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Rethinking Language Policy by Bernard Spolsky
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.32The definitive guide to the field of language policy, rich with examples Explores a theory of language policy starting with the individual speaker rather than the nation Draws on a range of... -
The Languages of Jerusalem by Bernard Spolsky 9780198239086
Booksplease Price: £87.43The Old City of Jerusalem, small and densely populated, is a complex microcosm of Israeli society. It is a multilingual community characterized by unequal power relations between the speakers of the... -
Language Policy by Bernard Spolsky 9780521804615
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Language policy is an issue of critical importance in the world today. In this introduction, Bernard Spolsky explores many debates at the forefront of language policy: ideas of correctness and bad... -
Language Policy by Bernard Spolsky 9780521011754
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.81Language policy is an issue of critical importance in the world today. In this introduction, Bernard Spolsky explores many debates at the forefront of language policy: ideas of correctness and bad... -
Language Management by Bernard Spolsky 9780521735971
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £43.00Language policy is all about choices. If you are bilingual or plurilingual, you have to choose which language to use. Even if you speak only one language, you have choices of dialects and styles... -
Language Management by Bernard Spolsky 9780521516099
RRP: £101.00Booksplease Price: £96.19Language policy is all about choices. If you are bilingual or plurilingual, you have to choose which language to use. Even if you speak only one language, you have choices of dialects and styles... -
The Handbook of Educational Linguistics by Bernard Spolsky
RRP: £47.95Booksplease Price: £44.72The Handbook of Educational Linguistics is a dynamic, scientifically grounded overview revealing the complexity of this growing field while remaining accessible for students, researchers, language... -
The Languages of Diaspora and Return by Bernard Spolsky 9789004338388
Booksplease Price: £76.01Until quite recently, the term Diaspora (usually with the capital) meant the dispersion of the Jews in many parts of the world. Now, it is recognized that many other groups have built communities... -
The Languages of the Jews: A Sociolinguistic History by Bernard Spolsky 9781107699953
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45Historical sociolinguistics is a comparatively new area of research, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices in speech and writing. Jewish historical sociolinguistics... -
Language and Education in Multilingual Settings by Bernard Spolsky 9780905028583
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.32The difference between languages that children learn in the home (their mother tongues) and the languages valued by society and established as the medium of instruction in schools is an almost... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy by Bernard Spolsky 9781108454117
Booksplease Price: £45.12Over the last fifty years, language policy has developed into a major discipline, drawing on research and practice in many nations and at many levels. This is the first Handbook to deal with language... -
The Languages of the Jews: A Sociolinguistic History by Bernard Spolsky 9781107055445
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.13Historical sociolinguistics is a comparatively new area of research, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices in speech and writing. Jewish historical sociolinguistics... -
The Languages of Israel: Policy Ideology and Practice by Bernard Spolsky 9781853594519
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £31.63This book is an original and comprehensive treatment of the languages of Israel - of the practice and of the ideology. Against the background of an original theory of language policy set out in the... -
Secondary School English Education in Asia: From policy to practice by Bernard Spolsky 9781138576667
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Continuing on from the previously published Primary School English-Language Education in Asia: From Policy to Practice (Moon & Spolsky, 2012), this book compiles the proceedings which took place at... -
Primary School English-Language Education in Asia: From Policy to Practice Bernard Spolsky 9780415629683
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08In Asia, English is no longer a foreign language but a key resource for education, government, business and the general public. Whereas thirty years ago, British and American experts believed that... -
Language and Communication in Israel by Hanna Herzog
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.79The sociology of language and the sociology of communication are well-established fields in Israeli sociology, but it is only recently that their departments have grown vigorously in Israel's various... -
Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning: Volume III Eli Hinkel (Seattle Pacific University, USA) 9781138859821
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £127.83Volume III of the Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning, like Volumes I and II, is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current research into social contexts of... -
The Asian EFL Classroom: Issues, Challenges and Future Expectations by Soo-Ok Kweon
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book offers an insight into the 21st century teaching and learning of English in Asia. Despite English being widely recognized as a lingua franca in this era of globalization, the general EFL... -
Multilingual Israel?: Old Ideologies and New Realities Iair G. Or 9781788929097
RRP: £139.95Booksplease Price: £124.98Engages directly with the delicate intersections between homogenizing state policies and the extraordinary linguistic diversity on the ground. This book provides the most comprehensive overview... -
Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages?: Policy and Practice on Four Continents by Nancy H. Hornberger 9780230285002
Booksplease Price: £46.28This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hnahnoe in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages... -
The Sociology of Language and Religion: Change, Conflict and Accommodation by Tope Omoniyi 9780230516991
Booksplease Price: £46.74This is an eclectic collection of essays which successfully demonstrate how the Sociology of Language and Religion as a disciplinary paradigm responds to change, conflict and accommodation. The... -
