Foreign Accent Perception
Coinciding with the increased attention given to foreign accents and their perception, Bryła-Cruz’s study represents the largest qualitative and quantitative investigation into the acceptability, intelligibility and comprehensibility of Polish English by various native speakers.
The seventeen chapters brought together here provide a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Bilingualism held in 2015, and offer insights into code-switching, the linguistic landscape, language policy, and bilingual education, among other topics.
Fostering Culture Through Film
The book highlights the theories and practical applications by which instructors of foreign languages and cultural studies use contemporary film to provide insightful readings on diverse local communities.
Kermer links Cognitive Grammar explanations to the area of second-language learning, providing both theoretical and practical perspectives on the process of teaching and learning about English language structures.
Constructing Legal Discourses and Social Practices
This title looks descriptively and interpretatively at the various existing forms of legal discourse and how these are framed and organised by social practices within distinctive sites of legal communication.
Current Issues in Language Evaluation, Assessment and Testing
This volume provides a selection of research papers presented at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics and discussing issues related to language testing and the development of language assessment instruments around the world.
Commanding Words
Encompassing subjects as varied as politics, culture, literature, history, and pedagogy, the twenty chapters of this book discuss the role authority plays in political, social, and academic organisation, postulating the interconnectedness between authority and discourse.
Departing from Tradition
This book showcases some of the ongoing innovations in the rapidly growing field of English Language Teaching, offering insights into the tremendous changes occurring in secondary and university English language classrooms across Asia.
Language Acquisition
This collection of essays comprises a selection of articles about research conducted on language acquisition in the Baltic States, namely in Latvia and Lithuania, a field which has witnessed massive growth in recent years.
Discourse In and Through the Media
This conference proceedings examines various aspects related to the representation of specialised discourse in and through the media, including argumentative practices and knowledge construction, providing extensive examples of the type of research conducted on these issues.
Language in Use
This collection explores applications of metaphor in a variety of contexts and types of discourse, against a multitude of cultural backgrounds.
Given the lack of resources that provide examples as to what English modals could be used when referring to successive clauses, Chartrand develops and discusses a method to extract modal auxiliaries in two consecutive clauses from the British National Corpus 2007 XML edition.
Language at Work
This title outlines recent linguistic research in a cross-section of institutions, including museums, schools, and universities, to investigate the language of the workplace and public institutions.
Modernizing Educational Practice
This book represents presentations given at the Ustroń CLIL 2013 conference, which brought together academicians, researchers, teachers and educational authorities to exchange research on Content and Language Integrated Learning methodologies.
This publication brings together work presented at the 4th International Conference on Corpus Use and Learning to Translate, and includes contributions on the use of multilingual corpora in teaching scientific translation and trans-collocations in parallel corpora, among others.
Ornia uses medical brochures in the United Kingdom and Spain to determine the features that these texts present in each country and to check if medical brochures published in Spain and translated into English include all relevant features typical of original English texts.
This study provides a theoretical and practical framework for understanding the writing strategies used by Singapore primary school students and strategy-based writing instruction conducted in Singapore primary schools.
A Name To Exist
The use of a name allows objects to be included within the human paradigm, meaning nomination and pseudonyms on the internet raise certain problems. This monograph investigates this through a study of nomination and two surveys of Internet users and pseudonyms collected online.
Input a Word, Analyze the World
Comprising contributions by scholars from across the globe, this collection represents current perspectives on Corpus Linguistics from a variety of linguistic subdisciplines. It will be of particular interest to language specialists.
This monograph provides comprehensive description of the structure of Cameroonian Pidgin, including an overview of its socio-cultural context, writing system, sounds, word formation, word classes and sentence structures, in addition to a corpus of 540 Cameroonian Pidgin proverbs.
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