This coursebook helps computer science students develop the English skills for academic and professional success. It covers essential topics with practical exercises in listening, reading, speaking, and writing, placing special emphasis on expanding technical vocabulary.
What is a golden share or an angel investor? English for Financial Institutions is your guide to financial English. It features up-to-date topics like cryptocurrencies and quantitative easing, with numerous exercises and answers for self-study or reference.
This volume investigates how humour shapes the discourse, culture, and identity of specialised communities. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, an international team of authors analyses humour’s function in fields like law, policing, marketing, and mental health.
This book focuses on applying Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) methodology within English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classes. CLIL combines language learning with professional subjects, building bridges between higher education and the professional world.
The first Chinese university journal published abroad in English. This unique series provides a platform for scholars from one of China’s top universities to share cutting-edge reports on the English language with the global community.
English in Non-English-Speaking Countries
This book presents English teachers’ practices and challenges of teaching non-native students. These experiences provide a perspective on contemporary teaching in a non-English-speaking country and serve as a guidebook for new scholars in the field.
English in Southeast Asia
This is the first single volume to publish such diverse work on English in Southeast Asia. Sections cover Varieties, Literacies, and Literatures, from code-switching to new writings. An excellent resource for university students and academics.
English Language and Literature
This collection of essays interrogates the language dilemma in Africa. While many Africans require the economic and social benefits of English, there is a growing resistance. The book explores how African languages and English enhance, inhibit, and influence each other.
Williams explores the potential for task-based language learning and teaching (TBLT) within a Hungarian context, by investigating beliefs among university students about English (and other foreign) language teaching.
English Language Teaching (ELT)
This book traces the evolution of language teaching from its classical roots to the contemporary, technology-driven classroom. It explores the transformative role of digital innovation, AI, and globalization in redefining language education today.
Effective language teaching requires knowing how people learn. This book exposes how the commercialized ELT industry ignores this, leading to poor methods and flawed tests. It then charts a new, evidence-based path forward for learners, teachers, and the future of ELT.
This collection of research papers presents new findings in linguistics, methodology, and literature. It explores diverse topics from English as a lingua franca and MOOCs to indigenous storytelling, providing inspiration for a wide spectrum of practitioners.
English Learning Maximisation System
In response to student complaints of “not learning anything,” this book presents a new philosophy: the English Learning Maximisation System (ELMS). This theory helps teachers boost learning by engaging students cognitively and behaviourally from a student’s perspective.
English Studies from Archives to Prospects
This volume explores English Studies from the perspective of linguistics and applied linguistics. Authors provide an overview of topics from the well-established to the new, reflecting a modern approach and presenting the field as vibrant and full of novel ideas.
English Tags
This is the first study of English question tags from an integrated pragmatic and translational perspective. Analysing their syntactic and prosodic properties, it uses film language to compare their functions in English, Italian, and dubbed versions.
Englishes Today
Reflecting current trends in English linguistics research, this volume contributes to the increasingly fashionable, but still under-explored body of literature on the spread and globalisation of English, utilising ideas from different frameworks dealing with English today.
What is Englishness? Is there a national character? This collection seeks to answer these questions by offering a kaleidoscopic vision of Englishness since the eighteenth century, challenging stereotypes and offering keys to understanding its diverse expressions.
This book is one of the first extensive cross-linguistic investigations on epithets (like “the bastard”). It analyses them from the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface, arguing they are a type of pronoun subject to restrictions in attitude reports.
Errors in English Pronunciation among Arabic Speakers
This book analyzes Arabs’ errors in English pronunciation, covering consonants, vowels, and word stress. It explains the reasons behind these errors, which stem from applying Arabic rules to English, and presents teaching suggestions for surmounting them.
Revolutionize your EFL classroom with educational escape rooms! This book offers nine creative, gamified scenarios inspired by literary works like Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter. Captivate secondary students while enhancing language skills, teamwork, and critical thinking.
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