Multilingual Matters imprint: 455 books
Prescription and Tradition in Language
Establishing Standards across Time and Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the...
Interpretation
Techniques and Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
In recent decades the explosive growth of globalization and regional integration has fuelled parallel growth in multilingual conferences. Although conference interpreting has come of age as a profession, interpreter training programs have had varied success, pointing to the need for an instructional...
by Suzanne BARRON-HAUWAERT
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2004
Lots of new parents these days have the opportunity to bring up their child with two or more languages because of increasing job mobility and the global community. The benefits of bilingualism and biculturalism such as higher cognitive skills, an awareness of language and sensitivity to other cultures,...
Third Language Learners
Pragmatic Production and Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
The book focuses on one aspect of foreign language acquisition that has not received much attention, that of the effect of bilingualism in the oral production of the English language learners. Two research areas have tackled this issue separately. On the one hand, third language acquisition researchers...
by Pia Resnik
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
This book investigates the interplay of language, emotion and gender in a multilingual context and provides rich insights into the complexities of bilingualism and the field of emotion research, as well as the intersection of both. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses of data, the book...
Crosslinguistic Influence in Multilinguals
An Examination of Chinese-English-French Speakers
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book reports on a research project conducted in multilingual Hong Kong, where Cantonese is the mother tongue (L1) of the majority of the population and learning different foreign languages is commonplace. In addition to English, which is usually the second language (L2), more and more people...
Linguistic Landscapes
A Comparative Study of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Linguistic Landscapes is the first comprehensive approach to a largely under-explored sociolinguistic phenomenon: language on signs. Based on an up-to-date review of previous research from various places around the world, the book develops an analytical framework for the systematic analysis of linguistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar contains nine chapters on adult third language (L3) or multilingual acquisition from the Universal Grammar (UG) perspective. A variety of languages other than English are involved in the studies reported in the papers, including Cantonese Chinese, French,...
Literacy Practices in Transition
Perspectives from the Nordic Countries
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Literacy Practices in Transition explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of contemporary mobile societies. The detailed empirical analyses show how these connections affect individuals,...
Translanguaging in Higher Education
Beyond Monolingual Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book examines translanguaging in higher education and provides clear examples of what translanguaging looks like in practice in particular contexts around the world. While higher education has historically been seen as a monolingual space, the case studies from the international contexts included...
Critical Reflections on Research Methods
Power and Equity in Complex Multilingual Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
This book explores the challenges and opportunities involved in conducting research with members of immigrant, refugee and other minoritized communities. Through first-hand reflective accounts, contributors explore community-based collaborative work, and suggest important implications for applied...
by Dr. Michelle Kohler
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language teachers are key figures in preparing young people for participation in an increasingly multilingual and culturally diverse world, yet little is known about how they go about this in practice. This book uses examples of classroom interaction to reveal how teachers of languages act as intercultural...
by Assoc. Prof. Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
In this monograph, Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin presents the results of his empirical investigation into the impact of multilingual practice on an individual's creative potential. Until now, the relationship between these two activities has received little attention in the academic community. The book makes...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
This volume bridges the knowledge gap between second language acquisition researchers and second language pedagogy professionals in its focus on a topic of mutual interest: input. The reader-friendly contributions from seasoned researchers including Stephen Krashen, Bill VanPatten and new voices offer...