Four chinese ells

This book helps K-12 teachers underst& the school experiences of Chinese English Language Learners (ELLs) by documenting their transitions into American schools. It highlights their diverse backgrounds & schooling experiences, offering insights for better support. The book is also useful ...

Inquiries into literacy learning and cultural competencies in a world of borders

This book aims to move education beyond traditional language study and cultural awareness to more inclusive global interactions. It emphasizes the living nature of language and its role in culture, promoting literacy learning and cultural competence. Practical approaches for engaging learners of ...

Perspektiven linguistischer sprachkritik

This volume provides a collection of new perspectives on linguistic aspects of language criticism. It aims to offer a systematic account of the linguistic dimensions of all complex actions and discourses that can be the subject of critical language theory, which tries to link language and society...

A guide to proper usage of spoken chinese

This book is intended as a companion reference work to Chinese textbooks for beginners. It uses a comparative approach to address over 200 points of grammar and vocabulary that frequently present difficulties to students of Chinese. This volume serves as an easy and efficient reference for teache...

Fluency in l2 learning and use

This interdisciplinary book brings together a selection of theoretical and empirical approaches to second language (L2) fluency. The volume includes chapters approaching fluency from an SLA perspective and integrates perspectives from related fields, such as psycholinguistics, sign language studi...

Developing pronunciation teaching for international intelligibility

This book offers principled guidance for teachers and researchers in World English(es) and English as a Lingua Franca contexts on developing a feature-based approach to teaching English pronunciation for international intelligibility. Using Hong Kong English as a case study, it offers inquiry tas...

A framework for task-based learning and teaching

This new edition builds on Jane Willis’s classic textbook to reflect the changing needs and priorities of language teachers in today’s classrooms. The book has been revised and expanded to reflect the widespread use of technology and the internet in language classrooms, as well as recent debates ...

Mind matters in sla

This book examines key issues in theories of what language is and what happens in the mind during second language acquisition. Chapters provide cutting-edge insights and new empirical findings spanning formal and cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and second language development, to underst...

Intersectionality and the discursive construction of english teacher identities in japan

This book aims to disrupt the native-speaker/non-native-speaker binary through a study of the construction of English teacher identities in Japan. The book suggests that macro discourses in the Japanese context, as well as institutional processes, were powerful forces in perpetuating native-speak...

Languages, cultures and schools

This book provides an overview of community/heritage language schools and how they interact with mainstream education. It offers both an in-depth study of this type of education in New South Wales, Australia, and insights that will be of use in language education across the world.

A multilingual approach to educational linguistics

Preparing educators for the multilingual classroom, this book introduces key linguistic concepts with examples from varied educational settings. It equips educators with the necessary knowledge of language for effective multilingual and multimodal learning and highlights practical applications.

Diversity and inclusivity in english language education

This book addresses the twin themes of diversity and inclusivity in classrooms where English is taught as a foreign, second, additional or international language. The chapters cover theory, empirical research, and practice in order to support all stakeholders who wish to make English language edu...

Input matters in sla

This volume bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together well-known and new authors to discuss a topic of mutual interest to second language researchers and teachers alike: input. Reader-friendly chapters offer a range of existing and new perspectives on input in morphology, s...

Peer interaction in the foreign language classroom

This book highlights the role of peer interaction in the foreign language (FL) classroom and explores the different factors and contexts that mediate its effect on target language use and development. Taking different methodological approaches, all chapters are centred on FL classroom practice an...

Secondary school dual language immersion

This book examines the effectiveness of dual language immersion programs in secondary schools through analysis of the views of teachers, parents and students, classroom interactions and learners’ narrative development. Highlighting weaknesses in the curriculum, it advocates for inclusion of herit...

Multilingual family language policy and wellbeing

This book investigates transnational families’ experiences in managing national minority and majority languages alongside a foreign language at home. It identifies parents’ ideological language motivations and family language policy strategies, and considers the impact of these strategies on chil...

Bodies, matter and language in transnational english teachers’ storying

This book investigates the translingual pedagogies of women and queer/non-binary transnational teachers of English in three programs in the US and Spain. The author demonstrates how they build and cultivate connections within, with communities and with the environment around them, transgressing b...

Grand conversations, thoughtful responses

Grand Conversations, Thoughtful Responses is built upon the premise that all students can become active, independent, thoughtful readers. The structures and strategies in this book are proven to help students develop confidence and competence in their reading. Student engagement with text soars t...

Resurgence

★ Starred selection for CCBC's Best Books Ideal for Teachers 2023!Resurgence is an inspiring collection of contemporary Indigenous poetry, art, and narratives that guides K–12 educators in bridging existing curricula with Indigenous voices and pedagogies. In this first book in the Footbridge Seri...

Renewal

Renewal, the second book in the Footbridge series, guides K–12 educators in bringing Indigenous voices and the philosophy, principles, and practices of Indigenous land-based education into their teaching. This text encourages educators to: respectfully renew their own relationships with land dir...

Spoken marathi, book 1

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...

