognitive perspectives on language transfer.
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Second language lexical processes
The book contains studies on L2 lexical processes based on empirical findings by authors mostly from Central Europe. Questions of integration, storage, vocabulary acquisition and assessment, word retrieval and lexical access are the focus of the studies, which include reference to language users ...
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Growing up with languages
Primarily aimed as a practical resource for parents, but also of interest to students and researchers because of its unique content, this book includes recollections of and advice on many of the common issues or dilemmas that arise in multilingual families.
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