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 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.
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.
Writing Instruction and Intervention for Struggling Writers
Many children struggle with writing. Instead of the “wait-to-fail” model, schools can use a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) model for early intervention. This book offers descriptions and case examples of how to apply MTSS concepts for writing success.
L2 Writing Assessment
When reading and spelling problems are not detected early, they can become lifelong disabilities. Early intervention is the key. This book is a practical guide for educators to identify such problems and use active writing programmes for instruction and assessment.
Classroom language tests are an everyday feature of teaching, yet they remain under-studied. This volume illuminates this area by featuring teachers’ own tests and commentary, identifying the expert reasoning behind them. An accessible resource for teachers.
Tale, Performance, and Culture in EFL Storytelling with Young Learners
This book explores the link between storytelling, language learning, culture, and emotions in the young EFL classroom. Discover how oral retellings of picture books can foster intercultural understanding and enhance foreign language teaching for all young children.
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.
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.
Educational Bilingualism
This book makes the case for “educational bilingualism,” challenging the outdated monolingual tradition. It proves that in our era of global migration, English is a key to innovative knowledge when integrated with a learner’s own language and cultural self-identity.
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.
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.
From Linguistic Theory to the Classroom
This book shows how to use linguistic research in foreign language teaching. Featuring a practical case study on teaching phrasal verbs, it is essential for educators and researchers who want to apply linguistic findings practically in the classroom.
Expand your academic vocabulary with the 570 most frequent words from university and school textbooks. Each word includes pictorial illustrations to aid memorization, plus parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms, and an example sentence to show it in its proper context.
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.
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.
Build a quality online course, step-by-step. This guide’s simple three-step plan transforms your own resources into engaging lessons using proven methods. No Learning Management System (LMS) expertise is required.
Word-Formation in Context
This fascinating book treats the use of words from a new perspective. Words emerge from an interaction between morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic components. The book draws from a vast spectrum of texts and provides a key to help readers check their answers.
The essays gathered here presents Icelandic research on the challenges and opportunities of diversity in education at several levels, including preschool, primary, secondary, vocational and higher education in Iceland.
This volume explores language acquisition research in Latvia and Lithuania. Detailing a range of views on its problems and perspectives, it stimulates the reader to ask questions, argue, and join the debate. The driving force in this field is dialogue, not simple advice.
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