Language testing reconsidered

Language Testing Reconsidered provides a critical update on major issues that have engaged the field of language testing since its inception. Anyone who is working in, studying or teaching language testing should have a copy of this book. The information, discussions, and reflections offered with...

The pilgrim and the bee

We conventionally understand the book as a vessel for words, a place where the reader goes to have a private experience with written language. But readers' relationships with books are much more complex. In The Pilgrim and the Bee, Matthew P. Brown examines book culture and the rituals of reading...

Empathy in the reading and teaching of english literature

Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of English Literature explores the educational potential of empathy for literary studies across a historical, generic and geographic continuum. The book draws on interdisciplinary methodologies to offer new readings of popularly taught literary texts and discus...

Resources for south asian language studies in the united states

Leo tolstoy’s writings for young children

This volume is the very first annotated translation of all the titled stories included in the New ABC Book and in Tolstoy’s four Primers for Reading. There are approximately 300 of these pieces, ranging in length from a few sentences to a few pages, classified as Fables, Fairy tales, Stories, His...

Dictionary of russian personal names

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...

Plotting the reading experience

Essays from international contributors on the experiences of reading: what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read, under what kinds of conditions, what drives people to read, and conversely, what gets individual and groups of readers stopped in their pursuit of the rewards ...

Tesol zip guide: reading strategies for multilingual learners of english (pack of 25)

In TESOL Zip Guide: Reading Strategies for Multilingual Learners of English, busy classroom teachers of multilingual learners of English will find activities, scaffolds, and strategies for enhancing their students' reading comprehension, creating autonomous learners, and effectively assessing rea...

Tesol zip guide: reading strategies for multilingual learners of english

In TESOL Zip Guide: Reading Strategies for Multilingual Learners of English, busy classroom teachers of multilingual learners of English will find activities, scaffolds, and strategies for enhancing their students' reading comprehension, creating autonomous learners, and effectively assessing rea...

Teaching reading, revised edition

Do you think that taking their own vocabulary tests helps students learn the words? This reflective question and many others await your discussion and analysis in this revised edition of TESOL Press’s best-selling Teaching Reading, which explores different approaches to teaching reading in secon...

The reader

Celebrate the quiet moments with The Reader, a photography book that beautifully captures people from around the world lost in the timeless act of reading.Through stunning, intimate images from 19 talented photographers, The Reader showcases readers in a wide variety of settings, from cozy cafes ...

The gifts of reading for the next generation

Inspired by Robert Macfarlane and curated by Jennie Orchard, an anthology of essays about the joys of giving books to children and young people, from some of the world’s most beloved writers. Remember the books that shaped your childhood, sparked your imagination, and ignited a lifelong love of r...

Serbocroatian-english dictionary

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...

Introductory hindi readings

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...

Understanding the reading needs of english language learners

English language learners in the United States are expected to read "at grade level" in all their courses after just a single year of ESL classes, despite the fact that many enter the U.S. school system without adequate preparation. Because these students must read well in all subject areas, all...

The art of reading

A beautiful celebratory tribute to the powers of one of our most undervalued skills.  ‘What you are doing right now is, cosmically speaking, against the odds.’ As young children, we are taught to read, but soon go on to forget just how miraculous a process it is, this turning of scratches and dot...

The usefulness of the useless

A treatise on the fundamental importance of the liberal arts and the deep damage to humanity caused by their neglect.

So many books, 2nd edition

A charming new edition of a much-loved book about books“A playful celebrant of literary proliferation.”—New Yorker In So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid offers his observations on the literary condition: a highly original analysis of the predicament that readers, authors, publishers, booksellers, librar...

10 publishing myths

10 Publishing Myths offers insights that every author needs to succeed in publishing.

Expert speaker

Expert Speaker helps readers to amplify their messages and take control over the next big stage of their career.

Literacy work in the reign of human capital

Analyzes the role of literacy work as a significant contributor to the formation of human capital in the workplace and in everyday practices .

Magia portátil: una historia alternativa de los libros y sus lectores

Una historia de los libros como objeto físico y sobre el poder que ejercen sobre nosotros.Un relato fascinante, en ocasiones soslayado,del libro en manos humanas, de lassensaciones y los hábitos que generaen contacto con los lectores.Los libros son importantes por las palabras que contienen,pero ...

Conocimiento ilimitado: potencia tu inteligencia, practica la lectura rápida y memoriza lo imposible / unlimited knowledge

Descubre las técnicas de aprendizaje más eficaces de la mano del subcampeón mundial de lectura rápida. ¿Quién no se ha planteado alguna vez iniciarse en otra profesión? ¿Reemprender sus estudios? ¿Dominar una lengua extranjera? ¿Trabajar de forma más eficiente y mejorar sus competencias profesio...

Aprende a leer con las fantasticotas 1. vera y la sorpresa de la pecera / learn how to read with las fantasticotas 1

¡La serie con la que los más pequeños disfrutarán de la lectura! APRENDE A LEER EN LETRA MAYÚSCULA CON LAS FANTASTICOTAS. ¡SON MUCHO MÁS QUE MASCOTAS! Vera anda algo inquieta,¡estar en casa es una broma!Pero pronto dejará de estar aburrida,su abuelo le ha preparado una sorpresa ¡muy divertida! Co...

