Language teaching and learning

Indonesian Idioms and Expressions is a collection of Indonesian expressions, including proverbs, slang, quotations and acronyms, that offers a commentary on their origins, as well as insights into Indonesian culture, customs, and history.

This collection of reprinted essays starts from the author's doctoral research on Jacopo Peri and the rise of opera and solo song in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Florence.

Sprechen und sich verstandlich ausdrucken lernen ohne Hemmungen und dabei Spa in der Gruppe und im Alltag haben - das ist das Motto, und genau danach entstand das etablierte und gleichzeitig aktuelle Lehrwerk fur Junggebliebene aus dem bel Verlag "e;Autumn Years- Englisch fur Senioren"e;.

This third edition of Compendium of the World's Languages has been thoroughly revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide selection of natural language systems.

The present volume offers a selection of papers on current issues in Slavic languages.

This book fulfils a keenly-felt need for a modern, comprehensive dictionary of Scottish Gaelic into English.

This collection of critical essays investigates the intersections of the global and local in literature and language.

In foreign language education, decisions must be taken on what languages to teach, who will teach them, in which schools (i.

Colloquial Mongolian is easy to use and completely up to date!

This book develops the theory and practice of critical foreign language pedagogy.

A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is a comprehensive, cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin-America.

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This book challenges the reader to rethink and reimagine what diversity in language education means in transnational societies.

This book addresses issues surrounding writing centers in the Arabian Gulf region.

This book provides insights for both native language teachers and local language teachers alike who conduct team-taught lessons by revisiting the topic of foreign assistant language teachers (ALTs), the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program, and team teaching.

There is increasingly wide agreement among teachers, researchers, inspectors, advisers and policy-makers that both teaching and research will benefit from being brought closer together.

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.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The key to professional success in Brazil is understanding Brazilians.

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in applied linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course, as well as for advanced undergraduates.

Itadakimasu!

This volume examines strategies for embedding gender awareness within translation studies and translator training programmes.

The Arabic Classroom is a multicontributor work for trainee and in-service teachers of Arabic as a foreign language.

This book considers how a young child becomes a member of culture through the practices and procedures of everyday conversation.

Talk Japanese has already inspired thousands of people to learn Japanese from scratch and find the confidence to give it a go.

Intermediate Chinese is the ideal reference and practice book for students with some knowledge of the language.

This book focuses on the interface of organizational development and language learning, using mixed methods of qualitative (reflective journals) and quantitative analysis (experimental design, pre- and post-testing exam scores and questionnaires).

Danish: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of current Danish as it is used by native speakers.

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There is no wittier, more amiable or more astute word maven than Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist William Safire.

Designated a critical language by the US Department of Defense, Pashto is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan and is commonly spoken in parts of Pakistan.

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Against the backdrop of the critical importance of recognising the specificity of learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, this volume focuses on a state-of-the-art presentation of the research approaches and methods that characterise French as second language (L2) within contemporary SLA research.

Corpus-Based Approaches to ELT presents a compilation of research exploring different ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching.

German: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern German.

Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook is designed for learners who have achieved basic proficiency and now wish to progress to more complex language.

Cambodian-English Glossary contains over 8,800 words.

This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech.

Contemporary Japanese is a textbook series for beginning students of Japanese at the college or high school level.