This volume brings together theoretical and empirical research on L2 speech perception and production. It deals with segments, syllables, and the suprasegmental level, featuring studies conducted in countries across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
This book discusses the development of Hebrew poetry in Andalusia and the Arab influence on its motifs. It shatters existing myths about the region during the period of Muslim rule.
Analysing Health Discourse in Digital Environments
How is the digital world changing our conversations about health? This collection analyzes online interactions to reveal the subtle yet profound shifts reshaping health communication today.
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.
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.
Pragmatic Aspects of L2 Communication
This volume addresses pragmatic aspects of L2 communication from the perspectives of researchers, practitioners, and learners. It shows how pragmatic awareness is crucial for social competence and can be applied to language teaching and assessment.
This book uses empirical evidence to challenge the monolithic picture of English in Cameroon. It argues the country harbours different World Englishes, a complex sociolinguistic landscape comparable only to South Africa that challenges nation-based World Englishes paradigms.
Explore stancetaking’s theory and practice across diverse contexts, from political trials to informal chats. Analyzing events like the COVID-19 pandemic, this interdisciplinary volume offers key applications for teaching and improving inter-ethnic communication.
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.
The Philosophy of A.W.H. Adkins
Every society is shaped by the tension between cooperative and competitive values. This book explores this conflict in the ancient Greek world, using a universal model to reveal a culture’s true values. These discussions are not just historical—they speak directly to us today.
Second Person Plural Forms in World Englishes
While Modern English uses a single “you,” many dialects have plural forms like “yous.” This investigation, based on a 1.9 billion-word corpus, explores these forms across 20 varieties of English, uncovering their distribution and role in the speaker-hearer relationship.
An Interactive Approach to Enhancing Early Word Learning
This volume translates complex research on child language into accessible strategies for parents and professionals. It informs best practices for building vocabulary from the ground up, enhancing word learning even before infants produce their first words to prevent delays.
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.
Idioms through Time and Technology
What is an idiom? This book offers a game-changing answer, revealing new categories like similidioms. Witty and deeply researched, it will captivate scholars and any reader curious about the expressions we use every day.
Pragmatic Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
This book analyzes and compares the language styles, politeness, and directness used by English and Slovak presenters on live television. Because the shows are unscripted, their language is more natural, and the results contribute to sociolinguistic research worldwide.
This book offers better ways of teaching and learning Hindi as a foreign language. With customised teaching methods for learners and valuable information for researchers, it is a must-read for learners, researchers and teachers of Hindi as a foreign language.
In fifteen expert essays, this volume delves into the foundations of lexicography and lexicology. Spanning historical manuscripts to digital corpus analysis, these studies offer new critical perspectives on the making and meaning of words across cultures and time.
This book explores the use of phraseological units (PUs) in discourse. It examines core and contextual uses, various modifications like puns and extended metaphors, and the serious challenge of their translation.
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.
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.
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