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Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education
This book focuses on narrowing the gap between the often conflicting theoretical and practical imperatives faced by language teachers in an internationalised higher education context. It provides conceptual discussions of emerging critical intercultural language pedagogies as well as empirical ac...
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Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance
This book documents a decade of life and language use in a remote Alaskan Yup'ik community. It illuminates how schooling and migration shape complex linguistic ecologies; how youths broker sociolinguistic transformation; and how Indigenous peoples' wide-ranging forms of linguistic survivance sust...
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Towards Multilingual Education
This volume focuses on research in bilingual and multilingual education. It discusses the results of research conducted in different multilingual educational contexts and particularly in Basque schools and universities where Basque, Spanish and English are used as subjects and as languages of ins...
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Language and Culture
The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social network...
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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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Linguistic and Communicative Competence
This book is an anthology of articles on teaching English to speakers of other languages. The emphasis is on practical concerns of classroom procedures and on the cross-cultural aspects of teaching English around the world. Several of the articles focus on communicative language teaching.
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Translating Law
The book examines legal translation, covering both theoretical and practical grounds and linguistic as well as legal issues. It analyses the basic skills and competence of the legal translator and various types of legal texts and is useful for translators, lawyers, linguistic and legal scholars w...
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Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children
This book translates research into clinical practice for speech-language pathologists working with children. The book explores both multilingual and multicultural aspects of children with speech sound disorders. The 30 theoretical and clinical chapters have been written by 44 authors from 16 diff...
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Minority Language Media
This book is an international collection of essays by 14 researchers. Included are essays on general topics on minority language media, as well as studies of specific examples. The contributors are all experienced researchers in this field. The book is the first attempt to define and develop mino...
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Social Justice through Multilingual Education
Most Indigenous and minority children are not provided with multilingual education, which would enable them to succeed both in school and in society. In this important book, experts from around the world show how multilingual education can be provided, and what it can achieve.
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Towards a Poetics of Creative Writing
This book is a study of the poetics of creative writing as a subject in the dramatically changing context of practice as research, taking into account the importance of the subjectivity of the writer as researcher. It explores creative writing and theory while offering critical antecedents, theor...
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Constructing Cultures
This book brings together for the first time the work of the two translator/scholars who are regarded as founders of this major field of study. It continues to develop some of the principal research lines that both have been pursuing in recent years, most specifically the cultural turn in Transla...
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Voices in Translation
This volume explores dialect translation and the problems facing the translator in bridging cultural divides. The book begins by discussing how to make a wide range of European voices “sing” in translation, then goes on to illustrate the different solutions employed in conveying the foreign conce...
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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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Managing Translation Services
The book is a sequel to the best-selling “A Practical Guide for Translators” and considers the issues encountered when making the transition from working as a sole freelance translator to developing and managing a translation company.
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Language Learners as Ethnographers
This book looks at the role of cultural studies and intercultural communication in language learning. It argues that learners who have the chance to stay in the target language country can be trained to do an ethnographic project. It combines a theoretical overview of language and cultural practi...
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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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Early Trilingualism
The book describes how a trilingual child in the Basque Country, where Spanish and Basque are the languages of the community, is able to successfully acquire English at home through interaction with her mother. It focuses on her acquisition of the form and function of English questions.
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Multilingual Universities in South Africa
Focusing on the use of African languages in higher education, this book showcases South African higher education practitioners' attempts to promote a multilingual ethos in their classes. It is an overview of multilingual teaching and learning strategies that have been tried and tested in a number...
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The Languages of Africa and the Diaspora
This book explores subordinated vernacular languages in the context of African, Caribbean and US educational landscapes, highlighting the social cost of linguistic exceptionalism in these areas. It examines contravening movements towards forms of linguistic diversity and offers a comprehensive ap...
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The Making of Monolingual Japan
Japan is regarded as a model case of successful language modernization. It is also often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. This book explores the debates relating to language modernization from a language ideology perspective, and in doing so reveals the mechanisms by which la...
