Bilingualism and multilingualism

The volume espouses an ecosystemic standpoint on multilingual acquisition and learning, viewing language development and use as both ontogenesis and phylogenesis.

The book deals with content acquisition in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) based chemistry course and represents high level scientific work.

Wie lässt sich die Sprachförderkompetenz pädagogischer Fachkräfte aus linguistischer Perspektive modellieren und empirisch erfassen?

This book explores the lives of five Mexican immigrant-origin youths in the United States, documenting their language and literacy journeys over an eight-year period from adolescence to young adulthood.

This book examines transnational identities, integration and linguistic practices on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands.

This book examines transnational identities, integration and linguistic practices on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands.

This edited collection brings to the forefront attempts to connect critical pedagogy and ELT (English Language Teaching) in different parts of the world.

This book addresses translingual identities through an innovative multimodal analysis of the language learning histories of a class of advanced learners of English in Japan who grew up between two or more languages.

This book draws on the perspectives of authors, supervisors, reviewers and editors to present a rich, nuanced picture of the practices and challenges involved in writing for scholarly publication.

This book explores specific issues related to academic writing provision in the post-communist countries in Eastern, Central and Southern Europe.

This volume offers empirically grounded perspectives on translanguaging as a locally situated, interactional accomplishment of practical action, and its significance within different domains of social life-school, education, diasporic families and communities, workplaces, urban linguistic landscapes, advertising practices and mental health centres - focusing on case studies from different countries and continents.

This volume gathers recent research findings in the field of foreign language (FL) teaching in Romanian higher education dwelling on both methodology and students' learning outcomes.

This book presents an innovative institutional transpositional ethnography that examines the textual trajectory of "e;the life of a calling script"e; from production by corporate management and clients to recontextualization by middle management and finally to application by agents in phone interactions.

This thought-provoking monograph makes a multidisciplinary case for bilingualism as a possible enhancer of executive function, particularly cognitive control.

This book covers research topics in bilingual education, language policies, language contact, identity of bilingual speakers, early bilingualism, heritage languages, and more, and provides an overview of current theory, research and practice in the field of bilingualism.

This book draws on original research and a language based pedagogy approach to examine how secondary schools in the UK can devise and implement coherent language and literacy across curriculum policies and strategies, so that grammar and associated metalanguage becomes an integral part of their day to day curriculum practices.

This book examines the role played by the international circulation of literature in constructing cultural memories of the Second World War.

This volume provides a unique interface between the material and linguistic aspects of communication, education and language use, and cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, drawing on fields as varied as applied linguistics, ethnology, sociology, history and philosophy.

This book presents an in-depth fieldwork-based study of the Greek language spoken by immigrants in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia.

This volume examines how internationalization, stakeholders, and educational contexts have a reciprocal influence on multilinguals and their communities both as individual and collective variables.

This volume provides an up-to-date collection of key aspects related to current preschool bilingual education research from a socio-linguistic perspective.

This edited volume explores studying second languages abroad by critically and constructively reviewing established programming, providing theoretical and research-informed support for pedagogical and curriculum interventions, and analysing participant experiences.

In the sociopolitics of language, sometimes yesterday's solution is tomorrow's problem.

This book offers a systematic analysis of a wide range of questions used in censuses, national surveys and international surveys to measure language proficiency.

This book's innovative approach proposes Language for Teaching Purposes as a distinct field of enquiry and practice within Language for Specific Purposes.

This volume presents in-depth studies on leading themes in education policy and intercultural communication in contemporary Asia, covering empirical as well as theoretical approaches, and offering both an in-depth investigation of their implications, and a synthesis of areas where these topics cohere and point to advances in description, analysis and theory, policy and applications.

This book focuses on case studies of vocabulary strategy use and presents an in-depth account of the vocabulary learning experiences of Chinese students in the UK.

This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development.

This book presents case studies of five schools engaged in radical change in order to engage with children's home languages and cultures in a more multilingual and inclusive way.

This book empirically explores how different linguistic resources are utilized to achieve appropriate workplace role inhabitance and to achieve work-oriented communicative ends in a variety of workplaces in Japan.

This book critically refines and adds depth to current understandings and practices in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) and EMI (English-Medium Instruction), using empirical research examining the experiences of English language learning and use of undergraduate and postgraduate international students in the UK.

This book is the first volume to be devoted to the examination of the application of the multiliteracies pedagogical framework to the teaching of Spanish to heritage language learners in higher education institutions in the United States.

This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues.

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of consecutive interpreting.

This book provides a unique insight into negotiations around language investment for employability in the context of public employment services.

This book analyses oral proficiency interviews, a mainstay of second language speaking proficiency assessment for several decades.

This book presents a corpus-based study of spoken learner language produced by university-level ESL students in the classroom.

This book contextualizes the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), with a particular focus on the professional and academic identity and role of the EAP practitioner.

This book analyses the learning experiences of students of Business English at a Chinese university.

This volume examines the specific effects that schools have on the performance of immigrant students and linguistic minority groups.

This book analyzes the impact of historical, political and sociocultural contexts on the reading, rewriting and translating of texts.

This edited collection explores how science can be taught to English language learners (ELLs) in 21st century classrooms.