Study & Teaching

This work is a thorough investigation and comparison of intonational features of two varieties of English: the English spoken by speakers of educated Southern British English and the English spoken by native speakers of Finnish. The investigation is...

Despite widespread agreement about the need to develop interculturally competent graduates, there is a lack of agreement about how this goal may be achieved in practice. This is significant as universities around the world, particularly in...

This book presents a longitudinal research which covers a linguistic approach to understand and observe language learner agency. It makes connections between agency in discourse analyses and agency in applied linguistics by examining how learner agency...

This book showcases how language learner agency can be understood and researched from varying perspectives by providing, for the first time, a collection of diverse approaches in one volume. The volume is organised into three main sections:the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800996939Author Rhiannon IfansFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 35mm

This study examines the use of English in Switzerland from a multilingual perspective based on a corpus of 400 interviews collected in the German speaking Canton of Zurich. It presents a framework for explaining the linguistic interaction that arises as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902031217Author Ceri JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint CILT, the National Centre for LanguagesPublisher CILT PublicationsWeight(grams) 199g

This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and, at the same time, in-depth examination of the spread of English and English language education across Greater China. It consists of two parts. Part 1 presents rich sociolinguistic data for easy...

The articles in this volume are the proceedings of a conference on 'Translation in Second Language Teaching and Learning' that took place at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, in March 2008. The papers delivered at the conference, the...

Assessment is omnipresent and multifaceted in contemporary institutions of higher education. This collection provides a sound and revealing overview of language and (inter-)cultural assessment practices in European higher education and beyond (Australia,...

In the context of foreign language education, the importance of cultural and literary studies has grown continuously in our globalising world. Language educators and researchers are looking into ways in which inter- and transcultural awareness and...

This edited volume brings together researchers and practitioners who work in various linguistic frameworks and EAP contexts, with contributions from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, UAE, the UK, Ukraine and the USA. It extends existing...

This new edition of Teaching Languages Online supports the professional development of language educators as they teach all or part of their courses online. Containing extensive additions, this revised edition includes new models, illustrations and...

Multilinguals are not multiple monolinguals. Yet multilingual assessment proceeds through monolingual norms, as if fair conclusions were possible in the absence of fair comparison. In addition, multilingualism concerns what people do with language, not...

Language acquisition has been the subject of decades of research. Most of the previous research on second language acquisition has centered around adult learners, leaving child learners understudied by comparison. This book focuses on child second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765721674Author Xiao WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765743874Author Don LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This book received the XV Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (XV Premio de Investigacion de la Asociacion Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada) 2012. The present volume bears witness to the Europewide character of the Content...

Toy Team provides the perfect introduction to learning English. Each morning, Archie and his friends discover something that leads them on an exciting adventure. Fun songs, story animations, and edutainer song videos provide varied content to keep...

Toy Team provides the perfect introduction to learning English. Each morning, Archie and his friends discover something that leads them on an exciting adventure. Fun songs, story animations, and edutainer song videos provide varied content to keep...

Toy Team provides the perfect introduction to learning English. Each morning, Archie and his friends discover something that leads them on an exciting adventure. Fun songs, story animations, and edutainer song videos provide varied content to keep...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780194151627Author Susan Banman SileciFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780194151566Author Patrick JacksonFormat PaperbackImprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 275mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780194151559Author Kathleen KampaFormat PaperbackImprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 275mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780194151573Author Patrick JacksonFormat PaperbackImprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 216gDimensions(mm) 275mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780194151580Author Patrick JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)...

Toy Team provides the perfect introduction to learning English. Each morning, Archie and his friends discover something that leads them on an exciting adventure. Fun songs, story animations, and edutainer song videos provide varied content to keep...

Toy Team provides the perfect introduction to learning English. Each morning, Archie and his friends discover something that leads them on an exciting adventure. Fun songs, story animations, and edutainer song videos provide varied content to keep...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780194151641Author Kathleen KampaFormat PaperbackImprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 275mm *...

Toy Team provides the perfect introduction to learning English. Each morning, Archie and his friends discover something that leads them on an exciting adventure. Fun songs, story animations, and edutainer song videos provide varied content to keep...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780194151597Author Patrick JacksonFormat PaperbackImprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 216gDimensions(mm) 275mm *...

Previously, most studies in this area have focused on the reciprocal effects of language teachers' emotions, identity, well-being and agency, with emotions often being portrayed as consequential entities. However, this book advances the field by...

This book presents a pragmatic perspective on the development of intercultural communicative competence and intercultural understanding by language learners in the foreign language classroom and in study abroad contexts. Using data from role-play...

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT (R)) competition is an annual academic speaking competition that challenges graduate students to present their thesis and its significance to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes. In The Three Minute Thesis in the...

A highly innovative approach to Classical Greek for beginning studentsBook InformationISBN 9780472082667Author Gerda SeligsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

The value of using stories in in language education is well-documented, but in Using Wisdom Stories in Language Teacher Education Alan Maley explores how one particular kind of story can be a useful resource for teacher training and teacher development...

Essays on teaching the most influential vampire novel of all timeThis volume helps teachers contextualize Bram Stoker's Dracula in its historical and cultural moment, considering psychology, technology, gender roles, colonialism, and anxieties about the...

Essays on teaching the most influential vampire novel of all timeThis volume helps teachers contextualize Bram Stoker's Dracula in its historical and cultural moment, considering psychology, technology, gender roles, colonialism, and anxieties about the...

Essays on teaching a major Portuguese writerThe writings of Fernando Pessoa, one of Portugal's most renowned authors, stand alongside other significant works of modernist world literature and offer a view into the specific milieu of...

Occitan lyric poetry for language learnersA Troubadour Reader, a supplement to William D. Paden's Introduction to Old Occitan, provides a diverse selection of thirty medieval lyric poems in Occitan for language learners. Featuring poems by women, poems...