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Translating China
The book is a collection of essays on translating various types of text (literary, religious, political, etc.) into and from Chinese. The focus is on how such translations have been produced and propagated from ancient to modern times, and their sociocultural impact on the evolution of Chinese hi...
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New Trends in Audiovisual Translation
This book, written by leading audiovisual translation experts, introduces the reader to some of the main linguistic and cultural challenges that translators face when dealing with audiovisual productions. It discusses the current issues and debates in the study of dubbing and subtitling and offer...
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Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children
This book provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status, the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the role of schooling by single-language im...
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Childhood Bilingualism
This book contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and children as well as perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and psycholinguistic research on bilingualism in adults.
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Social Actions for Classroom Language Learning
Using sociocultural approaches to research on language learning and an extensive corpus of classroom videos made over four years, the book documents language learning as an epiphenomenon of peer face-to-face interaction. The book uses methods from conversation analysis with longitudinal data to d...
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Online Intercultural Exchange
This book explores online intercultural exchange, the activity of engaging learners in collaborative project work with partners from other cultures using online communication technology. It examines how online collaboration can be integrated into the foreign language classroom and can improve stu...
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Silence in Second Language Learning
This book claims that the silent period represents a psychical event, a non-linguistic as well as linguistic moment in the continuous process of identity formation and reformation. It calls on psychoanalytic concepts to undertake a dialogue with the learner as a being engaged in the psychical wor...
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Reviving Catalan at School
This book presents a comprehensive picture of languages and school in Catalan-speaking countries. The book makes information on the situation in these countries available to an English-speaking audience, and examines both language-in-education policies and instructional practices.
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Francophonie in the 1990s
This book is intended to make up-to-date information and opinion about Francophonie accessible to English-speaking readers, and to assess how well the international movement of French-speaking nations is placed to face the future. Students of French, international relations and sociolinguistics w...
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Multilingual Urban Scandinavia
This book explores research being carried out on linguistic practices among adolescents in multilingual urban Scandinavia. It analyses new linguistic practices, examines how these practices are perceived and discusses how their speakers construct their identities, giving an insight into the lingu...
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Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific, Vol 1
This volume covers the language situation in Fiji, The Philippines and Vanuatu 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-...
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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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Living and Studying Abroad
Studies of students who travel to other countries for study. It includes students travelling within Europe, from Europe and America to East Asia and China and vice versa. The articles report the results of research and also give detailed accounts of the research methods used, and this will be par...
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Attitudes and Languages
The book aims to establish the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages. The strong tradition of attitude theory and research from social psychology is made relevant to language restoration and decay. Research shows how attitude to bilingualism is disti...
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Learning to Request in a Second Language
This book examines the acquisition of requests in English by a Japanese girl during her residence in Australia. It focuses on the linguistic repertoire available to the child as she makes requests and varies these to suit different goals and addressees. It helps unravel features of pragmatic deve...
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Bilingual Education and Social Change
This book provides a case study of dual-language planning and implementation at a Spanish-English public elementary school program in Washington, DC. It demonstrates how this program provides more opportunities to language minority and language majority students than are traditionally available i...
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Translation and Norms
This issue deals with translation and norms. Norms are models of correct or appropriate behaviour and of correct or appropriate behavioural products. Since translational behaviour is contextualised social behaviour, translational norms are understood as internalised behavioural constraints which ...
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A Portrait of the Young in the New Multilingual Spain
This book examines the main issues in bilingual and multilingual language acquisition through children and youngsters growing up in today’s multicultural Spain. The studies cover phonetics, grammar and pragmatics, code mixing, parental strategies, bilingual twins, SLI bilingualism, literacy and s...
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Multilingual Higher Education
This book argues that a multilingual approach to higher education is imperative in an increasingly globalised education environment. This book addresses the need to acknowledge other languages explicitly in classroom instruction and in student learning to improve student success, to widen access ...
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Input for Instructed L2 Learners
This book focuses on L2 classroom discourse analysis in the light of Relevance Theory. Input for instructed L2 learners is understood as the language presented by the teacher in order to facilitate the process of L2 learning/acquisition. It will be of interest to L2 teachers, teacher educators, t...
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Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing
Using the author’s own experiences in addition to a survey of 150 creative writing teachers, this book critiques the creative writing workshop and suggests a possible replacement that ‘unsilences’ the writer and recognises the complexities of the student–teacher relationship by focussing on dialo...
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The Social Construction of Age
This book broaches the question of the social impact of age on language learners from a social constructionist perspective, thus filling a gap currently existing in the literature on age and second language acquisition.
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Bilingual Children's Language and Literacy Development
This text contains case studies relating the experience of bilingual children in various settings in New Zealand schools. The contexts include a Maori immersion school, a Samoan bilingual unit and mainstream classrooms which cater for immigrant and deaf children. Suggestions for educational polic...
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Third Language Learners
The book focuses on the effect of bilingualism in the oral production of the English language learners. This volume deals specifically with bilingualism effects in the pragmatic production and awareness of third language learners of English.
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The Meaning Makers
The Meaning Makers traces the language and literacy development of a large, representative sample of children from age 1 to 10, quoting liberally from observations made at home and at school. Setting the findings of the study in the context of recent research, it offers suggestions for improving ...
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Understanding Deaf Culture
This book assesses the concepts of Deaf culture. It illustrates the pitfalls which have been created for Deaf communities by the medical concept of ‘deafness’ and contrasts this with a new concept of “Deafhood”, a process by which every Deaf child, family and adult implicitly explains their exist...
