Corpus Linguistics and English Across ‘The Three Circles’
This book surveys applied corpus linguistics across two decades of advancements (2000-2020). It is essential for EFL and ESL students and practitioners, featuring replicable case studies on learners and native speakers of English from around the world.
This book outlines a framework for translation projects in universities moving toward a bilingual environment. Using a case study of university regulations, it helps translators, terminologists, and researchers understand phraseology, language norms, and sentence structure.
A Brief History of Educational Developments in India
Once a beacon of learning, ancient India’s magnificent educational systems fell into ruin. This book uncovers the story of their rise and fall, from the Vedic era through colonial rule to the modern day.
This book analyzes multilingual academic writing through translanguaging, examining the disparity between thinking in one language and writing in another. It offers practical strategies for educators to acknowledge student voices and identities, decolonizing academic writing.
Second Person Plural Forms in World Englishes
While Modern English uses a single “you,” many dialects have plural forms like “yous.” This investigation, based on a 1.9 billion-word corpus, explores these forms across 20 varieties of English, uncovering their distribution and role in the speaker-hearer relationship.
Psycholinguistic Approaches to the Study of Linguistic Structures
How do we understand uncommon or ambiguous language? This volume brings together cutting-edge studies that untangle how speakers with different profiles understand and use linguistic structures, and offers an overview of the experimental techniques used in their study.
Teaching Translation
A strategic guide for teachers through the complexities of translation studies. This book champions a student-centric pedagogy, aligning methods with the field’s evolving demands through technology, digital tools, and innovative methods like gamification and online learning.
Current Research in African Linguistics
Honoring Ọladele Awobuluyi, international scholars present new research in African linguistics. This important contribution presents data and linguistic analysis from many African languages, covering topics from phonology and morphology to syntax and semantics.
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.
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is a necessary skill for career advancement. This comprehensive volume brings together insightful papers from an international conference, offering rich insights into innovative teaching practices and worthwhile research.
The Practice of Foreign Language Teaching
For teachers of modern languages, this volume analyzes foreign language education, multicultural competence, and new teaching approaches. It provides the theoretical background and practical solutions needed to choose the best resources for the L2 classroom.
Innovation in Methodology and Practice in Language Learning
This state-of-the-art volume presents 24 papers on the challenges and innovations in university language centres, from new technologies to evolving pedagogy, revealing how these vital institutions adapt and thrive.
Teaching, Learning and Investigating Pragmatics
This collection of research investigates how to teach and assess pragmatic competence in second/foreign language education. Topics include speech acts, syllabus design, and instructional methods. For linguists, language teachers, and communication experts.
This volume addresses current issues in language acquisition, presenting insights into L1, 2L1, and L2/L3 learning in typical and atypical circumstances. It will be of interest to students and researchers in language acquisition, as well as to speech therapists.
This volume explores communication, meaning-making, and the construction of identity and gender through language. It examines language in context, from media discourse to fiction, and delves into the lexico-grammatical specificities of Romanian set against other languages.
Social-Ecological Resilience to Climate Change
This book offers fresh insight into climate change communication. It investigates the online discourse of grassroots activists, exploring the positive outlook of social-ecological resilience compared to other narratives in the ongoing climate debate.
A tool for teachers in the multicultural classroom, this book focuses on cross-cultural communicative competency. It provides a foundation for teaching English as a lingua franca in the age of globalization, bringing pluralism and multiculturalism center stage.
Why do bilinguals code-switch? This book proposes a model where one language builds the grammatical frame while the other is activated at a lexical level. This view is tested by analyzing natural speech and second language acquisition data, treating both as predictable outcomes.
This collection of papers explores language use and attitudes towards it from both historical and present-day perspectives. It examines language in personal letters, the impact of usage guides, and the interplay between actual language use and prescriptive attitudes.
Developmental Dyslexia and Anaphora Resolution in English L1/L2
This book investigates how people with dyslexia resolve ambiguous sentences. Using innovative methods like eye-tracking, it hypothesizes that their known working memory impairment hinders procedural memory, disrupting semantic and syntactic competence in demanding reading tasks.
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