Language: reference and general

This book provides an extensive and original analysis of the way that written and spoken communication facilitates creative practice in the university art and design studio.

To write history successfully, it is essential to understand the nuts and bolts of technique as well as the underlying principles which govern the whole process.

Language teachers are often afraid to teach pronunciation because they lack essential, basic knowledge or training in phonetics and phonology.

This book considers the largely under-recognised contribution that young writers have made to life writing genres such as memoir, letter writing and diaries, as well as their innovative use of independent and social media.

This book analyzes the role of manga in contemporary Japanese political expression and debate, and explores its role in propagating new perceptions regarding Japanese history.

In Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (1979), Syd Field first popularized the Three-Act Paradigm of Setup, Confrontation and Resolution for conceptualizing and creating the Hollywood screenplay.

English medium-of-instruction (EMI) is transforming modern-day universities across the globe, creating increasingly complex linguistic and intercultural realities which lecturers, students and decision-makers must negotiate.

This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries.

Through an investigation on how Palestinian youth appropriate low-end information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital media forms, Sanjay Asthana and Nishan Havandjian analyze how certain developments in globalization and media convergence enable young people to create new civic spaces.

Recently discovered ancient silk and bamboo manuscripts have transformed our understanding of classical Chinese thought.

The concept of 'Multiliteracies' has gained increasing influence since it was coined by the New London Group in 1994.

What is the child for Latin American cinema?

This book presents a radical turn in Second Language Acquisition research by introducing a conceptual paradigm that challenges rationalist, instrumental and empiricist approaches to language learning theory.

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture.

This book argues that Britain is gripped by an endemic and ongoing panic about the position of children in society - which frames them as, alternately, victims and threats.

This concise and user-friendly guide explains why referencing is an essential part of good writing and shows students how to reference correctly.

This book offers a holistic practitioner and research-based perspective on English Language Teaching and teacher education in difficult circumstances.

Second Language Writing in Elementary Classrooms focuses on L2 writing in elementary classrooms.

Social spaces for language learning, places where learners can come together in order to learn with and from each other, have an important role to play in foreign language acquisition and L2 identity development.

This book analyses processes of mode-switching in second language acquisition as they relate to Korean learners of English.

Drawing on years of experience of writing, teaching and publishing, this book offers essential tools for writers interested in honing their craft.

This book analyzes the Artists' House, a cultural center in Tehran, to place Iran's social and cultural transformation in a local-global context.

This book analyses the classroom blending of face-to-face and online technologies in the teaching and learning of second languages.

This book sheds new light on classroom indiscipline by listening to the voices of both the teachers and the young learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

In this dynamic exploration of the discipline of creative writing, Graeme Harper departs from the established 'how-to' model in a personal manifesto which analyses why human beings are, and have long been, passionate about writing.

This book systematically examines the linguistic features and socio-cultural issues of 'Hong Kong English'.

This book explores the linguistic ecology of the Kumaun region of Uttarakhand, India through the experiences and discourses of minority youth and their educators.

The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents.

This engagingly written textbook provides a unique 'hands-on' introduction to sociolinguistics, which equips readers with the tools to start their own sociolinguistic research project.

This research-led textbook investigates the use of new technologies for language learning, linking theory to practice.

Short story publishing is flourishing in the twenty-first century and is no longer seen as a poor relation of the novel.

This book presents an empirically-grounded sociolinguistic history of the English language in Hong Kong in the past 170 years.

This book explores the use of English within otherwise local-language conversations by two continental European social media communities.

This book explores the topic of teacher cognition, making use of sociocultural theory as a framework to understand what teachers know, think, believe and do in their professional contexts through 'applied' conversation analysis.

This book updates the latest research in the field of 'English pronunciation', providing readers with a number of original contributions that represent trends in the field.

This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe.

This core textbook helps readers get to grips with the fundamentals of English grammar so that they can critically engage with a wide variety of texts.

Advocating an argument-based approach, Blended Language Program Evaluation presents a framework for planning, conducting, and appraising evaluation of blended language learning across three institutional levels, and demonstrates its utility and application in four case studies carried out in diverse international contexts.

This book challenges the idea that Western media systems are becoming more American in the digital age, arguing that journalistic cultures are not only significantly different from each other still but also variably open and resistant to change.

An ecumenical and interfaith gathering, 'Where We Dwell in Common Pathways for Dialogue in the 21st Century' took place in Assisi in April 2012.

 This book brings the Cappadocian Fathers to life and explores their contributions to subsequent Christian thought.

Orature and Yoruba Riddles takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of riddles in Africa.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

This volume in the ALLC series offers current and soon-to-be professionals in the ESL / EFL field a comprehensive guide to how to make the best use of technology to enhance the English language learning experience.

This is an invaluable guide to developing the writing skills needed to succeed at every stage of postgraduate research.

Back for its fourth edition, this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building blocks of the English language, namely its words, sounds and sentences.

This book demonstrates how foreign language textbook analysis can inform future materials development to improve foreign language teaching.

This book offers a rationale for and ways of reading popular culture for peace.

This book analyses parental anxieties about their children's healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety.

This edited book focuses on the role of different types of pedagogical solutions in the acquisition of the Japanese grammatical system by reviewing, assessing and measuring current theory and research.