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Social Justice Language Teacher Education
Social justice language teacher education conceptualizes language teacher education as responding to social and societal inequities that cause unequal access to educational and life opportunities. In this book, authors articulate a global view of social justice language teacher education, offerin...
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Style, Identity and Literacy
Style, Identity and Literacy is a qualitative study of the literacy practices of a group of Singaporean adolescents, relating their patterns of interaction - both inside and outside the classroom - to the different levels of social organization in Singaporean society (home, peer group and school).
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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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The Knowledge Economy, Language and Culture
Work in the knowledge economy operates quite differently than in the industrial economy in that it is highly dependent on communication and language. This book considers how language and culture are relevant to the practices of the knowledge economy while also considering how the broader changes ...
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Second Language Writing Systems
This book looks at how people learn and use a 2nd language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteristics of the 1st and 2nd writing systems, to a certain extent independently of the languages involved.It presents the effects of writing systems on language reading and writing a...
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The Politics of Language Education
This book highlights the importance of micropolitics in shaping language education policy, development and projects. It discusses background theory to understanding micropolitics, issues surrounding the research and publication of political behaviour by individuals and institutions, and presents ...
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Multilingual Aspects of Signed Language Communication and Disorder
This book brings together work on communication disorders of child and adult users of signed languages. The chapters investigate linguistic impairments caused by deficits in visual processing and motor movements, as well as neurological decline. It also contains suggestions about how signed langu...
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Multilingualism and Creativity
This book presents the author's research into whether speaking multiple languages has a positive impact on an individual's creative potential. It examines how specific factors in multilingual development encourage certain cognitive functions, which in turn facilitate people's creative performance.
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Studies of Fossilization in Second Language Acquisition
This book brings together a collection of most recent theoretical and empirical studies on fossilization. It covers a wide range of perspectives and issues. The analyses discussed herein address key concerns of many second language researchers and teachers with regard to just how far anyone can g...
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In and Out of English
This book is concerned with the impact of English as the lingua franca of today’s world, in particular its relationship with the languages of Europe. It explores a number of themes, including linguistic imperialism, change as the result of language contact and the concept of the English native sp...
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Writing in Foreign Language Contexts
This book represents the most comprehensive account to date of foreign language writing. Its basic aim is to reflect critically on where the field is now and where it needs to go next in the exploration of foreign language writing at the levels of theory, research, and pedagogy.
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Theatrical Translation and Film Adaptation
Translation and film adaptation of theatre have received little study. In filling that gap, this book draws on the experiences of theatrical translators and on movie versions of plays from various countries. It also offers insights into such concerns as the translation of bilingual plays and the ...
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The Struggle for Legitimacy
This book examines experiences of Indigenous students in settler schools by using the example of a Canadian school as a window onto the relationship between colonial discourses; indigenized English language varieties; racialized identities; and biased educational practices of settler schools.
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The Guided Construction of Knowledge
This book examines how people help other people learn. Using examples of talk recorded in classrooms, it shows how teachers and learners succeed and fail in the process of guiding learning and constructing knowledge. The book is directly relevant to teachers concerned about the quality of educati...
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Beyond Bilingualism
This book provides theoretical, empirical and practical bases for planning and implementing multilingual education programmes that prepare students for a multilingual world. It addresses the unique challenge that promoting multilingualism and multilingual education presents.
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Developing Minority Language Resources
This book documents ongoing language shift to English among Latino professionals in California. It describes instructional practices used in the teaching of Spanish as an academic subject at the high school and university levels to “heritage” language students who, although educated entirely in E...
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Paragraphs on Translation
This volume is a collection of Peter Newmark's articles in The Linguist and covers a variety of topics: the force of translation in public life, instancing health and social services, art galleries, operas, light magazines and even gives some hints on the translation of erotica.
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The Bilingual Advantage
Using novel methodological approaches and new data, The Bilingual Advantage draws together researchers from education, economics, sociology, anthropology and linguistics to examine the economic and employment benefits of bilingualism in the US labor market, countering past research that shows no ...
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The Native Speaker
Linguists, applied linguists and language teachers all appeal to the native speaker as an important reference point. But what exactly (who exactly?) is the native speaker? This book examines the native speaker from different points of view, arguing that the native speaker is both myth and reality.
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Language Planning
Reviewing the field of language policy and planning, this text sets out current practice and ways of thinking about language policy and planning, looking at methodology and the key areas of education, literacy and economics. Case studies of key language planning and policy issues are included.
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Mainstreaming ESL
This practical book will be useful for teaching professional working in linguistically diverse classrooms. It includes accounts of 'mainstreaming' from both ESL and mainstream teachers in primary and secondary schools across the world. It also provides examples of teaching materials and pupils' w...
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Language Planning and Policy in Africa, Vol. 2
This volume covers the language situation in Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Tunisia, 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 ro...
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Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords
Many of the most important English vocabulary may already exist in native lexicons. This pioneering book examines Japanese lexical borrowing, clarifies the effect of cognates on foreign language acquisition, assesses Japanese cognates that correspond to high-frequency and academic English, and di...
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Teaching Poetry Writing
This book is an alternative to the full-class workshop approach to poetry writing instruction. In the five canon approach, peer critique of student poems takes place in online environments, freeing up class time for writing exercises and lessons based on the five canons of classical rhetoric: inv...
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Teaching and Learning in Multicultural Schools
This book examines the challenges of educating students recently arrived from other countries, the children of immigrants, as well as historical 'minority groups’. It outlines the relevant theoretical background and provides detailed practical advice for teachers and school administrators in scho...
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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...
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