L2 Writing Assessment
When reading and spelling problems are not detected early, they can become lifelong disabilities. Early intervention is the key. This book is a practical guide for educators to identify such problems and use active writing programmes for instruction and assessment.
These thirteen short stories from great writers help us see the world in new, exciting ways. The book integrates literary competence, communicative competence, and critical thinking skills, equipping the reader to read, write, and communicate more effectively.
Master English phrasal verbs. This comprehensive resource provides a list of verbs with easy definitions, usage examples, and exercises. It’s an essential tool for non-native speakers seeking to achieve native-like fluency and master an unpredictable part of the language.
This book explores proper names: what they are, why we need them, and how they work. It focuses on the use of names in our thoughts and in communication, as tools we use to single out objects of discourse and convey information about them.
This linguistic study is for anyone interested in cognitive semantics and pragmatics. It establishes a relationship between illocutionary and discursive features of speech acts, emphasizing the shift from arbitrariness to iconicity of linguistic expressions.
Analysing Health Discourse in Digital Environments
How is the digital world changing our conversations about health? This collection analyzes online interactions to reveal the subtle yet profound shifts reshaping health communication today.
This book explores the ontological foundation of signs, a semiotic perspective that opens the way to culture. It extends the reader’s understanding by moving beyond classical definitions of the “sign” and will appeal to anyone concerned with understanding human nature.
This book explores the relationship between learner variables and English attainment in a CLIL setting. Based on empirical research, it addresses unresolved issues, dispels myths, and offers recommendations for researchers, educators, and CLIL teachers.
This book shows how formal, non-formal, and informal education shape bilingual minds. It examines how societies influence language education, covering foreign language schooling, native bilingualism, and societal stances towards bilingualism.
This book provides new insights into hybrid place-names in England. It uncovers patterns of formation, investigating the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, and Norman French layers of toponymy. It will appeal to historians, linguists, and local history enthusiasts.
This book analyzes hateful speech in postcolonial settings like Brazil. Through empirical analysis of online and offline attacks and resistance, it shows how global and local flows fuse into tangled issues, such as the sexist violence permeating contemporary political struggles.
Pragmatic Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
This book analyzes and compares the language styles, politeness, and directness used by English and Slovak presenters on live television. Because the shows are unscripted, their language is more natural, and the results contribute to sociolinguistic research worldwide.
Language Teaching and Language Use in Non-Native Settings
From Cameroon to Turkey, this volume illuminates the gap between teaching norms and real-life language use. It underscores the limitations of current methods and provides well-matched answers to classroom problems for teachers, researchers, and educational policy makers.
Granting Our Students an Engaging Learning Experience Online
A practical guide for language teachers to successfully develop and deliver online courses. This book offers strategies to engage students, foster collaborative learning, and improve the online experience, sharing the author’s most successful personal techniques.
Education today needs a re-thinking. This book presents EUFICCS, an innovative, full-immersion approach to language and culture teaching. This holistic path empowers students with the intercultural and democratic competences necessary to function as future global citizens.
Vocabulary Strategy Training to Enhance Second Language Acquisition in English as a Foreign Language
This volume reviews studies on vocabulary learning strategies, provides new research on their effectiveness, and proposes a practical training program. With exercises and examples, it illustrates their utility in the foreign language classroom for teachers and learners.
This book investigates the acquisition of Tense and Agreement in Spanish and Catalan from a Minimalism Program perspective. It argues that children have these functional categories at a very early stage, covering subject-verb agreement, clitic pronouns, and subject position.
Exploring Local Linguistic Scenery amongst Superdiversity
This book provides a linguistic snapshot of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, investigating its public signs from the perspective of linguistic landscaping studies. It focuses on the presence of foreign languages, especially English, in the context of globalization and super-diversity.
The first book to apply Bourdieu’s theory to management and innovation. It links his concepts to a practical toolkit of methods, showing researchers and students how to model organisational systems and perform business ethnographies from a Bourdieusian perspective.
This collection of research papers consists of three parts. The first is devoted to language teaching and teacher education. The second section explores literary and cultural issues, while the third part encompasses linguistic and media discourse studies.