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 ...
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....
This volume inscribes itself in the long-standing debate on the question of the status of the word. Considering the multi-faceted nature of the word, the authors are aware that no answer to the question might be exhaustive, yet they realize that each answer brings us closer to a fuller understanding of the issue. The eleven authors included here address the nature of the word from a number of perspectives, such as the duality of the word; the status of the word as a meaningful unit; the meaning extension; the lexico-grammar continuum; and the pragmatic functioning of the word, to name but a...
This volume inscribes itself in the long-standing debate on the question of the status of the word. Considering the multi-faceted nature of the word, ...
This book looks at how language awareness affects the outcomes of foreign and second language acquisition in advanced learners. It examines how language awareness can be enhanced in the classroom and what effects language awareness has on attained proficiency.
This book looks at how language awareness affects the outcomes of foreign and second language acquisition in advanced learners. It examines how langua...
