Multilingual Matters imprint: 455 books
Learning Chinese as a Heritage Language
An Australian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This book explores the fascinating topic of heritage language learning, looking in particular at Chinese Australians’ learning of Chinese. The author studies the investment, challenges and benefits of heritage language learning across varied contexts including school, work, home and in the community....
by Naoko Taguchi
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Pragmatic competence plays a key role in the era of globalization where communication across cultural boundaries is an everyday phenomenon. The ability to use language in a socially appropriate manner is critical, as lack of it may lead to cross-cultural miscommunication or cultural stereotyping....
Power and Meaning Making in an EAP Classroom
Engaging with the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
This book examines how critical literacy pedagogy has been implemented in a classroom through a year-long collaboration between the author (a researcher) and an EAP teacher. It details the teacher's introduction to functional grammar and accompanying critical literacy approaches to EAP, and her growing...
European Vernacular Literacy
A Sociolinguistic and Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
In this major new text, Joshua Fishman charts the rise of vernacular literacy in Europe, and the major social, economic, religious, political, demographic, educational and philosophical changes that attended it. Following the story up until the present day, the book examines the people who became...
Reflective Practice as Professional Development
Experiences of Teachers of English in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book presents a researcher’s work on reflective practice with a group of high school teachers of English in Japan. Beginning with a series of uncomfortable teacher training sessions delivered to unwilling participants, the book charts the author’s development of new methods of engaging her...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This collection addresses issues of authenticity in second language contexts from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches along three principal themes: What is authentic language? Who is an authentic speaker? How is authenticity achieved? The volume responds to these questions by bringing...
Engaging Superdiversity
Recombining Spaces, Times and Language Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book is the fruition of five years’ work in exploring the idea of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of post-structuralist, post-colonial and neo-Marxist interdisciplinary research into the potential and the...
Language, Education and Neoliberalism
Critical Studies in Sociolinguistics
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This edited volume presents an empirical account of how neoliberal ideas are adopted on the ground by different actors in different educational settings, from bilingual education in the US, to migrant work programmes in Italy, to minority language teaching in Mexico. It examines language and education...
The Language of Adult Immigrants
Agency in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
This book is the first to explore the constitution of language learner agency by drawing on performativity theory, an approach that remains on the periphery of second language research. Though many scholars have drawn on poststructuralism to theorize learner identity in non-essentialist terms, most...
Language Learning, Power, Race and Identity
White Men, Black Language
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
This book investigates the strategies and identities of colonials who have learned the languages of colonised people, using the context of isiXhosa in South Africa. While power in language learning research has traditionally focused on the powerful native speaker and the relatively disempowered learner,...
Early Learning of Modern Foreign Languages
Processes and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Modern languages are offered to young learners at an increasingly early age in many countries; yet few publications have focused on what is available to children in different contexts. This volume fills this gap by documenting the state-of-the-art in researching young language learners using a variety...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This unique volume offers a comprehensive discussion of essential theoretical and methodological issues concerning the pivotal role of working memory in second language learning and processing. The collection opens with a foreword and introductory theoretical chapters written by leading figures in...
Speaking Up
Understanding Language and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
From slut-shaming to the allegedly shrill voices of female politicians, from vocal fry to online misogyny, the language women use (and the language used about them) is as controversial as it has ever been. Our language use and our gender have an enormous impact on the way we understand ourselves and...
by Matthew T. Prior
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
This book examines the interactional management of emotionality in second language autobiographical interview research. Advancing a discursive constructionist approach, it offers a timely methodological and reflexive perspective that brings into focus the dynamic and dilemmatic aspects of interviewee...