Language: reference and general

This book investigates the preparation of secondary history and social studies (SS) teachers to teach English language learners (ELLs) in twenty-first century classrooms.

This book examines three metafunction meanings in subtitle translation with three research foci, i.

This book offers a precise and rigorous analysis of the meanings of offensive words in Chinese.

This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India.

This book presents the innovative pedagogy of Writing Fantasy: a method for exploring and shifting one's identity as a writer.

Mit diesem Buch lernen Sie, wie Sie Social Listening und Sentiment-Analyse professionell einsetzen können.

This collection highlights the diverse ways comics and graphic novels are used in English and literature classrooms, whether to develop critical thinking or writing skills, paired with a more traditional text, or as literature in their own right.

This book offers a range of perspectives and insights from around the world on the teaching and learning of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Youth Mediations and Affective Relations explores dynamic and expansive possibilities of young people's affective lives as they engage with diverse social media in prolific and specific ways.

This edited book focuses on speech etiquette, examining the rules that govern communication in various online communities: professional, female, and ethnospecific.

Here is a timely response to the research findings of the last decade.

Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative engages with the cultural meanings and movements of blindness.

This book investigates a paradox of creative yet scripted play-how LEGO invites players to build 'freely' with and within its highly structured, ideologically-laden toy system.

Understanding Teenage Girls: Culture, Identity and Schooling focuses on a range of social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color.

An essential guide for pre-service and in-service English language teachers.

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the city image in the Hebrew Bible, with specific attention to stylistics.

This book addresses, for the first time, the question of how development NGOs attempt to 'listen' to communities in linguistically diverse environments.

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This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced.

What is it that makes humans engage with a dramatic narrative?

Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many more in Europe, the Americas, and Australia.

This book is about the challenges that come with initiatives to develop a more humanized, intersectional and negotiable landscape for English Language Teaching (ELT).

This book unpacks recent changes in the landscape of literature and language teaching, and aims to find new explanations for the altered relationships between readers and writers, the democratisation of authorship, and the emergence of new ways of using language.

This book explores the experiences of Indigenous children and young adults around the world as they navigate the formal education system and wider society.

This book evaluates the origins of processes of change in language teaching in China, and the factors influencing their success.

This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.

This is the next generation of business dictionaries.

Up-to-date business terms including banking, the internet, computers, accounting, insurance, real estate, taxes, and more, designed to facilitate communication and cross linguistic barriers.

This is the next generation of business dictionaries.

This handbook is the largest and most comprehensive publication on Berber linguistics to date, covering the variety of Berber dialects and related linguistics trends.

This is the next generation of business dictionaries.

This is the next generation of Business Dictionaries.

Up-to-date business terms including banking, the internet, computers, accounting, insurance, real estate, taxes, and more, designed to facilitate communication and cross linguistic barriers.

With over 26,000 chemical and pharmaceutical terms, this modern, easy-to-use English and Spanish glossary is an indispensable resource for pharmacists, physicians, scientists, health care professionals, and anyone else who works in these or related fields.

Doing business in Spanish requires a dictionary that is up-to-date with the 21st century.

This edited collection brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who together offer cutting-edge insights into the complex roles, functions, and effects of pronouns in literary texts.

Through its use of conversational and supportive tones, this popular guide puts readers at ease, assisting the transition to academic study.

This book critically examines Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the state by assessing its theoretical and empirical value.

This book calls for a change in the way interculturality is introduced in Chinese language education, while the demand for Chinese language teaching increases around the world.

This book will help students improve their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

Shows students how to make their writing effective and grammatically correct.

This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s.

This book teaches parents how to conduct play therapy with their own young children.

Just as in his previous volume, The Secrets of Hebrew Words, Rabbi Blech brings readers into the fascinating world of gematria (the reckoning of numbers) and acronyms to uncover the vast profundity hidden in everyday Hebrew language.

Sibling relationships and rivalry are as old as recorded history.

The quotations contained in this monumental volume consist of aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, and comments of Jewish authorship or on Jewish themes.

Distinctive, original, fresh in in tone and manner, with a quaint whimsicality of feeling and expression.

This book offers case studies and a comparative analysis of three authors writing in different European minority languages, exploring how they link national and context-marked political community with universal human requirements.

This book covers the development of the presidential office within the context of constitutional interpretations of presidential power and socio-political and economic developments, as well as foreign affairs events, from 1789-2015.

Children and Crime offers a multidisciplinary and research-based approach to the study of child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency.