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The Pragmatics of Catalan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

The Pragmatics of Catalan

This book aims to disseminate at an international level a set of innovative studies whose descriptive and applied point of reference is the Catalan language. The volume constitutes a significant contribution to the field of intercultural pragmatics and also to a broad range of grammatical and cognitive issues which have been approached from the pragmatic perspective.

Profiling plurilingual education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 138

Profiling plurilingual education

Aquest volum és el resultat d’un projecte desenvolupat per la xarxa d’investigació Educación Plurilingüe (EDUPLUS) i finançat pel Ministeri de Ciència, Innovació i Universitats (RED2018-102774-T). La finalitat d’EDUPLUS és reforçar els vincles entre un total de sis equips de recerca de diferents universitats i comunitats autònomes d’Espanya, tots coneguts pel seu treball per establir una base científica sòlida per a la promoció de l’educació plurilingüe. El projecte es pot veure com una resposta a la necessitat de coordinar esforços de recerca per tal d’aconseguir una millor comprensió del procés d’aprenentatge simultani de tres (o més llengües) i el desenvolupament de models d’ensenyament basats en la noció de “competència plurilingüe”. La resposta d’EDUPLUS ha consistit en proposar un marc de recollida i anàlisi de dades que permetés un cert grau d’homogeneïtat pel que fa a les dades a recollir en els diferents sistemes educatius. Això permetria adoptar un enfocament comparatiu dels processos i dels productes de l’educació plurilingüe. El marc inclou tres nivells d’anàlisi: la comunitat autònoma, l’escola i l’aula.

Getting to Know Ourselves and Others Through the ABCs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

Getting to Know Ourselves and Others Through the ABCs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-01-01
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  • Publisher: IAP

This book is a valuable resource for teachers and other professionals who are looking for a proven way to increase cultural appreciation and awareness. New applications of the ABCs model of Cultural Understanding and Communication are presented and discussed in this new volume, based on studies done in the United States, and Canada and Europe. In this ground-breaking project, the authors describe how the ABCs model complicated and challenged and changed the cultural perceptions of those who participated in it, even those who were initially highly resistant to such possibilities. At the heart of the project is the exchange of narratives – life stories that give insight into the cultural wor...

Non-Native Language Teachers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Non-Native Language Teachers

As non-natives are increasingly found teaching languages, particularly English, both in ESL and EFL contexts, the identification of their specific contributions and their main strengths has become more relevant than ever. This volume provides different approaches to the study of non-native teachers: NNS teachers as seen by students, teachers, graduate supervisors, and by themselves. It contributes seldom-explored perspectives, like classroom discourse analysis, and social-psychological framework to discuss conceptions of NNS teachers.

Interculturality Online
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Interculturality Online

The contested and polysemic concept of ideology has been used only marginally in research on intercultural communication education. This edited volume focuses on the ideological dimensions of online interculturality in higher education, encompassing areas such as telecollaboration, virtual classrooms and online teacher professional development. The chapter authors explore the intercultural engagements, perceptions and experiences of students, teachers and researchers in different parts of the world, including Australia, China, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain and the USA. In doing so, they aim to contribute to the current critical and reflexive turn in r...

Becoming Intercultural
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Becoming Intercultural

As people move into the new era of the twenty-first century, they will have more and more opportunities to communicate and interact with others using foreign languages. While this will naturally generate wide-ranging intercultural experience, people may not be alert to it in everyday life, and teachers may not know how to address the issues that arise. This book starts by exploring what it means to be intercultural from different theoretical standpoints, before contrasting ways in which people do (or do not) become intercultural in both tutored and untutored ways, inside and outside the classroom. The main purpose of this book is to introduce the concept of interculturality, to examine how it can emerge in an unplanned way and to consider ways in which it can be more systematically addressed through education, particularly through foreign language education.

The Routledge Handbook of English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 601

The Routledge Handbook of English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education

This Handbook discusses the theoretical and disciplinary background to the study of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education worldwide. It highlights issues relating to EMI pedagogy, varying motivations for EMI education, and the delivery of EMI in diverse contexts across the world. The spread of English as a teaching medium and the lingua franca of the academic world has been the subject of various debates in recent years on the perceived hegemony of the English language and the ‘domain loss’ of non-English languages in academic communication. Encompassing a wide range of contributions to the field of EMI, the chapters of this Handbook are arranged in four distinct parts: Pa...

English as an International Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

English as an International Language

The rapid global spread of the English language has serious linguistic, ideological, socio-cultural, political, and pedagogical implications as it creates both positive interactions and negative tensions between global and local forces. Accordingly, debate about issues such as the native/non-native divide, the politics of an international language, communication in a Lingua Franca, the choice of a model for ELT, and the link between English and identity(ies) has stimulated scholarly inquiry in an unprecedented way. The chapters in this volume revisit, challenge, and expand upon established arguments and positions regarding the politics, policies, pedagogies, and practices of English as an international language, as well as its sociolinguistic and socio-psychological complexities.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 856

Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an authoritative reference dealing with all aspects of this increasingly important field of study. Offering a comprehensive range of articles on contemporary language teaching and its history, it has been produced specifically for language teaching professionals and as a reference work for academic studies at postgraduate level. In this new edition, every single entry has been reviewed and updated with reference to new developments and publications. Coverage has been expanded to reflect new technological, global and academic developments, with particular attention to areas such as online and distance learning, teacher and learne...

Pedagogical Stylistics in the 21st Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Pedagogical Stylistics in the 21st Century

This edited book provides cutting edge contributions from an international array of prominent experts who discuss the relevance of pedagogical stylistics in relation to diverse contexts and areas, including empirical approaches, corpus stylistics, creative writing, literary-linguistic criticism, students as researchers, critical discourse, academic register, text-world pedagogy, cognitive stylistics, classroom discourse, language of literary texts, L1/L2 education, EFL learners, and multimodal stylistics. Intended as a follow-up to Watson and Zyngier (2007), this volume situates the reader by offering a broad assessment of how the field has developed during the past 15 years and where it stands now. By examining both contemporary research and future challenges, it should be regarded as essential reading for all teachers, researchers, scholars, and students interested in understanding language and how to apply stylistics in educational settings. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in stylistics, cognitive linguistics, language teaching, applied linguistics, literary studies, and materials development.