This superbly organised presentation consists of four introductory theoretical chapters dealing with the why, what and how of RLS, six chapters devoted to 13 separate cases from various parts of the w
This book presents an interesting new perspective on the study of the lexicon, examining ways in which insights from translation and language learning can be viewed as complementary. The contributors
This well-illustrated encyclopedia--with color and b&w photographs, graphics, maps, textboxes, and global examples--encompasses timely bilingualism-related topics and areas such as: information te
Presents the latest findings and theoretical frameworks on what actually happens when people learn to recognize printed words. Among the topics are phonological recoding, identifying meaning, the cont
Offers some theoretical innovations in teaching foreign languages and reports how they have been applied to curriculum development and experimental courses at the upper secondary and college levels. A
Until recently, the history of debates about language and thought has been a history of thinking of language in the singular. The purpose of this volume is to reverse this trend and to begin unlockin
This book presents, for the first time, an overarching, trans-Scandinavian, comprehensive and comparable account of linguistic developments and practices in late modern urban contact zones. The book
For parents, teachers, and others working with children, Barron-Hauwaert, an independent researcher who has a bilingual family and studies bilingual families and their language patterns, examines bili
Taking a different perspective to traditional case studies on one bilingual child, this book discusses the whole family and the realities of life with two or more children and languages. What do we kn
Tribe (tourism, U. of Surrey, UK) presents 16 essays on the insights to be gained from tourism and travel into such philosophical concepts as truth, reality, and knowledge; aesthetics and art; and vir
Through this study, Jorda (English studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castello, Spain) attempts to create a bridge between two applied linguistics subfields--interlanguage pragmatics and third language acq
Sixteen European academics and researchers contribute 13 chapters concerned with corpora and translation. Several chapters discussing corpus linguistics and its emerging role in translation studies ex
Drawing on the experiences of parents and interdisciplinary research in multilingual literacy development, Wang (education, Pace U.) presents a guide for parents who wish to raise multilingual childre
In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in order to investigate the l
Describing herself as a Spanish-speaking Anglo-American former teacher of English as a second language (ESL) who is now a graduate student researcher, Menard-Warwick (linguistics, U. of California-Dav
Power and culture are inextricably bound up with tourism. The anthropological case studies in this groundbreaking book explore this relationship in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Austra
Talk, Text and Technology is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This study traces one Indigenous group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy in th
Sixteen scholars from Western countries address European acquisition of English as a third language, contrasting it with acquiring English as a second language. Third language learners more often have
Many of the international contributors to this book are specialists in immersion teaching, from fields including languages, education, linguistics, and psychology. They describe current practices and
Gibson (geography, U. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) and Connell (geography, U. of Sydney) present the first text on the evolving phenomenon of music tourism, in which people travel to various