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Aspects of Bilingualism in Wales
The minority language and culture of Wales is under threat. Building on a computer analysis of the 1981 Welsh language Census data, the book provides evidence of a language moving slowly towards extinction. Each chapter examines an issue which is of significance in most minority language situatio...
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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 ...
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The Creativity Market
This book focuses on creative writing both as a subject in universities around the world and beyond academia. It offers a thought-provoking analysis of creativity in the globalised marketplace, and examines the intersection of the university sector and the creative industries.
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Bilingual Education
The book contains a comprehensive selection of outstanding and influential articles on bilingual education in the United States and the rest of the world. It is designed for instructors and students, with questions and activities based on each of the nineteen readings for students to engage in ac...
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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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Raising Bilingual-Biliterate Children in Monolingual Cultures
This book is a longitudinal case study carefully detailing the French/English bilingual and biliterate development of three children in one family. The book focuses most specifically on the children’s acquisition of French and English during their early through late adolescence, in both their Lou...
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The Common European Framework of Reference
A comparative study of the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages produced by the Council of Europe in 2001, this book asks writers in European countries and countries in the Americas and Asia to explain the influence of the CEFR. For each country there is a policy-mak...
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Age and the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language
This book provides an overview of current research on the age factor in foreign language learning, addressing issues, which are critical for language planning. It presents research on foreign language learning within bilingual communities in formal instruction settings focussing on syntax, phonol...
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Language Planning and Policy: Issues in Language Planning and Literacy
While literacy has always been central to language planning work, there are fewer studies which focus primarily on literacy as a language planning activity. This volume investigates the complex issues and social and political pressures relating to literacy in a variety of language planning contex...
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Creative Writing Studies
Here creative writers who are also university teachers monitor their contribution to this popular discipline in essays that indicate how far it has come in the USA, the UK and Australia. Chapters range across all three areas of its subtitle - practice, research and pedagogy - charting creative wr...
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Bilingualism in International Schools
This book presents a model for instructing bilingual students in International Schools across the curriculum. In such schools there is now a majority of second language learners, and Carder presents a three-programme model which will provide content-based English-language skills, appropriate staf...
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Studies in Japanese Bilingualism
This book helps dissolve the myth of Japanese homogeneity by explaining the history of this construct and offering 12 empirical studies on different facets of language contact in Japan, including Ainu revitalisation, Korean language maintenance and English immersion, as well as codeswitching and ...
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The English-Vernacular Divide
This book explores the role of English in postcolonial communities such as India. It focuses on some local ways in which the language falls along the lines of a class-based divide. It argues that issues of inequality, subordination and unequal value revolve around the general positioning of Engli...
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Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Foreign Language Acquisition
The book discusses vocabulary learning strategies as an integral subgroup of language learning strategies. It attempts to integrate the approaches of theories of second language acquisition, the theory and practice of instructed foreign language learning, and the findings of current empirical res...
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The Affective Dimension in Second Language Acquisition
This volume presents a series of empirical studies which focus on affectivity in relation to both individual learner differences, and language learning experiences, motivation and attitudes. The volume also elaborates on affectivity in various contexts of FL use and in different educational setti...
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Social Context and Fluency in L2 Learners
The focus in this book is on learners’ experiences using Welsh outside class but the issues discussed have implications for a wide range of other situations where the population is bilingual or multilingual and interaction takes place in a language of wider communication.
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A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism
This book focuses on the psycholinguistic dynamics of multilingualism and the processes of change in time affecting two or more language systems. It develops a novel approach to this challenging subject by bringing together various strands of research including second language acquisition theory,...
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Language Learners with Special Needs
This book explores topics related to the language learning processes of learners with special needs including students with learning disabilities. The chapters written by authors in a wide variety of educational settings discuss individual learner characteristics and profiles, diagnosis and asses...
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Researching Dyslexia in Multilingual Settings
This volume draws together current research on dyslexia and literacy in multilingual settings across disciplines and methodologies. The contributors, all internationally recognised in the field, address developmental and acquired literacy difficulties and dyslexia in a range of language contexts ...