Doing Research within Communities: Stories and lessons from language and education field research by Kerry Taylor-Leech
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Doing Research within Communities provides real-life examples of field research projects in language and education, offering an overview of research processes and solutions to the common challenges... -
English Education at the Tertiary Level in Asia: From Policy to Practice by Eun Sung Park 9781138365803
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This is the third volume of a trilogy on English Language education in Asia within the Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education. Put together by editors and contributors selected by Asia TEFL,... -
Re-examining Language Testing: A Philosophical and Social Inquiry Glenn Fulcher (University of Leicester, UK) 9781138774704
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Winner of the SAGE/ILTA Book Award 2016Re-examining Language Testing explores ideas that form the foundations of language testing and assessment. The discussion is framed within the philosophical and... -
Research Methods in Language Policy and Planning: A Practical Guide Francis M. Hult (University of Texas at San Antonio, TX) 9781118308394
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £38.81This is the first volume exclusively devoted to research methods in language policy and planning (LPP). Each chapter is written by a leading language policy expert and provides a how-to guide to... -
Family Language Policies in a Multilingual World: Opportunities, Challenges, and Consequences by John Macalister
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Through case studies from around the world, this book illustrates the opportunities and challenges facing families negotiating the issues of language maintenance and language learning in the home... -
Language and the Law: Linguistic Inequality in America by Douglas A. Kibbee
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.78Language policy is a topic of growing importance around the world, as issues such as the recognition of linguistic diversity, the establishment of official languages, the status of languages in... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Language Education Policy in Asia by 9781032338460
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This must-have handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the field. It reviews the language education policies of Asia, encompassing 30 countries sub-divided by regions, namely East, Southeast, South... -
The Multilingual Turn: Implications for SLA, TESOL, and Bilingual Education Stephen May 9780415534321
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Drawing on the latest developments in bilingual and multilingual research, The Multilingual Turn offers a critique of, and alternative to, still-dominant monolingual theories, pedagogies and... -
English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia: Global Challenges and Local Responses by Amy Bik May Tsui
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £98.84The spread of English is so much an integral part of globalization that it has become an essential global literacy skill. In Asia, this poses immense challenges to governments and English language... -
English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia: Global Challenges and Local Responses by Amy Bik May Tsui 9781108790598
Booksplease Price: £23.27The spread of English is so much an integral part of globalization that it has become an essential global literacy skill. In Asia, this poses immense challenges to governments and English language... -
Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers' Choices by Florian Coulmas
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £36.75Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages students to think... -
The Politics of Arabic in Israel: A Sociolinguistic Analysis by Camelia Suleiman 9781474420860
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Arabic became a minority language overnight in Israel in 1948, as a result of the Palestinian exodus from their land that year. Although it remains an official language, along with Hebrew, Israel has... -
The Welsh Language Commissioner in Context: Roles, Methods and Relationships by Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost 9781783169047
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21This research monograph is the first authoritative work on the office of the Welsh Language Commissioner and the associated Welsh language regulatory and statutory regime. In setting the Commissioner... -
Language and Globalization: An Autoethnographic Approach by Maryam Borjian 9781138227804
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £123.25In this collection of real-life, personal narratives on the theme of language and globalization, scholars from a range of different sub-disciplines of linguistics, time periods, and geographical... -
The Handbook of Applied Linguistics Alan Davies (Late of University of Edinburgh) 9781405138093
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £49.21The Handbook of Applied Linguistics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the field of Applied Linguistics. Provides a comprehensive... -
Language and Globalization: An Autoethnographic Approach Maryam Borjian (Columbia University, New York, USA) 9781138227811
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08In this collection of real-life, personal narratives on the theme of language and globalization, scholars from a range of different sub-disciplines of linguistics, time periods, and geographical... -
Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties by Kendall A. King 9781589011922
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.75In the last three decades, the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations,... -
The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader Li Wei 9780415566209
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.60The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader is an essential collection of readings for students of Applied Linguistics. Divided into five sections: Language Teaching and Learning, Second Language... -
Multilingual Education and Sustainable Diversity Work: From Periphery to Center by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08This very original, inspirational book globalises our understanding of languages in education and changes our understanding of bilingual and multilingual education from something mostly western to...