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Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work Beatriz P. Lorente 9781783098989
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration of women from the Philippines to Singapore, the book... -
Social Context and Fluency in L2 Learners: The Case of Wales by Lynda Pritchard Newcombe 9781853599941
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.32Social context, an often-neglected dimension in L2 learning/use, can play a vital role in sustaining learners' initial motivation. As researchers have begun to shift their focus from teaching to... -
The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict and Change Lid King 9781783094769
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63This book is an exploration of the vitality of multilingualism and of its critical importance in and for contemporary cities. It examines how the city has emerged as a key driver of the multilingual... -
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control: Language Policy, Identity and Belonging by Markus Rheindorf
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.32In the midst of an international crisis in migration policy - widely referred to as a 'refugee crisis' - this book brings together timely analyses of the manifold and yet specific ways in which... -
Language, Culture and Identity in Two Chinese Community Schools: More than One Way of Being Chinese? Sara Ganassin 9781788927222
RRP: £119.95Booksplease Price: £99.76This book investigates the social, political and educational role of community language education in migratory contexts. It draws on an ethnographic study that investigates the significance of... -
A Practical Guide for Translators by Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown 9781847692597
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £22.66This is the fifth revised edition of the best-selling A Practical Guide for Translators. It looks at the profession of translator on the basis of developments over the last few years and encourages... -
European Vernacular Literacy: A Sociolinguistic and Historical Introduction by Joshua A Fishman 9781847692924
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £54.05In this major new text, Joshua Fishman charts the rise of vernacular literacy in Europe, and the major social, economic, religious, political, demographic, educational and philosophical changes that... -
Race and Ethnicity in English Language Teaching: Korea in Focus by Christopher Joseph Jenks 9781783098415
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63This book examines racism and racialized discourses in the ELT profession in South Korea. The book is informed by a number of different critical approaches to race and discourse, and the discussions... -
Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Deirdre Martin 9781847691590
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity takes a critical perspective on traditional bio-cognitive-social approaches to language disabilities - specific language impairment,... -
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control: Language Policy, Identity and Belonging by Markus Rheindorf 9781788924672
RRP: £102.95Booksplease Price: £91.11In the midst of an international crisis in migration policy - widely referred to as a 'refugee crisis' - this book brings together timely analyses of the manifold and yet specific ways in which... -
Deep Culture: The Hidden Challenges of Global Living by Joseph Shaules 9781847690166
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.32A straightforward guide to understanding the hidden cultural challenges of adapting to life abroad. Combining intercultural theory and the voices of sojourners who talk about their experiences, it... -
Becoming Diasporically Moroccan: Linguistic and Embodied Practices for Negotiating Belonging by Lauren Wagner 9781783098354
RRP: £119.95Booksplease Price: £107.61Questions persist about post-migrant generations and their sense of belonging in one homeland or another. As descendants of migrants, 'second' and further generations often struggle to establish an... -
Language Rights and the Law in the United States: Finding our Voices by Sandra del Valle
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.93This book is provides a comprehensive review of the legal status of minority languages in the U.S. It also provides the historical and political context for the legal manoeuvring that culminated in... -
Engaging Superdiversity: Recombining Spaces, Times and Language Practices Karel Arnaut 9781783096787
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £34.76This book is the fruition of five years' work in exploring the idea of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of... -
English as an International Language: Perspectives and Pedagogical Issues by Farzad Sharifian 9781847691224
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63The rapid global spread of the English language has serious linguistic, ideological, socio-cultural, political, and pedagogical implications as it creates both positive interactions and negative... -
The Multilingual Citizen: Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change by Lisa Lim 9781783099641
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £41.11In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers... -
The Politics of Language Education: Individuals and Institutions by Charles Alderson 9781847691422
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.32Politics can be a very important influence on educational developments and their deployment. However, this volume is different from other volumes since it looks, not at the macropolitics and the... -
Plagiarism, Intellectual Property and the Teaching of L2 Writing by Joel Bloch 9781847696519
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.32Plagiarism and intellectual property law are two issues that affect every student and every teacher throughout the world. Both concepts are concerned with how we use texts - print, digital, visual,... -
A Beginner's Guide to Language and Gender by Allyson Jule 9781783097869
RRP: £89.95Booksplease Price: £75.39In this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insights into the study of language and gender for those new to the subject. Students will gain a... -
A Beginner's Guide to Language and Gender by Allyson Jule 9781783097852
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £20.14In this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insights into the study of language and gender for those new to the subject. Students will gain a... -
Plagiarism, Intellectual Property and the Teaching of L2 Writing by Joel Bloch 9781847696526