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Language, Space and Power
Language, Space, and Power describes the sociolinguistic and sociocultural life of a Spanish-English dual language classroom in which attention is given to not only the language learning processes at hand but also to how race, ethnicity, and gender dynamics interact within the language acquisitio...
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A Companion to Translation Studies
This book provides a guide to key approaches in translation studies.The book is divided into 9 specialist areas: culture, philosophy, linguistics, history, literary, gender, theatre and opera, screen, and politics. Each chapter gives an in-depth account of theoretical concepts, issues and debates...
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Spanish as an International Language
Spanish is spoken in many countries around the world. Like all languages, it has regional and social variation. Spanish speakers in the US will invariably come into contact with this great variety. This book addresses these aspects of Spanish, while describing its most important linguistic features.
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The Language Difference
This book asks whether language makes a difference when it comes to development, and whether there is a perceptible difference in development between countries that is attributable to their choice of language. It answers these questions by comparing the role of language in Africa and in Southeast...
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Language and Culture Pedagogy
This book presents a view of what it means to teach language and culture in a world characterised by transnational flows of people, commodities and ideas. It contains an analysis of the national tradition of culture teaching as an aspect of foreign language teaching and proposes a transnational f...
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Teacher Collaboration and Talk in Multilingual Classrooms
This book examines the interactions of collaborating teachers in multilingual classrooms and how these impact on what counts as knowledge in the secondary school classroom. The study takes a linguistic ethnographic approach and considers the discourses of whole class and small group teaching and ...
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Decolonisation, Globalisation
This volume brings together scholars from around the world to juxtapose the voices of classroom participants alongside the voices of ruling elites with the aim of critically linking language policy issues with classroom practice in a range of contexts. The volume is suitable for postgraduate stud...
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The Acquisition of L2 Phonology
This wide-ranging new collection explores various aspects of the acquisition of an L2 phonological system. It covers L2 speech production and perception, theoretical conceptualisations of L2 phonology acquisition, and the importance of the mastery of highly intelligible pronunciation as an import...
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Linguistic Landscapes
This book is the first comprehensive approach to language on signs and provides a unique research perspective to urban multilingualism. It offers an up-to-date review of previous research, introduces a coherent analytical framework, and applies this framework to a sample of signs collected in Tokyo.
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Curriculum Related Assessment
This volume examines educational assessment of bilingual children and the challenges faced by teachers. It takes the creative ideas of Jim Cummins and applies them through a novel technique of curriculum related assessment. The book describes the technique in detail and reports on its use in a wi...
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Social Media and Minority Languages
This book includes case studies, theoretical debates, international comparisons on minority languages, and presents a research agenda for the development of Minority Language Media studies. It addresses the challenges in multi-platform, mobile communication environments, focusing on the pitfalls ...
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Vernacular Palaver
This book highlights the continuing appeal of local identities for participants in social networks where communication occurs in languages that are not mother tongues.It demonstrates the importance of notions of localness and locality for speakers of non-native languages, despite the growing prom...
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Reflections on Translation
This collection of essays brings together a decade of writings on translation by leading international translation studies expert, Susan Bassnett. The essays cover a range of topics and will be useful to anyone with an interest in how different cultures communicate.
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The Idea of English in Japan
This book examines the ways in which English is conceptualised as a global language in Japan, and considers how the resultant language ideologies – drawn in part from universal discourses; in part from context-specific trends in social history – inform the relationships that people in Japan have ...
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Risk in Academic Writing
This book brings together a variety of voices - including students and teachers, journal editors and authors - to interrogate the notion of risk in academic writing. Risk-taking is viewed as a productive force, and one that can be used to challenge the silences and erasures inherent in academic t...
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Learners' Experience of Immersion Education
This text follows the progress of two groups of learners in late immersion programmes. It adds to the literature on such programmes by its emphasis on the processes of learning in such programmes. Another aim of the book is to extend knowledge of learning processes in character-based languages.
