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Nirbhaya, new media and digital gender activism
Using the 2012 Delhi Nirbhaya rape case as a case study and keeping gender discourses at its core, this book explores the use of digital media for gender activism in India demonstrating how it has formed an alternate platform for dissent.
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Cross-linguistic transfer of writing strategies
In the context of increasingly multilingual global educational settings, this book provides a timely exploration of the phenomenon of cross-linguistic transfer of writing strategies (in particular, transfer from the foreign language to the first language) and presents a compelling case for a mult...
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Authenticity across languages and cultures
This volume centres around concepts of personal and cultural authenticity in foreign language teaching and learning. The chapters cover a wide range of contexts and disciplines, offering diverse perspectives regarding the role language plays in processes of personal growth, learning, development,...
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Re-envisioning the mls
At the heart of any discussion about the future of libraries is the future of librarians—and how well our instructional programs, especially the Master of Library Science (MLS) degree, prepare them for their careers. This book continues the critical conversations around preparing future librarians.
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Shades of decolonial voices in linguistics
This book argues that Linguistics has been shaped by colonization. It outlines how linguistic practices may be decolonized and the challenges which this poses to linguists. It concludes that decolonization in Linguistics is a process with no definite end point and cannot be completely successful ...
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An intercultural approach to english language teaching
This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of a practical introduction to intercultural education for teachers of English as a second language. This new edition addresses developments in the field since the publication of the 1st edition, including the impact of online resources f...
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The politics of researching multilingually
This book offers a unique understanding of how researchers’ linguistic resources, and the languages they use, are politically and structurally constrained, with implications for the reliability of the research. The book will help readers to make theoretically and methodologically informed choices...
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The organization of knowledge
Through different theoretical and analyses glasses, this book critically examines the organization of knowledge as it is involved in matters of digital communication, the social, cultural, and political consequences of classifying, and how particular historical contexts shape ideas of informatio...
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An introduction to english runes
Introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England.Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a p...
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The creative writer's mind
The Creative Writer’s Mind is a book for creative writers: it sets out to cross the gap between creative writing and science, between the creative arts and cognitive research. It examines what cognitive psychology, neuroscience and literary studies can tell creative writers about the processes of...
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Transforming world language teaching and teacher education for equity and justice
This edited book expands the current scholarship on teaching world languages for social justice and equity in K-12 and postsecondary contexts in the US. The chapters address how world language teachers approach social justice in their teaching, and how teacher educators prepare teachers to teach ...
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Linguistic practice in changing conditions
This book draws on 10 years of collaborative sociolinguistic work on the changing conditions of language use. It begins with guiding principles, shifts to empirically driven arguments in urban sociolinguistics, and concludes with studies of (in)securitised communication addressed to challenges ah...
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Psycholinguistic approaches to instructed second language acquisition
This book applies a psycholinguistic perspective to instructed second language acquisition, bridging the gap between research and teaching practices. It re-envisions the explicit and implicit learning divide as a continuum of consciousness, explores the pedagogical applications of SLA findings an...
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The u.s. military in the print news media
This book analyses the history of the popular discourse in the United States concerned with the U.S. military and its engagement in foreign wars from the Spanish-American War through to the U.S. invasions of Iraqand the War on Terror.
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Translanguaging, coloniality and decolonial cracks
In this ethnography of bilingual science learning, the author connects microanalyses of classroom discourse to broader themes of de/coloniality in education. The author examines the linguistic landscape of the school and the attitudes of staff and students which produce both coloniality and crack...
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Rural and small public libraries
This volume begins by defining the challenges that rural and small libraries face before shifting to an analysis of ways that these obstacles can be overcome or mitigated. The authors explore ideas for enhancing community partnerships and outreach by using rural and small public libraries as cent...
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Super-sticky wechat and chinese society
This book provides a balanced and nuanced study of how the super-sticky WeChat platform interweaves into the fabric of Chinese social, cultural, and political life. It keeps the wider global and national social media landscape in view and compares and contrasts WeChat with Weibo, QQ and other Wes...
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Digital activism and cyberconflicts in nigeria
This book offers fresh insights on digital activism and cyberconflicts through a comparison of sociopolitical and ethnoreligious movements in Nigeria. Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) highlight the digital and organizational aspects of con...
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Promoting reflection on language learning
This book presents the collaborative efforts of a team of academics at a university in Japan to promote learner reflection. It includes studies, practical applications and reflective accounts, and demonstrates how reflection can be effectively integrated into language learning activities with sig...
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Project management in the library workplace
This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization attempts to put project management into the toolboxes of library administrators through overviews of concepts, analyses of experiences, and forecasts for the use of project management within the profession.
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Lessons from exceptional language learners who have achieved nativelike proficiency
This book opens a narrative window into the experiences of learners who achieve nativelike proficiency and offers insights into their pathways to success. Tying together themes of motivation, cognition and identity, the authors explore how these learners became so successful and whether their suc...
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Policy and practice for multilingual educational settings
Exploring multilingualism as a complex, context-related, societal and individual phenomenon, this book centres around perspectives on how multiple languages are made (in)visible within educational settings. The chapters compare findings across geographical contexts in the areas of language policy...
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Becoming digital
This book examines the convergence of Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the Internet of Things to forge the Next Internet. Ubiquitous computing enables universal communication, concentration of power, privacy erosion, environmental degradation, and massive automation and this title explores solving ...
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English pronunciation teaching
This book presents and discusses theoretical and practical perspectives on English pronunciation theory, research and practice in order to establish evidence-based pronunciation teaching models, teaching and research priorities, and recommendations for best practices in teaching English pronuncia...
