This book advocates teaching peace through transformative literary works. It offers original poetry, critiques of fiction and film, and an exploration of peace studies to improve academic skills and foster curiosity, solitude, and self-development through writing.
Strategies for E-Learning in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
This book explores strategies for integrating digital technologies in EFL teaching. It provides practical applications to enhance language acquisition, engagement, and interactivity, reshaping pedagogy by bridging traditional methods with contemporary digital resources.
This is the first English poetry anthology of Du Mu, a distinguished Tang dynasty poet. Translator Zhang Zhizhong’s philosophy of “spirit over form” is embodied in this collection, which will interest those studying Chinese culture and poetry.
This work investigates the spectrum of new words connected with the Covid-19 pandemic, from neologisms to new meanings. It offers a multifaceted model of lexical innovation to explain recent developments in English vocabulary and the new terminology of these unprecedented times.
This book identifies grammatical constraints on adverbs, proposing a novel syntactic hierarchy with five distinct classes to explain their distribution. Unlike with adjectives, adverb ordering is not predictable from a single factor, but is connected to meaning and usage.
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.
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.
Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Young Learners
This book explores communicative competence in foreign language education through a qualitative study of 4th grade children in Slovakian primary schools. It investigates how this crucial skill is regarded, developed, and understood in the classroom.
This study of medieval poetry explores the interaction between Muslim and Jewish culture in Andalusia. It sheds light on the figure of the “Other”—the Jew in Islam—through the authentic voice of poets, offering a perspective beyond the histories written about the period.
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.
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.
This corpus-based study examines how US and UK newspapers used reporting strategies to shape public opinion on the Second Gulf War. It reveals that the choice of strategies is not only ideologically-driven, but also highly determined by country, style, and genre.
Investigating Language as Social (Inter-)Action
This volume presents research on cognitive linguistics, language contact, translation, and lexicography. Chapters explore native language acquisition, the impact and structure of English, and the translatability of language and culture in intercultural communication.
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.
This book brings together researchers and language teachers on the challenges of teaching second language speaking skills. It advocates for a closer integration of theory and practice, exploring topics from task-authenticity to fluency, social media, and transferable skills.
War-Khasi and War-Jaiñtia
This book explores the syntactic structures of Khasi through a comparative analysis of its War-Khasi and War-Jaiñtia varieties. It uncovers unique grammatical features, offering insights for linguists and anyone interested in the cultural diversity of Northeast India.
The origin of the scientific term “the mechanism” is widely misunderstood. This book reveals its true roots are not in mechanical philosophy, but in ideas of social causality from Ancient Greek tragedy, tracing the term’s evolution through history to our current digital era.
This book provides textbook publishers, teacher trainees, teachers, and academics with current theoretical and practical directions in developing, designing, and implementing materials to enhance foreign language learning and use.
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.
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.