This textbook aims to help students to develop thesis-writing skills through experiential learning by conducting a research project based on a diary study, and reporting on it in a mini-thesis. It was developed for the benefit of international students who, in their penultimate year of undergraduate study, are planning to write a graduation thesis in English related to intercultural communication in their final year with little or no prior knowledge of the subject, or of thesis-writing itself. The overarching structure of the book provides a clear overview of the main parts of a thesis, and...
This textbook aims to help students to develop thesis-writing skills through experiential learning by conducting a research project based on a diary s...
In a rapidly globalizing world, one of the most challenging barriers to be overcome is the stereotype. This book aims to promote understanding of the nature of stereotypes, and to suggest ways in which teachers can manage them by developing critical cultural awareness as an intrinsic part of the intercultural communicative competence of their students. Part 1 of the book explores ways of defining, eliciting and illustrating stereotypes from theoretical standpoints. Part 2 showcases ways of addressing stereotypes through intercultural (language) education to provide teachers with a firm...
In a rapidly globalizing world, one of the most challenging barriers to be overcome is the stereotype. This book aims to promote understanding of the ...
Within foreign language education contexts across the globe, inadequate attention has been paid to documenting the dynamics of identity development, negotiation and management. This book looks at these dynamics in specific relation to otherness, in addition to attitudinal and behavioural overtones created through use of the term 'foreign' (despite its position as an integral marker in language acquisition discourse).
This book argues that individual identities are multidimensional constructs that gravitate around a hub of intricate social networks of multimodal intergroup...
Within foreign language education contexts across the globe, inadequate attention has been paid to documenting the dynamics of identity development...
This textbook will help students to develop thesis-writing skills through experiential learning by conducting a research project based on questionnaire- and interview-based research focusing on stereotypes, and reporting on it in a mini-thesis. It was developed for the benefit of international students who, in their penultimate year of study, are planning to write a graduation thesis in English related to stereotypes in their final year with little or no prior knowledge of the subject, or of thesis-writing itself. The overarching structure of the book provides a clear overview of the main...
This textbook will help students to develop thesis-writing skills through experiential learning by conducting a research project based on questionnair...
This book shares memories of childhood in northern England many moons ago, highlighting how the past has become the present as we find ourselves in the now through art and text.
This book shares memories of childhood in northern England many moons ago, highlighting how the past has become the present as we find ourselves in th...
This intercultural communication textbook challenges students to explore and visualize intercultural communication in an ageing society by conducting and reporting on a small-scale research project. Students will explore various academic concepts and theories related to intercultural communication and link them to social trends related to increased life expectancy, shifting lifestyles patterns across life stages, the impact of artificial intelligence on the workplace and physical health and fitness among other things. I would like to thank my mother, Isabelle Llewellyn, for permitting me to...
This intercultural communication textbook challenges students to explore and visualize intercultural communication in an ageing society by conducting ...
This book probes for a post-native-speakerist future and explores the nature of (English and Japanese) native-speakerism in the Japanese context, and possible grounds on which language teachers could be employed if native-speakerism is rejected (i.e., what are the language teachers of the future expected to do, and be, in practice).
This book probes for a post-native-speakerist future and explores the nature of (English and Japanese) native-speakerism in the Japanese context, and ...