This book elucidates what happens when people from different cultural backgrounds communicate. It highlights difficulties in conveying messages by examining discourse, power relations, and persuasion, providing a new viewpoint for linguists and students.
Investigating the Role of Language in the Identity Construction of Scholars
This volume explores major hindrances to communication in the way we over-generalise, stereotype and undermine the people with whom we communicate. It investigates the consequent need for greater intercultural awareness on the part of educators and students.
This volume discusses the assessment of Second Language Learners with Specific Language Learning Disorders and other disabilities. It explores theoretical models, evaluates accommodation practices, and fills a crucial gap for researchers and professionals.
This book tackles intercultural language teaching and the use of information and communication technology in the EFL classroom. A pioneering study, its results offer materials writers, software designers, and EFL teachers criteria to evaluate CALL software.
Earthly Honest Things
This collection of twenty-five shorter writings is from a leading authority on William Langland. Including four new pieces, these revised essays are an indispensable companion for specialists and an exciting introduction for students.
The Teacher of the 21st Century
This book contains the best articles from the 2013 ATEE conference, presenting an exchange of ideas between European teacher educators and beyond. It enhances the quality of teacher education and stimulates dialogue among researchers, teachers, and students.
The Future of Post-Human Urban Planning
Is sustainability as desirable as we are led to believe? Contrary to conventional wisdom, the concern has been exaggerated, becoming a fad with ignored dark sides. This book provides a better way to understand sustainability, transcending the debate.
Global Encounters
Scholars worldwide share their most successful teaching practices in cross-cultural studies and international education. This compilation highlights the need for culturally sensitive education to foster skills in the next generation of global citizens.
This book explores new developments in science and technology education. It examines the impact of updated pedagogical practices, elaborates on future challenges, and points to new research directions, bridging the gap between research and practice.
Responding to challenges arising from an increase in Chinese students at western universities, Burrows provides a guide on how to deal with such problems. She explores such issues as cultural differences, as well as suggesting how best to engage the student.
Improving Learning in Secondary Schools
The mere presence of feedback is not enough to support learning. This book argues feedback is a social process where context is critical. It presents a critical analysis of feedback in teacher talk and writing to generate a new, globally-applicable theory of classroom feedback.
Storyline
Story making is a fundamental human activity. This book shows how educators worldwide use the Storyline Approach to unlock the power of stories in learning, tapping into imagination and emotion to develop skills, forge connections, and unite the cognitive and affective domains.
Peace and Social Justice Education on Campus
This volume provides important reflections by peace and social justice educators working on college campuses. Contributions offer critical assessments of institutions, pedagogies, and practices, making visible the spaces in which education and learning occur.
Intercultural Horizons Volume III
This volume presents papers from international academics and practitioners offering analyses and case studies on intercultural studies and civic engagement. A key theme is second language acquisition amid the increasing dominance of English as a lingua franca.
The Art of Noticing Deeply
In this work, authors study the spaces where we teach and learn, where we explore and interact, and where we pause and wonder. They give insights into ways the arts intersect teachers’ creative beings, and suggest rethinking our knowledge about teaching and learning.
Intercultural Education and Competences
This volume explains why it is necessary to invest in education. It analyses the current situation in intercultural education and intercultural competences, and addresses the challenges to, and possible ways of dealing with, different perspectives in intercultural education.
iPads in Higher Education
This book will be useful to academics in any discipline interested in using iPads in teaching and learning, irrespective of the scale of implementation. The contributions cover a wide range of academic areas, from Urban Planning and Biology to Art and Design.
Rethinking Social Issues in Education for the 21st Century
Key social issues and controversies in education are revisited in this volume. The text shows how common interests and collaboration help us understand social issues, the evaluation of governmental responses, and the promotion of ideas about the way forward into the 21st century.
The result of a conference held in Salzburg in 2013, this title reflects the increasing importance given to local knowledge in various sciences, and discusses the positive and negative viewpoints associated with this concept.
Creative Dialogues
This collection of essays is a groundbreaking contribution to Narrative Medicine and the Health Humanities. Featuring prestigious scholars like Rita Charon, it is highly beneficial for healthcare professionals, medical students, and Humanities researchers.