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TEACHING ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE This is an interesting and insightful book that uses both Western and Vietnamese theoretical resources to underscore the importance of understanding the shifting professional identities of a group of Vietnamese ESL teachers, as they struggle to come to terms with competing pressures, both national and transnational. It shows that these teachers stand at the vanguard of a new era in which English represents the possibilities of greater intercultural understanding but also a hegemonic globalism that poses the risks of marginalizing other languages and cultural traditions. Phan Le Ha has fulfilled such a daunting task, especially in terms of epistemology. Her critical discussion of and engagement with both Western and non-Western philosophies and knowledge is one of the most powerful elements of the book that offers meaningful space to any of us, teachers of the English language, to relate, reflect and grow.Associate Professor Jayakaran Mukundan, Universiti Putra Malaysia Drawing on both Western and Asian theoretical frameworks, this book showcases the complex and sophistication of the negotiations that EIL teachers have to make when their identities are challenged by values and practices that seem contradictory to their own. Through resistance and negotiations and by holding firm to the teacher-as-moral-guide role, their identities are constantly constructed and reconstituted. New Perspectives on Language and Education March 2008 180pp For further information click on the following link: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847690487 To order at 25% discount: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/members.asp?cid=mmmem |
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ADVOCATING FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS A collection of 18 essays addressing the policy and politics of educating English language learners. Subjects include demographic change and its educational implications, American responses to language diversity, public controversies over bilingual education, high-stakes testing and its impact on English language learners, and the precarious status of language rights in the USA. Bilingual Education & Bilingualism April 2008 200pp For further information click on the following link: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847690722 |
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TRANSLATION, GLOBALISATION AND LOCALISATION Translation, Globalisation and Localisation is an important and altogether timely contribution to a greater conversation about the meanings of globalization and cultural translation. This rich, searching and detailed collection of essays provides fine insight into a cluster of related issues: translation itself, globalization, postcoloniality, hegemony and appropriation, modes of cultural analysis. This fine collection shows how effectively rigorous academic analysis can deepen our understanding of contemporary social realities. This is the first anthology of translation studies edited by two leading Chinese scholars in the field published in the English speaking world. The essays deal with translation studies in a global/local context and from a Chinese perspective. Such cutting edge theoretic topics as globalisation, postcolonial theory, diaspora writing, polysystem theory, and East-West comparative literature and culture studies are discussed in an in-depth and accessible way. Topics in Translation March/2008 220pp For further information click on the following link: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847690531 |
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RESEARCH IN LOGOPEDICS This book links theoretical approaches of logopedics to clinical practices of speech and language therapy in Finland and in Finnish language. It provides the readers with interesting examples of and insights into the communication challenges in a language that differs substantially from those used in the majority of published reports in the field of language and communication disorders. Communication Disorders Across Languages April 2008 240pp For further information click on the following link: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847690586To order at 25% discount: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/members.asp?cid=mmmem Removal 28 August 2008 |
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LANGUAGE PLANNING AND POLICY: LANGUAGE PLANNING IN LOCAL CONTEXTS Language problems potentially exist at all levels of human activity, including the local contexts of communities and institutions. This volume examines the ways in which language planning works as a local activity in a wide variety of contexts around the world and dealing with a wide range of language planning issues. Language Planning and Policy April 2008 298pp For further information click on the following link: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847690630 To order at 25% discount: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/members.asp?cid=mmmem Removal 28 August 2008 |
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GLOBALLY SPEAKING The volume examines the motives for lexical borrowing from English during the last century, the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments, and the extent of its integration into twelve languages representing several language families. Many of these absorbing languages are studied here for the first time. Multilingual Matters May 2008 344pp For further information click on the following link: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847690517 To order at 25% discount: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/members.asp?cid=mmmem Removal 25 September 2008 |
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MORPHOSYNTACTIC ISSUES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION This volume should be of interest not only to linguists and applied linguists, but also to graduate researchers of SLA since many of the contributions include reviews of the relevant theoretical issues. It is an excellent volume with challenging insights that should lead to a new thinking on morphosyntax development in SLA and to a departure from more traditional empirical data measurement to newer introspective-type research instrumentation. This volume presents a selection of second language acquisition studies at the level of morphosyntax. It looks at different aspects of morphosyntactic development of bilingual language learners/users such as language transfer, syntactic processing, morphology and the pragmatics of language among others. The studies report on projects carried out in different language contact contexts, ranging from: English, German, Polish, Greek and Turkish. The volume also includes those studies which show the interface between research findings and pedagogy of foreign language teaching. Second Language Acquisition May 2008 280pp For further information click on the following link: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847690654 To order at 25% discount: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/members.asp?cid=mmmem |
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EQUAL RIGHTS TO THE CURRICULUM The book is challenging and the author’s approach is novel but it is extremely readable and there is a wealth of research-based sources to give strong theoretical background to her arguments. There is also an enormous amount of practical and usable advice for parents, students, teachers and school leaders. The levels of passion and commitment are engaging and bring the author’s propositions very much to life. I believe it is worthy of becoming one of the most fundamental and influential contributions to the field of SLA in the International Schools in many years. This highly original book is written by an expert and experienced teacher who has considerable insight and inner understanding of classrooms and schools. It will spread best practice and increase school effectiveness in policy, provision and practice. This book addresses issues that educators, policy makers and parents of linguistically diverse children must face when teaching in, administrating or choosing an International School. The author draws on teaching theory to propose guidelines, best practice and checklists for ensuring that all children in a school’s multicultural society benefit from a truly inclusive curriculum, regardless of their linguistic and cultural origins. Parents' and Teachers Guides May 2008 184pp For further information click on the following link: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847690678 To order at 25% discount: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/members.asp?cid=mmmem |
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FROM FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION TO EDUCATION FOR INTERCULTURAL CITIZENSHIP I enjoyed reading this book. It promises to be a typically clear and compelling discussion of the institutional implications for adopting an intercultural approach to language teaching in European schools. It deserves to be read and debated widely. This collection of essays analyses the evolution of theory of intercultural competence and its relationship to education for citizenship. It does so by analysing the concepts of intercultural competence, including the notion of the intercultural speaker, by discussing the ways in which language education policy develops and by comparing the theories and purposes of foreign language education and education for citizenship. Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education May 2008 288pp For further information click on the following link: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847690784 To order at 25% discount: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/members.asp?cid=mmmem |
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LANGUAGE TEACHER IDENTITIES At a time when identity studies in ELT might seem conceptually exhausted, along comes this highly original and insightful work. Matthew Clarke creates an impressive theoretical framework with which to understand the complex formation of a community of English language teachers in a society re-assessing its own collective values within and against a globalizing world. Matthew Clarke's remarkable research in the United Arab Emirates provides a window on the intriguing relationship between language teacher identity, discourse, and community in diverse regions of the world. His insightful analysis, informed by a comprehensive review of literature, makes a timely contribution to a growing area of research. The book is clearly a 'must read' for scholars interested in contemporary debates on language and identity in applied linguistics and second language education. This book explores the development of the first cohort of students to complete a new Bachelor of Education in English language teaching in the United Arab Emirates, theorizing the students’ learning to teach in terms of the discursive construction of a teaching identity within an evolving community of practice. New Perspectives on Language and Education June 2008 c 240pp For further information click on the following link: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847690814 To order at 25% discount: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/members.asp?cid=mmmem |
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