Channel View Publications: 585 books
Assessing Multilingual Children
Disentangling Bilingualism from Language Impairment
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Second language learners often produce language forms resembling those of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). At present, professionals working in language assessment and education have only limited diagnostic instruments to distinguish language impaired migrant children from those who...
by Mario E. López-Gopar
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book tells the story of a project in Mexico which aimed to decolonize primary English teaching by building on research that suggests Indigenous students are struggling in educational systems and are discriminated against by the mainstream. Led by their instructor, a group of student teachers...
English Language as Hydra
Its Impacts on Non-English Language Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In far too many places, the worldwide trade in English-language teaching, testing and publishing has become a self-perpetuating, self-congratulating, neocolonial monster … a veritable multi-headed Hydra. Too often the English language industry aggressively promotes itself as some sort of “uplifting”,...
Capitalizing on Language Learners' Individuality
From Premise to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
This book closes the gap between theory and classroom application by capitalizing on learners’ individuality in second or foreign language learning. The book examines the existing literature and theoretical underpinnings of each of the most prominent learner characteristics including anxiety, beliefs,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The Acquisition of L2 Phonology is a wide-ranging new collection which focuses on various aspects of the acquisition of an L2 phonological system. The authors are researchers and practitioners from five different countries. The volume has been divided into three major sections. Phonetic Analysis presents...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
This volume provides an unprecedented insight into current approaches to crosslinguistic influence (CLI). The collection investigates a range of themes including linguistic relativity, the possible contributions of neurolinguistics, the problem of cognitive development and the role of the frequency...
Talking About Global Migration
Implications for Language Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
How do migrants describe themselves and their experiences? As the world faces a migration crisis, there is an enhanced need for educational responses to the linguistic and cultural diversity of student bodies, and for consideration of migrant students at all levels of the curriculum. This book explores...
The Bilingual Mental Lexicon
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
How are words organized in the bilingual mind? How are they linked to concepts? How do bi- and multilinguals process words in their multiple languages? The first aim of this volume is to offer up-to-date answers to these questions. Its second aim is to provide readers with detailed step-by-step introductions...
by Dr. Sarah J. Shin
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book explores the experiences of men and women who train to teach ESL as a second career. Drawing from in-depth interviews and observations of 30 students (aged 45 to 73) in a TESOL graduate program, this book provides portraits of these individuals as they develop as teachers. It describes the...
Second Language Students in English-Medium Classrooms
A Guide for Teachers in International Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Second Language Students in English-Medium Classrooms offers a real-life practical guide to teachers that will enable them to serve students from many linguistic and cultural backgrounds effectively. Written in an accessible manner it includes numerous exemplary strategies and resources as well as...
Globally Speaking
Motives for Adopting English Vocabulary in Other Languages
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2008
This volume accounts for the motives for contemporary lexical borrowing from English, using a comparative approach and a broad cross-cultural perspective. It investigates the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments and the extent of their integration into...
by Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
This is a sequel to the author’s best-selling A Practical Guide for Translators first published in 1993 and now in its 4th edition. Managing Translation Services looks at how to successfully make the change from being a single freelance translator to developing a translation company offering a range...
Language and Learning in Multilingual Classrooms
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This book is a research-based practical guide for educators who work with students whose linguistic and cultural background is different from their own. Illustrated with many practical examples of classroom activities, projects, and teaching strategies, the book is also an introduction to immigrant...
Identity and Language Learning
Extending the Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and imagined communities in the field of language learning and teaching. Bonny Norton demonstrates that a poststructuralist conception of identity as multiple,...