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This book offers a range of perspectives and insights from around the world on the teaching and learning of listening, speaking, reading and writing. It brings together contributors from across six continents, who analyse a wide range of teaching and learning contexts,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-10
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How is our language affected by our ethnicity, gender, and region?How are our conversations and other interactions structured?How does society view and regulate language?How do we use language to present ourselves to others? In this revised and updated second edition of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-11-09
Collection :
Linguistics in the World
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This book analyses the emotional message of Hungarian folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective, employing a wide range of empirical devices. It combines theoretical notions with analytical devices and has a multidisciplinary essence: it relies on the latest...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This book employs the realm of English Language Teaching (ELT) as a discursive point of departure to explore how individuals, groups, entities and institutions apprehend, embrace, deal with, manipulate, problematize and resist glocal flows of people, ideas, information,...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This book provides readers a better understanding of the interaction-learning relationship in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. It introduces theories on input, output, and learners’ internal mechanisms, and presents the pedagogical implications of how to...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-11-01
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English Words is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study ofEnglish words from a theoretically informed linguistic perspective. accessibly written to give students a command of basic theory, skills in analyzingEnglish words, and the foundation needed...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-11-01
Collection :
The Language Library
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This introduction to the expanding field of literacy studies has been fully revised for the second edition. It explores recent developments and new research that has contributed to our understanding of literacy practices, reflecting on the interdisciplinary growth of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-11-01
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This original volume examines forms and limits of human inquiry from a largely sceptical point of view. Human beings are endowed with cognitive agency. Our grasp of the world, and of ourselves, are not merely responses to external stimuli; they are reflective...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book explores the linguistic ecology of the Kumaun region of Uttarakhand, India through the experiences and discourses of minority youth and their educators. Providing in-depth examples of Indian multilingualism, this volume analyses how each language is valued in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-27
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This book examines classical and modern interpretations of education in the context of contemporary Okinawa as a site of neoliberal military-industrial development. Considering how media educate consumers to accept the plans and policies of the powerful, it questions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-27
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This book explores the experiences of Indigenous children and young adults around the world as they navigate the formal education system and wider society. Profiling a range of different communities and sociolinguistic contexts, this book examines the language ecologies...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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This book provides a timely political insight to show how mythology plays an affective role in our lives. Brexit, bankers, institutional scandals, the far right, and Russell Brand’s “revolution” are just some of the issues tackled through this innovative and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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Chapters in this volume describe morphology using four different frameworks that have an architectural property in common: they all use defaults as a way of discovering and presenting systematicity in the least systematic component of grammar. These frameworks -...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-13
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This study makes a linguistic case for the twentieth century revolution in Chinese language and literature. It offers a history of reform and change in the Chinese language throughout the country’s history, and focuses on the concept of ‘baihua’, a language reform...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-09
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This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in contemporary European Portuguese and earlier stages of Portuguese. Adriana Cardoso offers a comparative account of three linguistic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-06
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This volume examines two main questions: What is linguistics about? And how do the results of linguistic theorizing bear on inquiry in related fields, particularly in psychology? The book develops views that depart from received wisdom in both philosophy and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-05
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This book offers a unique perspective on creativity in an educational environment where there is a relative dearth of literature on this subject. The authors link practice and principle to provide a practical and valuable guide for more creative language learning and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-05
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This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues. Based on research findings from cross-linguistic semantics, it contains...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-03
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Studies of bilingual behavior have been proliferating for decades, yet short shrift has been given to its major manifestation, the incorporation of words from one language into the discourse of another.
This volume redresses that imbalance by going straight to the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-02
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This volume accentuates how ELT materials can be a mediation of capitalizing on moral and cultural values, which are more locally-grounded in respective Southeast Asia (SEA) countries. It features critical studies on locally-produced ELT materials (textbooks) situated...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-27
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