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Untended gates
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Multimodality and multilingualism
Steph Ainsworth, Dominic Griffiths, Gee Macrory, Kate Pahl,This book explores the ways in which multimodality and multilingualism as areas of study intersect and provides empirical examples of how this looks in practice from a wide range of settings. It argues that the everyday practices of multilingual communities are multimodal in nature.
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Struggles for multilingualism and linguistic citizenship
Quentin Williams, Ana Deumert, Tommaso M. Milani,This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of linguistic citizenship. Each chapter illuminates how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with la...
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Rare tongues
Lorna Gibb,An enthralling tour of the world’s rarest and most endangered languagesLanguages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting unique perspectives and ways of life. Rare Tongues tells the stories of the world’s rare and vanishi...
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Engaging in critical language studies
John W. Schwieter, Jaime Antonio Rivera Flores, Paul Iida,The Readings in Language Studies series offers international perspectives on critical themes in language studies, including pedagogy, power, identity, and second language acquisition. Developed with the International Society for Language Studies, each volume features global authors and the latest...
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Indigenous language education in critical times
Julieta Briseño-Roa, Paulina Griñó, Vanessa Anthony-Stevens, José Antonio Flores Farfán,This book builds a space in which a diversity of voices – Indigenous teachers, activists and committed academics – are foregrounded in the processes of Indigenous education and language reclamation. It decenters state systems of education, thereby emphasizing diverse processes of language reclama...
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Trauma-informed leadership in libraries
Janet Crum, David H. Ketchum,Trauma-informed approaches to leadership seek to understand and consider an individual’s holistic life experiences, particularly negative consequences of trauma, when determining how to best support and interact with them in the workplace.
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Developing pronunciation teaching for international intelligibility
Jim Y. H. Chan, Margaret M. Lo,This book offers principled guidance for teachers and researchers in World English(es) and English as a Lingua Franca contexts on developing a feature-based approach to teaching English pronunciation for international intelligibility. Using Hong Kong English as a case study, it offers inquiry tas...
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Concept-based language instruction and genre-based second language writing pedagogy
J. Elliott Casal, Lindsey M. Kurtz, Xixin Qiu,This book presents an interdisciplinary, flexible and comprehensive framework for teaching second language (L2) and multilingual writing that integrates Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Writing Pedagogy. The authors show how L2 writing instructors can empower student writers to ...
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Teaching languages to students with specific learning differences
Judit Kormos, Anne Margaret Smith,This book is intended to help language teachers to work effectively and successfully with students who have Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs). It enables teachers to gain a thorough understanding of the nature of SpLDs and how these affect both general learning processes and the mechanisms of...
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Stories and lessons from the world’s leading opera, orchestra librarians, and music archivists, volume 2
Patrick Lo, Robert Sutherland, Wei-En Hsu, Russ Girsberger,The collection Stories and Lessons from the World’s Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, explores the current trends and practices in the field of music performance librarianship. A helpful resource to librarians, and archivists in a variety of situations in the world of per...
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Born-digital texts in the english language classroom
Saskia Kersten, Christian Ludwig,This book is the first to focus specifically on born-digital texts in EFL teaching, uniting innovative scholarship with practical classroom applications. The book develops a theoretically sound framework for curriculum, materials and methods design that takes into account the growing ubiquity of ...
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The craft of professional writing, second edition
Michael S. Malone,The Craft of Professional Writing, 2nd edition, is the most complete manual ever written for every form of professional (and professional quality) writing.
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Starting points in critical language pedagogy
Graham V. Crookes, Arman Abednia,This book helps prepare second language teachers to engage with critical language pedagogy. It starts from conventional L2 curriculum areas and extends to critical pedagogy. It includes teachers' experiences, voices, and practical strategies, making it accessible for beginners and experienced tea...
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Black teachers of english(es) in japan
Gregory Paul Glasgow,This book examines the trajectories of a transnational group of teachers of African descent who live and teach English in Japan. The author argues that while multiculturalism and diversity within ELT in Japan may seem to be gradually improving, raciolinguistic native-speakerism still affects the ...
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Motivation, autonomy and emotions in foreign language learning
Kata Csizér, Dávid Smid, Anna Zólyomi, Ágnes Albert,This book highlights the roles of individual difference variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students’ and the teachers’ perspectives. The comparative analysis of these two datasets yields interactional results that have the potential to shape classroom learnin...
