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Reflecting on the common european framework of reference for languages and its companion volume
David Little, Neus Figueras,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
Eriko Sato,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
Amy Jo Minett, Sarah E. Dietrich, Didem Ekici,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
Bonny Norton,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
Jane Andrews, Maryam Almohammad,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
Rashi Jain, Bedrettin Yazan, Suresh Canagarajah,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
Ilan Stavans,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
Jeremiah M Kitunda,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
Anne Golden, Lars Anders Kulbrandstad, Lawrence Jun Zhang,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
Jeff MacSwan,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
M. Beatriz Arias, Molly Fee,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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Linguistic justice on campus
Brooke R. Schreiber, Eunjeong Lee, Jennifer T. Johnson, Norah Fahim,This book supports writing educators on college campuses to work towards linguistic equity and social justice for multilingual students. It demonstrates how recent advances in theories on language, literacy, and race can be translated into pedagogical and administrative practice in a variety of c...
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Sociocultural theory in second language education
Merrill Swain, Penny Kinnear, Linda Steinman,This textbook introduces the reader to concepts of sociocultural theory, through a series of narratives illuminating key concepts of the theory. This 2nd edition references recent studies that provide important instances of Vygotskian sociocultural theory in second language education and research...
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Translating myself and others
Jhumpa Lahiri,Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as we...
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Sociolinguistics and language education
Nancy H. Hornberger, Sandra Lee McKay,This book provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, including topics of nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, multimodal literacies, classroom discourse, ideologies and power, across various language education contexts.
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Bilingualism for all?
Nelson Flores, Amelia Tseng, Nicholas Subtirelu,This book adopts a raciolinguistic perspective to examine the ways in which dual language education programs in the US often reinforce the racial inequities that they purport to challenge. The chapters adopt a range of methodologies, disciplines and language foci to challenge mainstream and schol...
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Sociolinguistics and the legal process
Diana Eades,Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process is an introduction to language, law and society for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. Drawing on a wide range of topics, it explores what sociolinguistic research can tell us about how language works and doesn’t work in the legal process.
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Twelve lectures on multilingualism
David Singleton, Larissa Aronin,This major new textbook offers an accessible introduction to the most interesting areas in the study of multilingualism. It consists of twelve lectures, written by leading researchers, each dedicated to a particular topic of importance and accompanied by questions for student reflection and sugge...
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Teaching children online
Carla Meskill, Natasha Anthony,What does best practice in online education look like? How can educators make use of the affordances offered by online environments to bring out the best in the children they teach? These questions are answered in this new textbook, written with experienced teachers, novice educators and teacher ...
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Language teachers studying abroad
Gary Barkhuizen,This book focuses on the study abroad experiences of pre-service and in-service language teachers and language teacher educators, discussing their psychological experiences in cognitive, affective and social terms.
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Remaking multilingualism
Bahar Otcu-Grillman, Maryam Borjian,This book is both a collection of cutting-edge research in the areas of multilingualism, translanguaging and bilingual education, and a tribute to the research and influence of Ofelia García. It recognizes Ofelia García’s contribution as both a scholar and friend, and her place at the centre of a...
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Bushwhacking
Jennifer McGaha,Part writing memoir, part nature memoir, and part meditation on a life well lived
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Explorations of language transfer
Terence Odlin,This book brings together many insights about the influences of one language upon another in language learning. Its accessible discussions explore key concerns such as predictions of difficulty, the role of translation processes, the relation between comprehension and production, and implications...
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Liberating language education
Vally Lytra, Cristina Ros i Solé, Jim Anderson, Vicky Macleroy,This book engages with new ways of understanding language that include other resources and practices and bring to the fore its messiness, unpredictability and interconnectedness. The chapters illustrate how a translingual and transcultural orientation to language can provide a point of entry to r...
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(don't) stop me if you've heard this before
Peter Turchi,Peter Turchi’s third book on the craft of fiction goes beyond the basics to explore the intricate mechanics of storytelling.
