Formal Linguistics and the Teaching of Latin
This collection of papers explores comparative linguistics applied to the teaching of Latin. Comparing Latin with other languages, it represents grammar as the product of mental processes for linguists, teachers, and students seeking to update their approach.
The Magic of Innovation
This volume focuses on innovative approaches to teaching foreign languages to non-language students. It offers best practices and theoretical insights valuable to teachers, course designers, and researchers interested in current trends in language teaching.
Multilingualism and Education in Africa
An essential resource for understanding multilingualism and education in Africa. Written by leading authorities, this book examines policies and practices across the continent, combining theoretical, empirical, and personal experiences to show what works.
New Literacies
The notion of change is central. As new technologies accelerate, the traditional definition of literacy as just reading and writing is too simplistic. This calls for a reorientation in how we teach, learn, and view literacy for the 21st century.
Children, Their Schools and What They Learn on Beginning Primary School
This pioneering study of education in Cameroon highlights how Anglophone and Francophone colonial legacies shape language socialization in schools, exposing a critical gap between official bilingualism policy and classroom reality and its impact on identity.
Reflection, Change, and Reconstruction in the Context of Educational Reform and Innovation in China
This book explores how reflective teaching transforms the thinking and classroom practice of Chinese university EFL teachers. It offers a new perspective on professional development and is a unique resource for teachers, teacher educators, and researchers.
New Challenges for Language Testing
This text presents the key aspects of the application of assessment in higher education and the systems of accreditation. It teaches the basic principles of language testing and accreditation, providing cases of how new methods are useful to second language teachers and students.
This book explores the unbreakable relationship between teaching, learning, and assessment. A range of articles scrutinizes assessment from a wide spectrum: from teacher assessment literacy and technology in the classroom to the role of the CEFR and empirical data analysis.
The English language is used as a second or foreign language in countries which had once been British colonies. Here, Shoro provides educational institutions with simple and practical language-learning courses which fulfil the requirements of those wanting to learn English.
My Utopia
This collection of creative writing demonstrates that utopian thinking is beyond any gender, race, age, color, nationality or border limitations. The short fiction, essays and poems here will be of great interest to anyone who believes in the power of literature in forcing change
Being Bilingual in Borinquen
In Puerto Rico’s complex linguistic landscape, the voices of its people have been muted. This volume showcases twenty-five personal histories from language professionals, revealing their many routes to bilingualism and why one-size-fits-all policies fail.
By focusing on language learners’ self-concept, this publication foregrounds the role of the learner in the process of language learning. It presents a number of empirical studies that bring into focus various aspects of the self in the learning of languages.
This book addresses teaching and assessing foreign language for academic purposes in a plurilingual context. Based on a research project, it describes a model LAP test and shows findings on the performance of students from both Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages.
This practical book provides comprehensive coverage of key terms in language syllabus design and materials development. It offers clear, concise definitions, serving as an essential source for curriculum researchers, language educators, and students of applied linguistics.
A reflection is made here on the relationship between language and music, two unique, innate human capacities. The text provides a clear explanation of the centrality of melodies and rhythm to foreign language learning acquisition.
The publication offers a unique starting point when dealing with linguistic complexity, under the assumption that what is simpler is acquired earlier than what is complex, and allows deeper insight into the factors determining complexity in different populations of acquirers.
Didactics of Translation
Bnini gathers empirical evidence for the didactic value of translating texts in context through an experiment involving students who study translation as part of their curriculum. A number of theoretical frameworks are invoked in the study.
Bilingualism and Minority Languages in Europe
This collection considers such issues as the cognitive, linguistic and emotional benefits of speaking two languages and concerns relating to identity in minority language areas. It underlines the significance of bilingualism when European minority languages are still spoken.
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.
This work presents a glossary that allows the reader to appreciate positive diversity and interculturalism through multilingualism. It also contains key facts about the languages at hand, as well as useful phrases, weekdays, numbers, and elements of grammar.