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Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries
In the past two decades, post-Soviet countries have emerged as a contested linguistic space, where disagreements over language and education policies have led to demonstrations, military conflicts and even secession. This collection offers an up-to-date comparative analysis of language and educat...
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Words, Words, Words. The Translator and the Language
This book presents an exciting new perspective on the study of the lexicon, examining ways in which insights from translation and language learning can be viewed as complementary. It brings together research on the mental lexicon, SLA research, translation studies and practice, terminology, langu...
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Understanding Second Language Process
This book assembles 11 analytical and empirical studies on the process of SLA, reviewing a range of issues, from transfer appropriate processing to L2 default processing strategies, among hearing or deaf learners of a variety of target languages including English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Frenc...
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Power and Meaning Making in an EAP Classroom
This book examines how critical literacy pedagogy has been implemented in a classroom through a collaboration between the author (a researcher) and an EAP teacher. It will interest researchers and practitioners for the ethnographic and pedagogical issues it raises as well as its accessible theore...
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Bilingual Education in China
This volume brings together research on bilingual or trilingual education for the majority and minority nationality groups in China and explores the relationship between them. Papers range from reports of bilingual or trilingual education projects in remote minority regions to discussions about C...
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Examining Education, Media, and Dialogue under Occupation
This book address media and education in the context of Palestine and Israel. They provide insights and provocative analysis of the status quo in education, including language teaching, educational policy and research, media representations and reporting in Middle East and U.S. and different mode...
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Plagiarism, Intellectual Property and the Teaching of L2 Writing
Plagiarism and intellectual property law are two issues that affect every student and every teacher throughout the world. Both concepts are concerned with how we use texts - print, digital, visual, and aural - in the creation of new texts. This book discusses the explicit teaching of these concep...
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Worlds of Literacy
The idea behind this book is that in complex societies like our own there are different worlds of literacy that exist side by side. This book presents a range of case studies describing some of these worlds of literacy and is carefully organised by theme, so as to bring out both the differences a...
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Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence
This book reports on a study that focused on teachers’ beliefs regarding intercultural competence teaching in foreign language education. It creates new knowledge on the variability, and relative consistency, of today’s foreign language teachers’ views regarding intercultural competence teaching ...
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Language Planning and Policy in Africa, Vol 1
This volume covers the language situation in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the ...
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Survival and Development of Language Communities
This volume explores the main challenges facing 7 well-established medium-sized language communities with regard to their survival and development at the beginning of the 21st century. The book provides an in-depth analysis of each case, and reaches conclusions that are relevant to other cases an...
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New Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Modern Languages
This book, featuring chapters from the foremost practitioners in the field of modern languages, closely examines research-based analysis, structural contexts and classroom practice in teaching and learning. It provides much needed fresh thinking on methodology and pedagogy.
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Dual Language Education
Dual language education is a program that combines language minority and language majority students for instruction through 2 languages. This book provides the background for the program and discusses major implementation issues. Research findings summarize language proficiency and achievement ou...
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Incorporating Corpora
Covering a number of European languages from Portuguese to Hungarian, this volume includes many new studies of translation patterns using parallel corpora focusing on particular linguistic features, as well as broader-ranging contributions on translation ‘universals’.
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The Multiliteracies Classroom
This book explores the challenges and rewards of engaging students in literacy learning through multimedia design. The first research of its kind, it applies key themes of critical sociology to multiliteracies, inspiring educators to envisage the changing shape of literacy research.
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The Languages of Israel
This book is an original and comprehensive treatment of the languages of Israel – of the practice and of the ideology. Against the background of an original theory of language policy, it asks about the extent to which the present linguistic pattern may be attributed to explicit language planning ...
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Advocating for English Learners
This book addresses the policy and politics of educating English language learners in the US. It covers demographic change and its educational implications, responses to language diversity, public controversies over bilingual education, high-stakes testing and its impact on English language learn...
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