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.
International scholars share diverse perspectives on discourse, translation studies, and education. This volume will enrich the reader’s worldview and provide a plethora of creative ideas for anyone interested in philology, literary translation, and university-level teaching.
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.
Classroom Practice and Teacher Cognition
This collection bridges the gap between abstract research and classroom practice. Written by full-time language educators, it presents accessible findings from their own teaching that will resonate with both practicing teachers and academics.
Master unpredictable English pronunciation. This book demystifies the rules of English sounds for non-native learners, helping you improve your speech. Includes practical exercises with corrections, making it an essential guide for both students and teachers.
Learn about the most recent developments in English Language Teaching. Aimed at academics and educators, this book explores contemporary ideas and approaches, from creative techniques to cutting-edge technologies, providing theoretical foundations and real-world applications.
The uncanny is what is frightening, yet it arises from the familiar, disturbing our sense of home and self as unresolved pasts resurface. This book explores representations of the uncanny in language, literature, and culture.
This collection of essays highlights education’s role as a cornerstone of society, crucial for human and social development. The book explains various pedagogical prescriptions for improving the human condition by exploring the key relationship between the school and society.
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.
Bridging the Gap between L2 Acquisition and Processing
This volume offers a critical review of research in second language (L2) acquisition and processing, focusing on differences between L1 and L2. Examining syntax, morphology, and speaking skills, it provides valuable perspectives for researchers, educators, and students.
This book offers a comprehensive delineation of Persian syntax using the Principles & Parameters approach. It examines Universal Grammar and its significant implications for first and second language acquisition, translation, and language typology.
The Social Action-Oriented Approach in Language Teaching
First introduced by the CEFR, the social action-oriented approach is a new methodology for language teaching. This book explains its origins, development, and how to implement it in textbooks, classrooms, and curricula. A useful resource for all language professionals.
Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Language Acquisition
This volume presents original research in language acquisition, connecting linguistic theory with experimental work. It covers diverse learners and languages, offering novel insights to psycholinguists and theoretical linguists on how language is acquired and processed.
This book offers lenses to look at how you speak. It explores your “Speaking Ego”—your approach, emotions, manner, and content. Through flexible lessons, you will build your own “spoken stroke” and improve your speech for any situation, in any language.
This volume brings together language research from theorists and practitioners. Drawing on authentic data, the articles analyze language structure and the construction of text and identity in teaching, writing, and translation. A valuable resource for students and specialists.
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic transformed education. This book showcases invaluable insights and solutions for language educators and learners, exploring the strategies that defined language learning during a global crisis and providing a roadmap for the future of education.
A sequel to the well-received *Schools of Linguistics*, this book shows how the subject has changed. Old “schools” have made way for a more diverse field, and Sampson offers a sampler describing two dozen of the most interesting innovations to emerge in the present century.
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.
Drawing from experience and analysis of TED talks, Ran Fan presents a groundbreaking approach to turning presentations into career-launching showcases. This guide offers educators practical strategies to foster confident speakers ready to captivate any audience.
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.