Multilingual Matters imprint: 455 books
Discontinuity in Second Language Acquisition
The Switch between Statistical and Grammatical Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
With a particular focus on the morphosyntactic features of second language, this book discusses the idea that language acquisition is a discontinuous and 'quantized' process and thus that some items might be learned twice, statistically and grammatically. It argues that the switch from one way of...
Language and Learning in the International University
From English Uniformity to Diversity and Hybridity
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
This book views the international university as a microcosm of a world where internationalization does not equate with across-the-board use of English, but rather with the practice of linguistic and cultural diversity, even in the face of Anglophone dominance. The globalization-localization continuum...
The Japanese Writing System
Challenges, Strategies and Self-regulation for Learning Kanji
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This is the first book devoted to exploring issues of learning written Japanese, focusing on the challenges the writing system poses for the second language learner. It weaves together previous research on Japanese second language acquisition and kanji learning with original studies on self-regulation...
Race and Ethnicity in English Language Teaching
Korea in Focus
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book examines racism and racialized discourses in the ELT profession in South Korea. The book is informed by a number of different critical approaches to race and discourse, and the discussions contained in the chapters offer one way of exploring how the ELT profession can be understood from...
Dialogic Pedagogy
The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth theoretical perspective on dialogue in teaching. It explores the philosophy of dialogism as a social theory of language and explains its importance in teaching and learning. Departing from the more traditional teacher-led mode of teacher–student communication,...
Assessing Grammar
The Languages of LARSP
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
This collection is a resource book for those working with language disordered clients in a range of languages. It collects together versions of the well-known Language Assessment Remediation Screening Procedure (LARSP) prepared for different languages. Starting with the original version for English,...
Spirituality and English Language Teaching
Religious Explorations of Teacher Identity, Pedagogy and Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
This collection of 16 reflective accounts and data-driven studies explores the interrelationship of religious identity and English Language Teaching (ELT). The chapters broaden a topic which has traditionally focused on Christianity by including Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and non-religious perspectives....
Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship
Rights, Access, Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
This volume explores the concept of 'citizenship', and argues that it should be understood both as a process of becoming and the ability to participate fully, rather than as a status that can be inherited, acquired, or achieved. From a courtroom in Bulawayo to a nursery in Birmingham, the authors...
by Leisy Wyman
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Detailing a decade of life and language use in a remote Alaskan Yup'ik community, Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance provides rare insight into young people's language brokering and Indigenous people's contemporary linguistic ecologies. This book examines how two consecutive...
Survival and Development of Language Communities
Prospects and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Too small to be big, but also too big to be really small, medium-sized language communities (MSLCs) face their own challenges in a rapidly globalising world where multilingualism and mobility seem to be eroding the old securities that the monolingual nation states provided. The questions to be answered...
by Widin, Jacqueline
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
This book lays bare the tensions and powerlines which emerge between participants in the volatile international ELT project market place. The book focuses on two international ELT projects and maps the prevailing interests in the field while seeking ways that providers and donors can more equally distribute linguistic, educational and economic resources.
Interactional Categorization and Gatekeeping
Institutional Encounters with Otherness
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
This book is about categorization processes in native/non-native workplace interaction, within the context of internship interviews between Danish employers and second language speakers who were born abroad. In this volume, which is one of the first books on gatekeeping, Tranekjær seeks to address...
Understanding Language Use in the Classroom
Including Teaching Materials for College Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
It is clear that a proper understanding of what academic English is and how to use it is crucial for success in college, and yet students face multiple obstacles in acquiring this new 'code', not least that their professors often cannot agree among themselves on a definition and a set of rules. Understanding...
Understanding Language Use in the Classroom
Including Teaching Materials for College Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
It is clear that a proper understanding of what academic English is and how to use it is crucial for success in college, and yet students face multiple obstacles in acquiring this new 'code', not least that their professors often cannot agree among themselves on a definition and a set of rules. Understanding...