Vocabulary Strategy Training to Enhance Second Language Acquisition in English as a Foreign Language
This volume reviews studies on vocabulary learning strategies, provides new research on their effectiveness, and proposes a practical training program. With exercises and examples, it illustrates their utility in the foreign language classroom for teachers and learners.
This book investigates the acquisition of Tense and Agreement in Spanish and Catalan from a Minimalism Program perspective. It argues that children have these functional categories at a very early stage, covering subject-verb agreement, clitic pronouns, and subject position.
Exploring Local Linguistic Scenery amongst Superdiversity
This book provides a linguistic snapshot of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, investigating its public signs from the perspective of linguistic landscaping studies. It focuses on the presence of foreign languages, especially English, in the context of globalization and super-diversity.
The first book to apply Bourdieu’s theory to management and innovation. It links his concepts to a practical toolkit of methods, showing researchers and students how to model organisational systems and perform business ethnographies from a Bourdieusian perspective.
This collection of research papers consists of three parts. The first is devoted to language teaching and teacher education. The second section explores literary and cultural issues, while the third part encompasses linguistic and media discourse studies.
A core guide for educators seeking to build a constructive reading environment. This book offers proven models, theories, and techniques to effectively design, introduce, and assess powerful reading tasks, enhancing your teaching abilities.
Developments in Foreign Language Teaching
This book offers foreign language (FL) practitioners and educators practical, research-based ideas to develop their teaching skills and optimize student learning. Topics include vocabulary teaching, intercultural awareness, the use of literature, and reflective practice.
This volume gathers research on language acquisition, learning, and teaching. These inspiring contributions by Latin American scholars, or in the Latin American context, will be relevant to all those involved in the process of teaching and learning languages.
The Future of Teaching English for Academic Purposes
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is in its most dynamic period. This book disentangles conflicting views on EAP standards and practices, exploring how research and teaching interact and inform each other from vital perspectives for all stakeholders.
Distinguished scholars offer fresh insights into the latest developments in linguistics and translation studies, challenging existing ideas with depth and lucidity.
Understanding Edgar Allan Poe
This book argues that the horrific experiences in Poe’s tales are a blueprint for empathy. To truly understand another person, we must go out of our minds, enter theirs, and confront the terror of being lost in a world that is not our own.
Creative writing is a response to the world. This book shows how writers use language, genre, and technique to explore themes and subjects. Discover how to produce inventive results that improve your own creative writing and critical understanding.
This book explores the Hebrew writings of Arab authors in Israel who use the language to transmit authentic Arab culture. They see themselves as messengers building a bridge between Arabic and Hebrew cultures, and as potential contributors to resolving the Jewish-Arab conflict.
Language Learning in the Digital Age
How do learners perceive the use of YouTube for English learning? This book reports on a case study of university students in Hong Kong, examining their perceptions and practices. The findings shed light on student needs, offering insights for improved language teaching.
This book illustrates the objectives and construction of reduced English forms like Basic English and Globish. All share a common goal: to build a language tool for effective international communication, a lingua franca for a globalized world. For students and scholars.
Variation is a universal phenomenon permeating language, culture, and worldviews. This book analyses variations in folklore and language—from myths and motifs to dancing and singing—as signifiers of culture, exploring issues of creativity, intertextuality, and transmediality.
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.
Science, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Language Change
This Festschrift honours the work of David Banks. The volume includes papers in the three main fields in which he has published: scientific writing, language change and systemic functional linguistics.
Can language be truly absorbing? For thirty years, Aristide’s witty and elegant grammar columns for Le Figaro entertained France. This book on his work, for lovers of the French language, is both entertaining and instructive, peppered with extracts from his original writings.
This volume gathers international, bilingual contributions on Metaphor and Translation. It explores themes from theory to literature and culture, offering useful conclusions on how metaphor is translated. An essential read for scholars, students, and professional translators.
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