The write track

A personal and practical look at Wylies freelance experience, recounting how she made it from uncertainty to confidence as a veteran writer.

Born-digital texts in the english language classroom

This book is the first to focus specifically on born-digital texts in EFL teaching, uniting innovative scholarship with practical classroom applications. The book develops a theoretically sound framework for curriculum, materials and methods design that takes into account the growing ubiquity of ...

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...

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...

Insights into disciplinary literacies

This book presents empirical evidence of the academic and disciplinary literacies that learners engage with in educational contexts. The chapters focus on the languages of schooling (in first, second or foreign language contexts) across primary, secondary and higher education.

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 ...

The translation of children's literature

Research across a number of disciplines has in recent years contributed to a rapidly developing knowledge and understanding of the cross-cultural transformation and reception of children’s literature. This book gathers together essays published during the last 30 years on the history, challenges ...

The observation protocol for academic literacies

This book presents a validated observation instrument to support and develop the pedagogic expertise of teachers of English Learners in US schools. With real examples of classroom observations, it offers teachers, researchers and policymakers a tool for professional development, classroom researc...

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...

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.

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...

Language and literacy in social practice

This volume contains a collection of seminal articles and recent research which are important reading for anyone wanting to understand current theoretical developments within the field of language and literacy studies.

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...

Decolonizing literacy

Drawing from case studies of marginalized individuals in Mexico and the U.S., this book explores the colonizing concept of illiteracy, as well as how the long social history of conquest and colonization, plunder and globalization, is inscribed in the personal histories of today’s global outcasts.

Dyslexia in the foreign language classroom

This book addresses specific learning difficulties in reading and spelling – developmental dyslexia. Set in the cross-linguistic context, it presents issues surrounding dyslexia from the perspective of a foreign language teacher. It is intended to serve as a reference book for those involved in f...

Fossilization in adult second language acquisition

This book addresses the issue of fossilization in relation to a key question in SLA research, which is: why are learners, adults in particular, unable to develop the level of competence they have aspired to in spite of continuous and sustained exposure to the target language, adequate motivation ...

Age and the acquisition of english as a foreign language

This book provides an overview of current research on the age factor in foreign language learning, addressing issues, which are critical for language planning. It presents research on foreign language learning within bilingual communities in formal instruction settings focussing on syntax, phonol...

Risk in academic writing

This book brings together a variety of voices - including students and teachers, journal editors and authors - to interrogate the notion of risk in academic writing. Risk-taking is viewed as a productive force, and one that can be used to challenge the silences and erasures inherent in academic t...

Worlds of literacy

The idea behind this book is that in complex societies like our own there are different worlds of literacy that exist side by side. This book presents a range of case studies describing some of these worlds of literacy and is carefully organised by theme, so as to bring out both the differences a...

The multiliteracies classroom

This book explores the challenges and rewards of engaging students in literacy learning through multimedia design. The first research of its kind, it applies key themes of critical sociology to multiliteracies, inspiring educators to envisage the changing shape of literacy research.

Grassroots literacy and the written record

This book examines how asbestos activists living in remote rural villages in South Africa activated metropolitan resources of representation at the grassroots level in a quest for justice and restitution for the catastrophic effects on their lives caused by the asbestos industry. 

Literacy theories for the digital age

This book critically reviews essential approaches to literacy research and practice in the digital age while showing the relationships between these vital paradigms. This indispensable volume also introduces sensory literacies – a new approach with powerful potential for today's learning environm...

Age, accent and experience in second language acquisition

This work critically addresses the age debate in SLA, presenting an in-depth study of factors that predict foreign accent. Quantitative and qualitative analyses confirm that cognitive, social and psychological factors contribute to attainment, and that biological influences must be considered alo...

The anthem dictionary of literary terms and theory

Thorough on the essentials and generous in its intellectual scope, 'The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory' is a guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and readers of English literature today.

A social history of literacy in japan

Despite the great interest in and the availability of enormous literature about education in Japan, this book is a translation of the first work written in Japanese on the history of literacy in Japan. The authors are each accomplished scholars of Japanese educational history, and each provides s...

The language experience approach and the science of literacy instruction

This book considers Russell Stauffer’s Language Experience Approach (LEA), an approach that must be judged by its impact on student learning and not on the age of conception. The nature of wholistic teaching in early childhood and beyond is explored, and developmental maturation for the different...

From ibn sina to sindbad

A unique textbook of guided readings from the great works of Arabic prose for advanced level students of Classical Arabic literature From Ibn Sina to Sindbad makes some of the greatest works of the Golden Age of Arab Civilization accessible to Arabic students at the mid- to high-advanced level o...

The rhetorical rise and demise of “democracy” in russian political discourse, volume 3

This volume examines the rhetorical development that occurred over the first two terms of Vladimir Putin’s tenure as president of Russia. During that time Putin abandoned any effort at integration with the West, turning toward Eurasia and promoting a mythical image of Russia as a singular geopoli...