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Quality and equity in education
This book presents a vision of plurilingual, intercultural education, demonstrates how it can be realised in practice, and does so in a way which is easily and quickly accessible to teachers of all subjects and in all educational institutions, as well as to other educationists, including policyma...
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A history of bilingual education in the us
This book traces a history of bilingual education in the US, unveiling the role of politics in policy development and implementation. It introduces readers to past systemic supports for creation of diverse bilingual educational programs and situates particular instances and phases of expansion an...
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Translanguaging and english as a lingua franca in the plurilingual classroom
This book explores the use of multilingual practices such as translanguaging, code-switching and stylization by speakers of less commonly taught languages. It investigates how students use these languages alongside English as a lingua franca to participate in classroom tasks and social interactio...
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Critical ethnography, language, race/ism and education
This book provides a contemporary overview of work in critical ethnography that focuses on language and race/ism in education, as well as cutting edge examples of recent critical ethnographic studies addressing these issues. The chapters draw on a range of critical theoretical perspectives and ad...
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(re)imagining translanguaging pedagogies through teacher–researcher collaboration
By promoting and highlighting teacher–researcher partnerships as one avenue for improvement and transparency, the chapters in this book demonstrate the potential of translanguaging pedagogies in classrooms and further resist the linguistic hierarchies that exist in educational institutions today.
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Conditions of access
Using an innovative methodological approach, Conditions of Accessexamines how novels circulate globally through the trade in publishing rights, introduces a model by which to trade these rights and assess threats, and using Australia as a case study, provides a new account of how one nation’s lit...
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Teacher reflection
This book examines teacher reflection in three main areas: policies, practices and the impact of teacher reflection on teachers’ practices and professional development. The chapters shed light on concerns and challenges experienced by teachers in diverse international contexts and institutions.
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Early language learning in context
This book critically analyzes early school foreign language teaching policy and practice across six geographical contexts. Criticizing the worldwide trend for a focus on English, it argues for a broader perspective that values multilingualism and knowledge of regional and indigenous languages alo...
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The professional lives of language study abroad alumni
This book investigates the impact of language learning and study abroad on the career options and choices of US-based alumni of all ages. International education experiences are shown to exert considerable influence on the aspirations and career paths of individuals, and the long-term benefits ar...
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Digital materialism
Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. This short book sets out a methodical materialist understanding of digital technologies, where they come from, how they work, and what they do.
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Social media in earthquake-related communication
This book presents a comprehensive framework for disaster communication, with a main focus on earthquake-related communication, building on a previously fragmented, single-case study approach to analysing the role of social media during natural disasters.
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Second language literacy pedagogy
This book provides a detailed design of a new second language literacy pedagogy and the results of implementing it in different contexts so as to address literacy development challenges. The author explains the theory behind Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory of Mind and Systemic Functional Linguist...
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The power of voice in transforming multilingual societies
Drawing upon the framework of linguistic citizenship, the chapters in this book link questions of language to sociopolitical discourses of justice, rights and equity, as well as to issues of power and access. They present powerful evidence of how marginalized speakers reclaim their voices and cha...
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Reflecting on the common european framework of reference for languages and its companion volume
This book discusses the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its Companion Volume on curricula, teaching/learning and assessment in a wide range of educational contexts, identifies challenges posed by the Companion Volume and sheds light on areas that require fur...
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Translanguaging in translation
This book brings applied linguistics and translation studies together through an analysis of literary texts in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean and their translations. It brings a new dimension to the burgeoning field of translanguaging studies and highlights the role of translation in the dev...
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Person to person peacebuilding, intercultural communication and english language teaching
This book maps person to person peacebuilding as it intersects with, and is embedded in, intercultural communication. It foregrounds the voices and discourses of participants in an intercultural online service-learning project focused on peace through education in Afghanistan, primarily through s...
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Identity and language learning
This second edition of Norton’s classic text on language learning and identity will bring her ground-breaking ideas to a new generation of students, teachers and researchers. Featuring a comprehensive Introduction and an Afterword by Claire Kramsch, this new edition integrates research, theory an...
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Creating welcoming learning environments
This book provides practical ideas for how children, young people and parents can feel welcomed and affirmed in their multilingual identities and all learners can feel excited by the linguistic diversity of the world’s people. The book will be an invaluable resource for educational practitioners,...
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Transnational research in english language teaching
The edited volume contributes to the comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the global ELT landscape in instructional settings within and across countries. It brings together language teachers, educators and researchers who use their experiences of shuttling across borders to reflect on the...
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The people's tongue
A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and more from Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln to Henry Roth and Zora Neale Hurston, from George Ca...
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Kamba proverbs from eastern kenya
A unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, psychology, religion, sociology, and environmental studies, as well as performers and poets.Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical a...
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Crossing borders, writing texts, being evaluated
This book examines both writing norms and assessment, and proficiency development, and suggests that scholars need to critically examine testing regimes and develop research-based perspectives on tests and testing practices, so that educational institutions can prepare learners with differing cul...
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Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging
This book brings together a group of leading scholars to critically assess a recent proposal within translanguaging theory called deconstructivism: the view that discrete or ‘named’ languages do not exist. The authors converge on a multilingual perspective on translanguaging which affirms the aim...
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Profiles of dual language education in the 21st century
In the last 20 years dual language education programs have increased in number and expanded in range, spanning pre-K through high school. This book examines the key attributes of successful dual language programs, as well as the challenges and opportunities involved in extending the dual language...
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Theoretical and applied perspectives on teaching foreign languages in multilingual settings
This book aims to advance multilingual research in foreign language education. It contributes to a discussion of how to foster the acquisition of subsequent foreign languages by engaging learners’ existing linguistic resources in an optimal way, and how to strengthen the connection between resear...
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