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Tension-filled english at the multilingual university
Maria Kuteeva,This book explores the idea that English in the multilingual university is filled with and surrounded by tensions. Drawing on Bakhtin’s theory and examples from Sweden, it offers the reader a novel way of tracing the links between language perceptions and practices on the ground, and the forces a...
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Teaching and learning third languages
Francesca D'Angelo,Contributing to emerging research on third language acquisition, this book presents readers with a practical guide to understanding how these languages are processed, learned and taught. With examples from a range of learning contexts, it emphasises the role of teachers as bridges between educati...
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Hope and a future
Renee F. Hill,In a world that often questions the value of libraries and librarianship, this collection of reflective essays and future-focused research emphasizes the ways in which being an information professional continues to be a rewarding and vital profession.
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Multiliteracies in english as an additional language classrooms
Luciana C. de Oliveira, Ana Maria Menda, Cristiane Vicentini,This book offers practices and strategies for EAL classrooms, adaptable to various grade levels and backgrounds. It includes research and lessons from a professional learning program for Brazilian EFL teachers at the University of Miami, focusing on multiliteracies and innovative English language...
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Domestic workers talk
Kellie Gonçalves, Anne Ambler Schluter,Set in a multilingual cleaning company that serves Anglophone customers in the upper-(middle) class suburbs of New York City, this book presents an ethnographic study into power, language policy and communication from the perspectives of the Brazilian–American employer as well as the company’s Hi...
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The matter of practice
Curt Porter, Rachel Griffo,This book explores the relationship between matter and meaning, emphasizing spatial, bodily, and sensual dimensions of language and literacy. It challenges traditional barriers and invites new materialisms, aiming to expand our understanding of meaningful action through sensory engagement.
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Theorizing criminality and policing in the digital media age
Julie B. Wiest,Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS),this volume in Emerald Studies in Media and Communications features social science research on criminality, policing, and mass media in the digital age.
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Teachers of multiple languages
Eric K. Ku,This book presents narrative research on individual teachers of multiple languages (TMLs). It uncovers what makes TMLs unique and reveals the complex identities, beliefs and emotions involved in being a TML. The author offers new, globally-relevant insights for language teaching research at indiv...
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Exploring l1-l2 relationships
Richard L. Sparks,This book traces and summarizes the author’s theoretical insights and empirical findings in the field of foreign language education. The volume explores individual differences in L1 ability and their connection to L2 aptitude and L2 achievement, L2 anxiety as an affective or cognitive variable, a...
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Early professional development in efl teaching
Chitose Asaoka,This book examines the experiences of student teachers who are in the process of becoming secondary school English teachers in Japan. It identifies the challenges faced by the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) system in Japan, and suggests support and mediational activities that should be included ...
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Gobsmacked!
Ben Yagoda,A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms—for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America—from French fries to Awesome, man!—are destroying the English language. But what about the influence going the other way? Bri...
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Integrating e-portfolios into l2 classrooms
Ricky Lam,This book explains both the theory and practice of e-Portfolio pedagogy and assessment in second and foreign language classroom contexts. In addition to providing new insights for scholars of language pedagogy, the book equips language teachers with the practical knowledge and skills they need to...
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Language learning, digital communications and study abroad
Levi Durbidge,This book argues for a view of study abroad as emergent of tensions between localised and globalised imaginaries of language, identity, and place. It offers the first in-depth exploration of mobile technology's role in language learning and identity formation during study abroad.
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Making connections
John Corbett, Hugo Dart, Bruno Ferreira de Lima,This book is a practical, down-to-earth guide for language teachers interested in running online intercultural exchanges. It is informed by the latest research on language teaching and intercultural telecollaborations, and situated in the reality of classrooms around the world.
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Intercultural citizenship in language education
Kaishan Kong, Allison J. Spenader,This book explores Intercultural Citizenship across a variety of US learning contexts. The chapters, which comprise both conceptual and empirical studies, represent a wide variety of languages at levels ranging from beginner to advanced. They urge us to look at how Intercultural Citizenship enhan...
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School-based interventions for struggling readers, k-8
Evan Ortlieb, Earl H. Cheek Jr,The volume highlights best practices of literacy instruction for students who have difficulties in reading. From components of effective pedagogy to instruction for specific populations, this text offers an array of expert perspectives on how to engage, scaffold, and prepare students to meet the ...
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Language ideologies and l2 speaker legitimacy
Jae DiBello Takeuchi,This book examines dilemmas faced by second language Japanese speakers as a result of persistent challenges to their legitimacy as speakers of Japanese. It explores ideologies linked to three core speech styles of Japanese – keigo or polite language, gendered language and regional dialects – to s...