RRP: £102.95Booksplease Price: £80.52Plagiarism and intellectual property law are two issues that affect every student and every teacher throughout the world. Both concepts are concerned with how we use texts - print, digital, visual,... -
English as an International Language: Perspectives and Pedagogical Issues by Farzad Sharifian 9781847691217
RRP: £119.95Booksplease Price: £93.49The rapid global spread of the English language has serious linguistic, ideological, socio-cultural, political, and pedagogical implications as it creates both positive interactions and negative... -
Language Teacher Identities: Co-constructing Discourse and Community by Matthew Clarke 9781847690814
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.88Set in the rapidly changing world of the contemporary United Arab Emirates and bringing together detailed linguistic analysis with cutting edge social theory, this book explores the development of... -
Teachers as Mediators in the Foreign Language Classroom Michelle Kohler 9781783093052
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63Language teachers are key figures in preparing young people for participation in an increasingly multilingual and culturally diverse world, yet little is known about how they go about this in... -
Intercultural Dialogue in Practice: Managing Value Judgment through Foreign Language Education by Stephanie Ann Houghton
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63The term intercultural dialogue has become a buzzword at policy level, but there is a pressing need to synchronise the terminology of policymakers with that of academics. An overarching aim of this... -
Growing up with God and Empire: A Postcolonial Analysis of 'Missionary Kid' Memoirs by Stephanie Vandrick
RRP: £102.95Booksplease Price: £91.11This book analyzes the memoirs of 42 'missionary kids' - the children of North American Protestant missionaries in countries all over the world during the 20th century. Using a postcolonial lens the... -
European Vernacular Literacy: A Sociolinguistic and Historical Introduction by Joshua A Fishman 9781847692917
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34In this major new text, Joshua Fishman charts the rise of vernacular literacy in Europe, and the major social, economic, religious, political, demographic, educational and philosophical changes that... -
Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity by Deirdre Martin 9781847691606
RRP: £119.95Booksplease Price: £107.61Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity takes a critical perspective on traditional bio-cognitive-social approaches to language disabilities - specific language impairment,... -
Language Planning and Policy in Native America: History, Theory, Praxis by Teresa L. McCarty 9781847698629
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63Comprehensive in scope and rich in detail, this book explores language planning, language education, and language policy for diverse Native American peoples across time, space, and place. Based on... -
A Practical Guide for Translators by Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown 9781847692603
RRP: £102.95Booksplease Price: £91.11This is the fifth revised edition of the best-selling A Practical Guide for Translators. It looks at the profession of translator on the basis of developments over the last few years and encourages... -
Second Language Pronunciation Assessment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Talia Isaacs 9781783096831
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £36.82This book is open access under a CC BY licence. It spans the areas of assessment, second language acquisition (SLA) and pronunciation and examines topical issues and challenges that relate to formal... -
A World of Indigenous Languages: Politics, Pedagogies and Prospects for Language Reclamation by Teresa L. McCarty
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £29.89Spanning Indigenous settings in Africa, the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Central Asia and the Nordic countries, this book examines the multifaceted language reclamation work underway by... -
Learning and Using Languages in Ethnographic Research Robert Gibb 9781788925907
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63Learning and Using Languages in Ethnographic Research breaks the silence that still surrounds learning a language for ethnographic research and in the process demystifies some of the multilingual... -
Online Intercultural Exchange: An Introduction for Foreign Language Teachers by Robert O'Dowd 9781847690098
RRP: £119.95Booksplease Price: £107.61This volume provides foreign language educators and classroom researchers with an introduction to online intercultural exchange, the activity of engaging foreign language learners in collaborative... -
Literacy Practices in Transition: Perspectives from the Nordic Countries by Anne Pitkanen-Huhta
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63Literacy Practices in Transition explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of... -
Social Actions for Classroom Language Learning by John Hellermann 9781847690265
RRP: £102.95Booksplease Price: £91.11Drawing on recent socio-cultural approaches to research on language learning and an extensive corpus of classroom video recording made over four years, the book documents language learning as an... -
Brokering Britain, Educating Citizens: Exploring ESOL and Citizenship by Melanie Cooke 9781788924627
RRP: £102.95Booksplease Price: £91.41This book addresses the politically charged issue of citizenship and English language learning among adult migrants in the UK. Whilst citizenship learning is inherent in English for Speakers of Other... -
Grammatical Profiles: Further Languages of LARSP by Martin J. Ball
RRP: £139.95Booksplease Price: £107.44This book brings together 12 previously unpublished language profiles based on the original Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP). The languages featured are: Bangla,... -
Language, Education and Neoliberalism: Critical Studies in Sociolinguistics Mi-Cha Flubacher 9781783098675
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £36.82This edited volume presents an empirical account of how neoliberal ideas are adopted on the ground by different actors in different educational settings, from bilingual education in the US, to... -
Multilingual Perspectives on Child Language Disorders by Janet L. Patterson 9781783094714
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £36.82This book investigates language disorders in children who speak languages other than, or in addition to, English. The chapters in the first section of the volume focus on language disorders...