Language: reference and general

This book reveals how to provide the leaders of tomorrow with the right education for a management career Made in Germany.

Written with an emphasis on instruction, policy, practice, and assessment, this book focuses on English literacy at the pre-primary/primary, secondary, and university level, and discusses literacy policies in the region.

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

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.

This book presents a collection of original research articles that showcase the state of the art of research in corpus and computational linguistic approaches to Chinese language teaching, learning and assessment.

This text considers contemporary China's language ideology and how it supports China as a rising global power player.

This book discusses and demonstrates the types of English discourse used at academic conferences and offers guidance to prospective conference participants from multiple perspectives.

This book contrasts variations in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation, using as a reference for discussion the mainstream careful speech of news anchors at the national level or the equivalent type of speech: a well-educated style that nonetheless sounds natural.

This book presents new perspectives on the study of Aspect and Modality in Chinese Historical Linguistics.

This book investigates the diachronic change of the tone sandhi of Southern Min Chinese, which is known for its synchronic arbitrariness and opacity.

This book deals with synchronic variation in Chinese through a diachronic lens, based on the evidence from a quantitative, longitudinal corpus study.

This publication entitled Encyclopaedia of News Coverage.

This book offers a bird's-eye view of the current trends, opportunities, and challenges related to Asian youth travellers, and it also presents a holistic framework for future research to build upon.

This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as emigre literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of 'mother-tongue"e; as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of native language/foreign language.

This book presents the experiences of Chinese Language researchers in Singapore to Chinese Language researchers and teachers in other countries and regions, such as the USA, the UK and Asia, that are home to a large number of learners, young and old.

Promoting cultural understanding in a globalized world, this text is a key tool for students interested in further developing their understanding of Chinese society and culture.

Promoting cultural understanding in a globalized world, this text is a key tool for students interested in understanding the fundamentals of Chinese culture.

This book presents key issues in the teaching of Chinese as a second or foreign language (TCSL or TCFL).

Analyses the current state of minority language policy in Western Europe and provides comprehensive, evidence-based policy recommendations.

This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of "e;self-identity"e; and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic fervor in colonial India.

This book concerns two focus particles (jiu, dou) and wh-expressions (shenme = 'what', na geren = 'which person') in Mandarin Chinese.

This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one.

This book conducts a thorough investigation of the variation in tone sandhi patterns of Shanghai and Wuxi Wu using quantitative rating experiments.

This cutting edge collection considers how the Japanese language functions as a key element of Japanese soft power in Asia.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the socio-cultural and political context of modern China in terms of its interaction with America and the West, focusing on the influence of the well-known Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Yutang (1895-1976).

This book presents an investigation of language contact, focusing on Northwestern China.

This book brings together 13 original research papers that address emerging issues in the assessment of Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) in five major areas, including standards in CSL assessment; development of CSL tests; assessment of diverse knowledge and skills; computer-supported assessment; and CSL assessment in relation to instruction and teachers' assessment competence.

This text is a timely and wide-ranging study providing essential background to the development of global modernity through the European encounter with China.

This book challenges readers to recognise the conditions that underpin popular approaches to children and young people's participation, as well as the key processes and institutions that have enabled its rise as a global force of social change in new times.

This book is about resistance in everyday life, illustrated through empirical contexts from different parts of the world.

This book makes an original contribution to the fields of sociolinguistics, language planning policy and Chinese language studies.

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

This pivot analyzes the historical emergence of legal graffiti and how it has led to a new ethos among writers.

This book brings together the perspectives of eminent and emerging scholars on contemporary issues relevant to the practice, pedagogy and institutionalization of the humanities in the three Chinese contexts of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China.

The Kam language of China possesses fifteen tones - more than any other language.

This book provides readers with a detailed sketch of the Mandarin competence of Chinese children in Singapore from different home language backgrounds.

This book explores pedagogical concepts, metaphors and images of non-white, non-western researchers and research students on the inter/nationalization of education.

This contributed volume discusses in detail the process of construction of a WordNet of 18 Indian languages, called "e;Indradhanush"e; (rainbow) in Hindi.

This book summarizes the results a three-year longitudinal project on Mandarin development among children of Indonesian mothers, the second largest non-Mandarin speaking immigrant group in Taiwan.

This book provides an overview of the linguistic situation in Brunei, including a historical overview and a synopsis of the current education system.

Lying at the intersection of translatology, cognitive science and linguistics, this brief provides a comprehensive framework for studying, investigating and teaching English-Russian/Russian-English non-literary translation.

This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major parts of speech in Mandarin.

Esta investigación realizada por la escritora Gilda Jiménez, parte de la experiencia personal, que adquirió y desarrolló en las enseñanzas de los cursos de oratoria, en diversos lugares, como planes vacacionales, didácticos.

Panorama de los centros y programas de escritura en Latinoamérica, editado por Violeta Molina Natera, es un libro particularmente importante que merece una amplia audiencia.

Esta obra ha sido planteada didacticamente por competencias.

Esta obra se dirige a profesores de español y de otras áreas, a estudiantes de todos los niveles educativos, profesionales, escritores y personas preocupadas por el conocimiento de nuestra lengua para que disipen dudas de forma ágil, conozcan cambios registrados por las academias de la lengua y los apliquen cuando escriban.

Esta obra se dirige a profesores de español y de otras áreas, a estudiantes de todos los niveles educativos, profesionales, escritores y personas preocupadas por el conocimiento de nuestra lengua para que disipen dudas de forma ágil, conozcan cambios registrados por las academias de la lengua y los apliquen cuando escriban.

Esta serie, dirigida a estudiantes de secundaria, pregrado y posgrado, así como a profesores e investigadores en distintas áreas del conocimiento, contiene información específica acerca del uso de la correcta puntuación en español y de las normas APA, IEEE, Vancouver, Icontec, MLA y Chicago.

Hablar en publico de forma apropiada es una habilidad con la que no todo el mundo cuenta.

El trabajo de grado, o la tesina, es uno de los momentos más importantes para aquellos estudiantes que están terminando su ciclo de formación en pregrado, especialización o maestría.