A step-by-step guide to writing a PhD dissertation for students in the Social Sciences. This book offers helpful guidelines, exercises, and pointers to successfully navigate the entire writing process, from conceptualization and literature review to the final conclusion.
Translation and Language Teaching
This volume creates a dialogue between translation studies and language teaching, showing how integrating insights from both can solve contemporary challenges. It presents empirical studies for developing translator competences, with suggestions for redefining curricula.
Basics of Translation
An essential coursebook for Arab students of translation. It combines discussion with practical exercises and examples tuned for beginners, making it ideal for undergraduates.
This volume provides an overview of pedagogies and research methodologies that reflect the urgent need to develop intercultural competence in professions like law, medicine, and business. The book highlights approaches across disciplines, promoting collaborative efforts.
A valuable resource for teachers and researchers, this book focuses on assessment in world Englishes. It presents case studies and new methods for evaluating learners in multilingual settings, considering their diverse styles and different local norms.
Challenges and Initiatives in Refugee Education
When over 50,000 refugees were stranded in an unprepared Greece, this collection of papers presents educational initiatives for teaching them Greek. The studies highlight challenges and argue for innovative, holistic approaches that empower students through the learning process.
English as a Foreign Language
This book introduces the reader to ongoing research on teaching English as a foreign language, highlighting recent trends in acquisition, pedagogy, and the development of communication and intercultural skills from a wide variety of global perspectives.
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.
Model United Nations Simulations and English as a Lingua Franca
Model United Nations (MUN) simulations develop negotiation skills for a globally connected world, especially in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) contexts. This volume provides researchers, practitioners, and language teachers with best practices to enrich the MUN experience.
Beyond the Frontier, Volume III
This volume re-imagines the classroom after COVID-19, offering pedagogy that will create teaching opportunities in both virtual and physical classrooms. Ideas are meant to be shared and evolve into methods that work for both teachers and pupils.
This book explores how university language centres drive internationalisation, focusing on language policy, specialised training, and accreditation. Written by policy makers and instructors, it presents the first national higher education language policy in Europe (Spain).
This study investigates the validity of the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) from the classroom to society. It addresses pedagogical issues in CSL teaching, provides implications for the HSK’s development, and helps test developers and users build assessment literacy.
This book investigates the global response to teaching languages online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It shares teachers’ first-hand narratives on the challenges and opportunities they faced, presenting practical solutions and good practices from around the world.
Intercultural Communicative Competence and Individual Differences
This book offers a critical overview of intercultural communicative competence (ICC). As a novel contribution, it frames ICC in relation to learner variables like motivation and communication apprehension, proposing and testing a new, data-driven model for L2 communication.
This volume explores words, the building blocks of language, from multifaceted perspectives. Bringing together linguistics, neuroscience, and psycholinguistics, it tackles key questions on how to define, measure, and teach vocabulary.
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.
This book guides language teachers and educators through the nuts and bolts of flipping the classroom. It reviews key factors for a successful learning experience, from pedagogical design to the application of digital technologies for creating materials and activities.
This book explores Web-based learning technologies for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in higher education. Presenting results from quasi-experimental research, it highlights the effectiveness of these tools in enhancing student vocabulary acquisition and learning.
Language Assessment Literacy
This book addresses the prominent field of language assessment literacy (LAL). Bringing together 14 chapters by leading researchers, it presents high-quality studies that fill a long-standing theoretical and empirical gap for language research, teaching, and learning.
Escaping Boredom in the Classroom
Gamification is a fun, educational way to teach English. This volume presents the advantages of using escape rooms and breakouts, with practical proposals adaptable to any education level for practicing vocabulary and grammar.