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.
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.
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.
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on education and society, providing a platform for regional voices to join the global conversation and challenge outdated theories.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 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.
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 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.
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 book explores how public institutions in multilingual Europe ensure efficient communication with an international public. It analyzes the challenges of website translation and localization, comparing public bodies with cultural institutions and multinational companies.
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.
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.
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 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.
Language and Communication
Go beyond just speaking and listening. True communication is understanding the meaning behind the words and the power of how things are said. This collection analyses the process in various contexts, examining the transition from form to meaning to improve all relationships.
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.
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.
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.
This conference proceedings centres on issues related to the development of meaning-focused materials for language learning. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of these materials and introduces previously unexplored facets of the theory of meaning-focused instruction.
Combining rigour and modernity, this collection of essays rediscovers Edgar Allan Poe’s work and draws from communication and linguistics and literature, although it also includes many other academic offshoots which explore Poe’s labyrinthine and variegated imagination.
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.
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