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.
English in Southeast Asia
This is the first single volume to publish such diverse work on English in Southeast Asia. Sections cover Varieties, Literacies, and Literatures, from code-switching to new writings. An excellent resource for university students and academics.
English Language and Literature
This collection of essays interrogates the language dilemma in Africa. While many Africans require the economic and social benefits of English, there is a growing resistance. The book explores how African languages and English enhance, inhibit, and influence each other.
Williams explores the potential for task-based language learning and teaching (TBLT) within a Hungarian context, by investigating beliefs among university students about English (and other foreign) language teaching.
ELT ignores a vital question: how do people learn languages? This book critiques an industry driven by profit, not pedagogy, and reveals how we can recenter teaching for the benefit of learners and teachers.
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.
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.
English Studies from Archives to Prospects
This volume explores English Studies from the perspective of linguistics and applied linguistics. Authors provide an overview of topics from the well-established to the new, reflecting a modern approach and presenting the field as vibrant and full of novel ideas.
English Tags
This is the first study of English question tags from an integrated pragmatic and translational perspective. Analysing their syntactic and prosodic properties, it uses film language to compare their functions in English, Italian, and dubbed versions.
Englishes Today
Reflecting current trends in English linguistics research, this volume contributes to the increasingly fashionable, but still under-explored body of literature on the spread and globalisation of English, utilising ideas from different frameworks dealing with English today.
What is Englishness? Is there a national character? This collection seeks to answer these questions by offering a kaleidoscopic vision of Englishness since the eighteenth century, challenging stereotypes and offering keys to understanding its diverse expressions.
This book is one of the first extensive cross-linguistic investigations on epithets (like “the bastard”). It analyses them from the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface, arguing they are a type of pronoun subject to restrictions in attitude reports.
Errors in English Pronunciation among Arabic Speakers
This book analyzes Arabs’ errors in English pronunciation, covering consonants, vowels, and word stress. It explains the reasons behind these errors, which stem from applying Arabic rules to English, and presents teaching suggestions for surmounting them.
Revolutionize your EFL classroom with educational escape rooms! This book offers nine creative, gamified scenarios inspired by literary works like Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter. Captivate secondary students while enhancing language skills, teamwork, and critical thinking.
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.
ESP Vocabulary Learning Strategies
This book surveys research on vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) in second language (L2) learning. It explores how self-regulation, self-esteem, and learning style affect VLS use, redefining their psychological status and setting the scene for future research.
Essays in Honour of Boris Berić’s Sixty-Fifth Birthday
This collection of essays offers contemporary approaches to literature and linguistics. Exploring genres from fantasy to film, it addresses issues like posthumanism, gender, and identity, making it a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers.
This collection explores topical issues in modern linguistics, including cross-cultural communication, lexicography, and terminology. It analyzes cultural aspects of language, dictionary user needs, modern terminology, and new models for reference works.
ESP has accumulated substantial tradition in practice, research and theory, and is a common approach in English Language Teaching among adults today. This text explores research conducted in this field in order to assist its recognition as an autonomous academic discipline.
Europe
EU policy to protect refugees has proven inadequate, failing to guarantee their rights. This study investigates how vague language in the EU’s own legal Directives contributed to this failure to harmonize procedures and protect displaced people.
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