Language Arts in Asia
This book explores Language Arts as an English-teaching paradigm, focusing on its recent adoption in Asian contexts. Its chapters explore current topics like multiliteracies and critical thinking, strengthening theoretical foundations for teachers and scholars.
Language Arts in Asia 2
This volume presents contemporary research in Language Arts for English teaching. Using motivating materials like literature, drama, comics, anime, and film, it explores how to develop language mastery, critical thinking, and intercultural sensitivity.
Language as a Complex System
To investigate language, we must cross academic boundaries. This book connects and integrates linguistics, biology, and computation to boost the interchange of knowledge between specialists, providing innovative tools and models to approach the study of language.
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.
Language at Work
This title outlines recent linguistic research in a cross-section of institutions, including museums, schools, and universities, to investigate the language of the workplace and public institutions.
Language beyond the Classroom
This compendium offers detailed, how-to guides for developing, implementing, and evaluating service-learning programs for a variety of languages. Contributions here present civic-engagement programs for several languages, including French, German, Russian, and Spanish.
Language Contact
When speakers of different languages interact, their languages influence each other. This can range from exchanging words to altering grammar, sometimes leading to language death. This volume unites distinguished scholars to offer a multidimensional exploration of the field.
Language Contact
This volume discusses theoretical and methodological models of language contact, focusing on mobility and borders. It explores the social effects of migration on multilingualism, and the relation between language, culture, and identity from different perspectives.
This book proposes an innovative approach to contact linguistics and bilingualism. Focusing on the bilingual mind, it examines phenomena like codeswitching and second language acquisition to reveal the universal principles governing how languages in contact influence each other.
This volume offers a cross-disciplinary insight into language contact research, bringing together studies on language variation, second language acquisition, and translation. It creates a dialogue between researchers, viewing language contact from a broader perspective.
Language Contacts Meet English Dialects
This book presents fresh research on language contacts and dialects, celebrating the work of eminent scholar Markku Filppula. Articles explore theories, Celtic substrata in Irish and British English, and dialect in the British Isles from diverse perspectives.
Once denigrated, the Ryukyuan languages are now severely endangered by oppressive policies. This volume depicts the history of the crisis, shedding light on the dark side of modernization and a misplaced obsession with monolingualism.
Language Education and the Challenges of Globalisation
This book focuses on sociolinguistic issues linked to language education in the age of globalisation. It examines these in contexts of immigration and super-diversity, providing a useful look at the current state of the art for scholars and students.
Language Education Today
For modern language teachers, these essays explore the tension between linguistic identity and multilingualism, covering language education, English language teaching, and key linguistic issues.
Language for Specific Purposes
This volume aligns three aspects of Language for Specific Purposes: translation, linguistic research, and domain-specific web communication. It presents work in various LSP areas, like legal discourse, highlighting issues of specialised communication and its social implications.
Language in Action
This volume presents a critical analysis of the relationship between language and action, building on the Vygotskian and Leontievian legacy. It sheds light on human activity and the role language has in mediating what we think, do, and learn.
Language in Focus
Presenting papers from an applied linguistics conference, this book addresses the issues that emerge from the need to apply new approaches, theoretical concepts and methods to educational issues.
Language in Uniform
Around the globe, police and military personnel face language challenges. Language in Uniform brings together papers on language analysis, teaching, and assessment for defence, security, and law enforcement, extending our understanding of this vital field.
Language in Use
This collection explores applications of metaphor in a variety of contexts and types of discourse, against a multitude of cultural backgrounds.
Language in Use
This collection of studies analyzes the discourse of youth entertainment magazines, revealing distinctive features that may exert a manipulative influence. It aims to develop media literacy, equipping young readers to become responsible and less vulnerable.
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