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The challenge of subtitling offensive and taboo language into spanish
José Javier Ávila-Cabrera,This book presents a clear and concise guide to understanding the concepts of offensive and taboo language and how this type of language can be subtitled into Spanish for Spain. It includes an array of examples from recent films and TV series as well as exercises which allow the reader to put the...
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Researching multilingually
Bridget Goodman, Brian Seilstad,This book examines what ‘researching multilingually’ means in practice and theory. The chapter authors reflect on the process of conducting, analyzing and reporting multilingual research in various settings, and propose new ways of understanding best practices while also addressing challenges and...
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English for academic purposes
Douglas E. Bell,This book provides readers with a critical and comprehensive overview of the historical development and ongoing trajectory of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). It examines a wide range of crucial topics in EAP, concluding with a glimpse into the future as the author considers the threats posed...
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Korean-english bilingualism in early childhood
Sunny K. Park-Johnson,This overview of the linguistic development of Korean-English bilingual children in the US focuses on morphology and syntax acquisition in early childhood, a time when language dominance is shifting rapidly. It expands our understanding of heritage language acquisition and furthers bilingualism r...
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Drama of multilingualism
Gabrijela Aleksić,This book synthesizes key topics in multilingualism, including translanguaging, language policy, and bilingual education. The author, an immigrant, integrates personal experiences and interviews with experts to highlight the impact of multilingualism on immigrants.
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Teacher development for content-based language education
Susan Ballinger, Ruth Fielding, Diane J. Tedick,This book brings together findings on content-based teacher education from international contexts to help prepare teachers for this challenging setting. It offers a solid grounding in theories and applications of content-based approaches, promoting further teacher-researcher collaboration and pro...
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The ecology of pre-primary foreign language learning
Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow,This book synthesises research on very early language learning in pre-primary organised instruction settings, using a framework of ecological development to investigate the nested systems in which very young learners operate and the influence of other agents on children’s foreign language learning.
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Multilingual classrooms for young children in the uk
Jieun Kiaer,This book is a call to action for educators, policymakers and parents, combining practical strategies with research-based insights to support its readers in advocating for multilingual education. It will enable teachers to combine technological innovations and the linguistic resources of their co...
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The deorhord
Hana Videen,An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained the same since medieval times. But the words used...
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Multilingual selves and motivations for learning languages other than english in asian contexts
Anas Hajar, Syed Abdul Manan,This book focuses on individuals learning languages other than English in a range of under-researched Asian contexts. The chapters explore learners’ motivational trajectories, multilingual identities and conceptualisations of the 'ideal multilingual self'.
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Sameness and repetition in contemporary media culture
Susana Tosca,The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Our culture has an uneasy relationship with repetition and sameness. On the one hand, we find familiarity pleasurable and soothing; on the other, we crave novelty and long for a sense of discovery. We blame algori...
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Transforming learning environments
Fayneese Miller, Carol Camp-Yeakey,With the influence and pressures of the globalized economy, education systems are at a crossroads and need to find a place and/or identity that reflect new or transformed realities for learning environments. Questions such as to what extent, in what way, and how are we doing will need to be raise...
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Social information research
Gunilla Widen, Kim Holmberg, Amanda Spink,Social Information Research, co-edited by Gunilla Widen and Kim Holmberg communicates current research looking into different aspects of social information as part of information behaviour research. There is a special emphasis on the new innovations supporting contemporary information behavior an...
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The observation protocol for academic literacies
Magaly Lavadenz, Elvira G. Armas,This book presents a validated observation instrument to support and develop the pedagogic expertise of teachers of English Learners in US schools. With real examples of classroom observations, it offers teachers, researchers and policymakers a tool for professional development, classroom researc...
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After excessive teacher and faculty entitlement
Tara Ratnam, Cheryl J. Craig,This second collection of perspectives on excessive teacher/faculty entitlement draws together authors from nine countries to address afresh the ‘conundrums’ affecting teaching and teacher education through the new lens afforded by the notion of excessive entitlement.
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Transcultural pedagogies for multilingual classrooms
Rahat Zaidi, Umit Boz, Eve Moreau,This book explores the ways in which transcultural pedagogies can support learning and literacies in critical, creative and socially just ways, highlighting research initiatives from across the globe. Chapters present innovative perspectives for language/literacy education focusing on Indigenous,...
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