Twenty-one international academics and researchers contribute 13 chapters focusing on the development of perspectives and practices within three branches of language immersion education: foreign langu
Fifteen international academics contribute 12 chapters concerned with pragmatic learning, teaching, and testing in foreign language contexts. Following an overview of the topic, the text addresses iss
Nine articles by linguists in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and the US explore multiple language use and policy with an emphasis on education. Among the countries are Belarus, Ukraine, Moldava, Lith
Twenty-one researchers and practitioners from the UK, the U.S., Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Canada contribute 16 chapters focusing on strategies appropriate for independent language learning settings
Drawing on Och's two-step model of indexical relations, Cook (East Asian languages and literatures, U. of Hawaii, Manoa) examines how learners of Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) and their host fa
Dornyei (psycholinguistics, U. of Nottingham, UK) and Ushioda (ELT and applied linguistics, U. of Warwick, UK) compile 18 articles on language learning motivation written by an international group of
With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive anthology of conceptual and empirical papers describing the latest developments in L2 moti
Seeking to broaden the scholarship on second language writing theory to include research on foreign language writing, Manchon (applied linguistics, U. of Murcia, Spain) presents 11 papers reviewing re
Writing for graduate students, scholars, French teachers, and curriculum developers, Mougeon (Centre for Research on Language Contact, York U., Glendon, Canada) et al. report on the findings of a rese
This book engages with English in globalization, re-examining and re-interpreting the contemporary contexts of its acquisition and use. The chapters contained in this book weave together four inter-re
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
Turner (language and academic writing, U. of London) spotlights language as a central rather than peripheral player in the work of higher education, and frames it in the contemporary academy as an obj
Contains 19 contributions written primarily by international scholars in the fields of linguistics, anthropology, social psychology, and other fields, addressing language shift in various cultures, an
An overview of the history and practice of interpreting for anyone interested in the field in general or as a career. Phelan (applied language and intercultural studies, Dublin City U.) describes the
In this book, both beginning and experienced translators will find pragmatic techniques for dealing with problems of literary translation, whatever the original language. Certain challenges and certai
Lindhold-Leary (child development, San Jose St. U.) examines dual language education (DLE), an approach to language learning in which both language majority and language minority students are integrat
This book is provides a comprehensive review of the legal status of minority languages in the U.S. It also provides the historical and political context for the legal manoeuvring that culminated in la
Writing for parents of multilingual families, Barron-Hauwaert promotes the planned strategy of associating one person with one language in the home, thereby teaching children several languages as a na
In this book different aspects of language and aging are discussed. While language spoken by and language spoken with elderly people have been treated as different areas of research, it is argued here
Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Communication: An International Investigation reports on a study that focused on teachers’ beliefs regarding intercultural competence teaching in foreign la
