AUSIT 2012
This volume collects papers from an Australian Institute for Interpreters and Translators conference. The presentations explore training, community interpreting, and translation, combining the practical with the theoretical to address key professional questions.
Bridge traditional and student-centered Chinese teaching with a research-based Task-Based PBL approach. This guide offers proven classroom strategies, teacher insights, and 20 ready-to-use tasks.
Thinking and Practicing Reconciliation
This collection asserts that literary representations of conflict offer insights into reconciliation. It charts a course from theory to practice, offering perspectives on storytelling as a way to address human-rights injustices and move from the classroom to the world.
Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology
This volume presents seventeen empirical studies on the perception and production of second language sounds. These findings will be of great interest to anyone in second language phonological acquisition, and also to those with a broader interest in language learning.
Lights! Camera! Action and the Brain
This book details an innovative pedagogy using film in education. It bridges neurological theory with practical applications from worldwide scholars, showing how film can be a powerful pedagogical tool for all learners, including those with special needs.
Marked Word Order in the Qurān and its English Translations
The Qurān’s eloquent style uses marked word order for emphasis and meaning. This book examines how this distinctive feature is handled in ten English translations, offering a systematic comparison of the translators’ strategies and stylistic choices.
Prominent scholars explore (im)politeness in human communication. This volume reviews the state of the art, analysing politeness in media, the effects of speech acts, and implications for language teaching, offering new perspectives on social interaction.
Intercultural Dialogue on English Language Teaching
This book follows five multilingual English teacher educators as they reconstruct their professional identities. Their narratives reveal a “struggle for voice” against dominant discourses, calling for pedagogical reform that honors learners’ linguistic and cultural identity.
Convergent Approaches to Mediaeval English Language and Literature
This volume is a conversation between pioneering research and traditional medievalism. These crucial essays offer multiple perspectives on the English Middle Ages, covering linguistics, literature, and translation, proving the dark ages provide foundations for new ideas.
Showcasing the powerful NooJ linguistic environment, this volume presents 18 articles from the 2012 conference, exploring topics from morphology and syntax to semantics and real-world applications.
Language and Languages
This collection of papers by international academics explores the massive changes globalisation brings to language. Synthesizing theory and research, it addresses the tensions in ELT, ICTs, and minority languages for academics, researchers, and educators.
The Friulian Language
What is the place of a minor language in a global world? This is the first comprehensive study in English of Friulian, exploring its history, culture, literature from medieval ballads to Pasolini, and the migration of its people.
Knowledge, Differences and Identity in the Time of Globalization
The discourse of globalization in higher education reform is troubling. It fails to name a human subject—the student—and its very language antagonizes and marginalizes them. This book explores how this discourse constructs and deconstructs identities.
In times of great change, this collection of articles examines the need to redefine values. Authors approach the challenge of reconstructing histories, moralities, and social relationships from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
This is the only study on the acquisition of the Spanish Determiner Phrase by Bantu speakers. It contributes to Second Language Acquisition and Creole formation by comparing the interlanguage of Swahili speakers with Spanish-lexifier Creoles for the first time.
This collection synthesizes research in Mayan linguistics, balancing recent linguistic theories with rich, new empirical data gathered from fieldwork. The findings have implications for understanding Mayan grammars and for universal linguistic theory.
This volume offers an overview of state-of-the-art lexicographical research in Europe, with contributions on historical and synchronic dictionaries for major European languages and the profound effects of information technology on designing and using them.
This book contains original empirical studies in Applied Linguistics, revolving around the concepts of stability and variability. It investigates classic and current topics, from communicative competence to intercultural identity, in diverse learning contexts.
The Development of Conceptual Socialization in International Students
This volume introduces “conceptual socialization,” a new framework for analyzing how L2 learners blend their native culture with a new one. It explores the untold trajectories of long-term international graduate students’ linguistic and social development.
Exploring Space
This two-volume collection offers a comprehensive insight into how the category of space can inform original philological research. The first volume covers cultural and literary studies, while the second refers to English language studies.
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