Crossroads in Literature and Culture focuses on the idea of crossing boundaries in English literary and cultural texts. Authors from various disciplines analyse texts from varying periods of history and cultures, in search of what similarities exist between them.
Crossroads in Literature and Culture focuses on the idea of crossing boundaries in English literary and cultural texts. Authors from various discip...
The volume provides an up-to-date account of theory and research on the role of individual variables in the process of learning and teaching foreign languages. It aims to capture the relationship between individual learner differences and other variables.
The volume provides an up-to-date account of theory and research on the role of individual variables in the process of learning and teaching foreign l...
This volume approaches second language phonology via the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers. Readers will find a unique combination of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and pedagogical approaches.
This volume approaches second language phonology via the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers. Readers will find a unique co...
This book explores cross-linguistic influences in the context of multilingual language acquisition, discussing syntactic and lexical development of foreign language learners from different L1 backgrounds, such as Russian, Croatian, Greek and Portuguese.
This book explores cross-linguistic influences in the context of multilingual language acquisition, discussing syntactic and lexical development of fo...
This book presents a collection of thematically focused articles addressing culture-specific features of academic communication, with a particular focus on communication conducted in English as an Additional Language and directed at multicultural audiences. It comprises papers arranged in four sections: Expert writers, Novice writers and readers, Conference participants, and Non-research academic genres. The book explicitly addresses and is centred upon the concept of a research niche understood as a space to be captured and populated, as a temporary location to move or grow out of in the...
This book presents a collection of thematically focused articles addressing culture-specific features of academic communication, with a particular ...
This book brings together papers dealing with essential issues in applied linguistics and multilingualism that have been contributed by leading figures in these two fields and present state-of-the-art developments in theory and research. The first part includes articles touching on various aspects of multiple-language acquisition, with a particular emphasis on the role of affordances, the interfaces between language and thought, and factors influencing the process of language learning. Part Two deals with individual variations in the acquisition of additional languages, focusing in particular...
This book brings together papers dealing with essential issues in applied linguistics and multilingualism that have been contributed by leading figure...
Contains theoretical and empirical research on foreign or second language processes analyzed from the perspective of cognition and affect. This title consists of articles devoted to various issued related to such broad topics as gender, literacy, translation or culture, to mention a few.
Contains theoretical and empirical research on foreign or second language processes analyzed from the perspective of cognition and affect. This title ...
This book covers topics as English as lingua franca, foreign language teacher training, individual learner differences in language learning and teaching, literary translation, translator strategies, dictionary use, translator training and more.
This book covers topics as English as lingua franca, foreign language teacher training, individual learner differences in language learning and teachi...
This volume collects papers related to different aspects of classroom-oriented research on teaching and learning second and foreign languages. It provides important guidelines for researchers interested in conducting their own classroom-oriented research.
This volume collects papers related to different aspects of classroom-oriented research on teaching and learning second and foreign languages. It prov...
The papers included in the volume look at how language awareness affects the outcomes of foreign and second language acquisition in advanced learners. The book focuses on questions such as how much linguistic knowledge is open to the learner's conscious experience, what should and should not be considered the knowledge of language, how language awareness can be enhanced in the classroom, and, most crucially, what effects language awareness has on attained proficiency. Some papers in the volume also address methodological challenges of researching language awareness, such as the difficulty of...
The papers included in the volume look at how language awareness affects the outcomes of foreign and second language acquisition in advanced learners....
