Supporting the Training of Aviation English Trainers and Assessors
This guide helps train Aviation English experts and assessors to meet ICAO language requirements. Its ready-to-apply guidelines enhance flight safety by minimizing communication misunderstandings. A compact text for trainers, aspiring experts, and self-study.
Deconstructing Language Structure and Meaning
Explore the latest research on Romanian syntax, semantics, phonology, and acquisition. This comparative volume draws on diverse theoretical frameworks, making it a vital resource for linguists in Romance studies and beyond.
This interdisciplinary collection presents cutting-edge research on the interplay between language and politics. The papers examine how politicians use language to persuade voters, challenging existing paradigms and placing language as the central medium of politics.
This book explores the lexical borrowing between English and Arabic, tracing their historical contact. It describes the role Arabic played in enriching early English and shows how the hegemony of English can be seen in its modern impact on Arabic.
This book guides language teachers and educators through the nuts and bolts of flipping the classroom. It reviews key factors for a successful learning experience, from pedagogical design to the application of digital technologies for creating materials and activities.
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on education and society, providing a platform for regional voices to join the global conversation and challenge outdated theories.
The World of Coronaspeak
This book explores Coronaspeak, the global language born from the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering jokes, slang (‘jab’), and new coinages (‘elbow bump’), it highlights the capacity of words to adapt to shock and social disorder, arguing they are part of disaster management.
Classroom Assessment for Language Teaching
This book focuses on classroom assessment in language learning. Each chapter reports on issues teachers face, their choices, and the consequences. This collection of teacher voices and stories provides solutions to promote assessment literacy.
Conceptualizing Semantic Relevance between Word Roots
Uncover the hidden semantic links between word roots. This book reveals how similar core components create shared meanings across diverse language families, offering profound insights into the nature of language and culture.
This volume offers diverse perspectives on translation as a bridge to other cultures. It provides studies on literary translation, interpreting, and idiom translation. Written by professional translators, their experience is invaluable for fellow practitioners.
A Review of the Art of Translation
Unlocking the dialect poetry of ancient Iran’s Baba Tahir. This analysis revisits Edward Heron Allen’s classic translation, exploring the gap between literal words and implied meaning while illuminating the poet’s life and the art of translation itself.
Communicating English in Specialised Domains
This volume honors Maurizio Gotti’s academic career and his significant contributions to specialized discourses, lexicography, and the history of English. This collection brings together essays by scholars who have interacted with his ideas in these fields of enquiry.
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?
This book explores Web-based learning technologies for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in higher education. Presenting results from quasi-experimental research, it highlights the effectiveness of these tools in enhancing student vocabulary acquisition and learning.
Literature and the Arts since the 1960s
This collection of essays explores the imaginative wake of the rebellious late 1960s. Focusing on the awakening moment of May 1968, it discusses the impact of the era’s challenges to power and its rich consequences for literature and the arts.
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.
Language Assessment Literacy
This book addresses the prominent field of language assessment literacy (LAL). Bringing together 14 chapters by leading researchers, it presents high-quality studies that fill a long-standing theoretical and empirical gap for language research, teaching, and learning.
This book argues that errors in our decisions result from a ‘noun approach’ to problems. It examines reality using verbs in real time—from cause to effect—to explore the eternal issues of truth and goodness, invalidating the paradigm of 20th-century ‘noun philosophy’.
A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary journey into the numerical systems of South Asian languages. This book unveils their intricate linguistic patterns and cultural significance, offering a new methodology for investigating number systems that can be applied worldwide.
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.