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.
Hybrid Learning in English Language Teaching
This collection offers diverse perspectives on English Language Teaching, grounded in empirical studies. Exploring concepts from motivation to technology, it offers insights into the future of hybrid learning and is essential for all ELT professionals and teacher trainers.
Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings
What is the role of performance in faith practices? This collection of essays explores the complex nexus between faith and performance. Diverse scholars examine how language shapes belief, identity is negotiated, and material settings are transfigured to create sacred spaces.
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.
Bringing Back the Child
This book investigates three older Romanian orphans who experienced extreme deprivation and were effectively without language. It presents a study of their remarkable linguistic progress, which defies the predictions of the Critical Period Hypothesis.
This volume provides new insights into the complex contexts of legal discourse across digital media. It addresses topical issues of web technologies and social media in professional communication, providing a multifaceted overview of ongoing research and knowledge in the field.
To prepare students for the 21st century, we must change the way we teach them to think. This book instils a love of critical thinking in students and teachers, covering its history, methods in language teaching, and providing reading and writing activities.
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.
Drawing on a life of work in Africa, this book explores cross-cultural communication. It dismantles myths about African languages, arguing that Africans are not “anglophone” or “francophone,” but afrophone. Why do some international projects succeed while others fail?
Dealing with Multilingualism in TV Series
This book analyzes multilingualism in TV series and explores how dubbing affects the plot and characterisation of the original shows. A specific focus on Italian dubbing provides detailed insight into this complex and fascinating phenomenon.
Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies
This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context. Bringing together views from specialists from several parts of the world, it handles complex themes in an accessible manner for all readers.
Despite a 21st-century job market that calls for proficiency in multiple languages, enrollments in university language courses have steadily declined. This timely collection of essays addresses this issue, suitable pedagogical approaches, and lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Education and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
A growing number of thinkers are generating new approaches to the past, present, and future of the Middle East and North Africa. This book reflects on education and society, providing a platform for regional voices to join the global conversation and challenge outdated theories.
This book traces the history of Chinese technical communication, exploring the philosophical traditions and classical texts that shaped it. Discover how these historical roots continue to influence contemporary practice and gain compelling perspectives on the field.
Beyond its story, what makes Nineteen Eighty-Four a masterpiece? This book conducts a semiotic analysis to uncover the novel’s hidden structures, revealing how Orwell masterfully constructed its powerful and enigmatic layers of meaning.
Biliteracy and Multiliteracies
This volume introduces ongoing research on biliteracy and multiliteracies. It explores where research is heading in view of multilingualism, with chapters discussing these issues in a wide variety of countries, from Brazil and Cyprus to Portugal and the USA.
This book offers current perspectives and research on vocabulary teaching and learning. Featuring international contributors, it reflects on theory and practice in vocabulary acquisition, strategies, technology, and testing in diverse cultural contexts.
Lines of Thought
In this innovative book, philosopher Claudio Costa argues that old philosophical ideas should be reworked, not dismissed. He challenges contemporary analytical philosophy’s views on language, knowledge, and free will, aiming to restore a broader, more comprehensive perspective.
Transcription Practice for the International Phonetic Alphabet
Learn to transcribe English sounds with the International Phonetic Alphabet to improve your pronunciation. Ideal for students and English language learners, this handbook assumes no prior knowledge and includes exercises with solutions, making it perfect for individual study.
This volume examines diversified approaches to migration and communication, exploring policy dialogues, migration governance, and transnationalism. It sheds light on recent debates in Europe concerning socio-economic challenges, welfare rights, and social cohesion.