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Transformative translanguaging espacios
Maite T. Sánchez, Ofelia García,This book shows the transformative power of placing translanguaging at the center of teaching and learning. It shows how the centering of racialized Latinx bilingual students, including their knowledge systems and cultural and linguistic practices, transforms the monolingual-white supremacy ideol...
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Hablar español en estados unidos
Jennifer Leeman, Janet M. Fuller,Este libro ofrece un acercamiento a la sociolingüística, centrándose en el español hablado en los Estados Unidos. Se examina la historia del español en dicho país, la relación de la lengua con las identidades latinxs, y las formas en que las ideologías y las políticas lingüísticas reflejan y cond...
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The legal recognition of sign languages
Maartje De Meulder, Joseph J. Murray, Rachel L. McKee,This book presents the first comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, their impacts and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. Each chapter is grounded in a collaborative writing approach between deaf and hearing scholars and activists involved in legislati...
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Book proposals that sell
W. Terry Whalin,In Book Proposals That Sell, Terry reveals 21 secrets to creating a book proposal that every author needs in order to create one that sells.
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International tesol teachers in a multi-englishes community
Phan Le Ha, Othman Z. Barnawi,This book embarks on an ever-expanding array of language, academic mobility, neoliberalism, and accompanying rich scholarly debates, with a focus on the day-to-day work experiences of international English language teachers in Saudi Arabia’s higher education.
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Vocabulary theory, patterning and teaching
Paweł Szudarski, Samuel Barclay,This book presents the current state of knowledge in the vibrant and diverse field of vocabulary studies, summarising the latest empirical studies and providing a firm indication of the future of the field. The chapters cover the key themes of theorizing and measuring vocabulary knowledge, formul...
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Classroom 15
Peter Laufer, Ann Curry,A result of an investigative report by tenacious University of Oregon journalism students, Classroom 15 tells the story of how the dreams of fourth-grade students at the Riverside School, Roseburg, in rural Oregon timber country, were crushed by the prevailing Red Scare, McCarthyism, state and so...
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Language, power and pedagogy
Jim Cummins,This volume reviews the research and theory relating to instruction and assessment of bilingual pupils, focusing not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-pupil interaction in the classroom.
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Speaking spanish in the us
Janet M. Fuller, Jennifer Leeman,This book introduces readers to basic concepts of sociolinguistics with a focus on Spanish in the US. The coverage goes beyond linguistics to examine the history and politics of Spanish in the US, the relationship of language to Latinx identities, and how language ideologies and policies reflect ...
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Bilingual first language acquisition
Annick De Houwer,This textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak two languages from birth. It brings together both established knowledge and the latest findings about different areas of bilingual language development in a perspective that emphasizes the role of children's language learning envir...
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Along came google
Deanna Marcum, Roger C. Schonfeld,An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital libraryLibraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it planned to digitize books to make the world's k...
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The artist's library
Erinn Batykefer, Laura Damon-Moore, Pigza Jessica,A guide to libraries as creative spaces including exercises, best practices, and examples for artists, librarians, and community members.Creativity, like information, is free to everyone who steps into a library. An offshoot of the Library as Incubator Project, The Artist’s Library offers that an...
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Talking back, talking black
John McWhorter,An authoritative, impassioned celebration of Black English, how it works, and why it matters—now in paperback!
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One day in the life of the english language
Frank L. Cioffi,A one-of-a-kind handbook that uses a day in the life of written English to illustrate the benefits of effective grammarGenerations of student writers have been subjected to usage handbooks that proclaim, "This is the correct form. Learn it"—books that lay out a grammar, but don't inspire students...
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Clear and simple as the truth
Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner,Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart.At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only pe...
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Making feminist media
Elizabeth Groeneveld,Making Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism’s third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications that began as zines in the 1990s and by tracking their successes and failures, provides insight into the polit...
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