Channel View Publications: 585 books
Whos Afraid of Multilingual Education?
Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Context and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
More than 70 languages are spoken in contemporary Iran, yet all governmental correspondence and educational textbooks must be written in Farsi. To date, the Iranian mother tongue debate has remained far from the international scholarly exchanges of ideas about multilingual education. This book bridges...
by Peter HOWELL and John VAN BORSEL
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
This book contains contributions by scholars working on diverse aspects of speech who bring their findings to bear on the practical issue of how to treat stuttering in different language groups and in multilingual speakers. The book considers classic issues in speech production research, as well as whether...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
With growing mass migration across the globe, researchers, practitioners, educators and policy makers are increasingly faced with rising numbers of multilingual children and adults. This volume raises key issues surrounding the evaluation of language abilities and proficiency in multilingual speakers,...
Names and Naming
People, Places, Perceptions and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of onomastic enquiry. Naming practices are viewed here through a critical lens, demonstrating a high level of political and social engagement in relation to how we name people and places. The contributors to this...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2008
The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. The volume brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings. The number and variety of languages involved both as the first language (e.g....
English-Medium Instruction at Universities
Global Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
This book provides critical insights into the English-medium instruction (EMI) experiences which have been implemented at a number of universities in countries such as China, Finland, Israel, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain and the USA, which are characterised by differing political, cultural...
Content and Language Integrated Learning
Evidence from Research in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
This book contributes to the growth of interest in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), an approach to second/foreign language learning that requires the use of the target language to learn content. Within the framework of European strategies to promote multilingualism, CLIL has begun...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This volume focuses on the role of language in the construction of knowledge about HIV/AIDS in diverse regions of the world. The collection of studies yields helpful insights about the discursive construction of this knowledge in both formal and informal contexts, while demonstrating how the tools...
Equal Rights to the Curriculum
Many Languages, One Message
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
The parents of second language children are often seen but not heard in schools. This book is unique in addressing the many issues facing parents of children whose first language is different from that of the school classroom.
Drawing on teaching theory, the book provides these parents with...
by Karen Risager
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. The framework is transferable to other kinds of learning materials and to other subjects. The framework distinguishes between...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Inquiry into signed languages has added to what is known about structural variation and language, language learning, and cognitive processing of language. However, comparatively little research has focused on communication disorders in signed language users. For some deaf children, atypicality is...
Language, Migration and Social Inequalities
A Critical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Institutions and Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Migration and the mobility of citizens around the globe pose important challenges to the linguistic and cultural homogeneity that nation-states rely on for defining their physical boundaries and identity, as well as the rights and obligations of their citizens. A new social order resulting from neoliberal...
Multilingual Universities in South Africa
Reflecting Society in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Focusing on the use of African languages in higher education, this book showcases South African higher education practitioners’ attempts to promote a multilingual ethos in their classes. It is a first-time overview of multilingual teaching and learning strategies that have been tried and tested...
Language Conflict in Algeria
From Colonialism to Post-Independence
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
This is a book about the use of languages as a proxy for conflict. It traces the history of Algeria from colonization by the French in 1830 to the celebration of 50 years of independence in 2012, and examines the linguistic issues that have accompanied this turbulent period. The book begins with an...