Foreign Languages and Foreign Language Education as Critical and Intercu
The purpose of the book is to highlight the critical and intercultural potential of foreign languages and foreign language education. The book addresses the complexity of the experience of (foreign) languages and offers both theoretical interdisciplinary suggestions and applie...
This book reconstructs the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese. Watanabe takes a fundamentally different approach from previous analyses by examining the syntactic distribution of temporal suffixes in Manyoshu, an eighth-century poetry collection.
Debate as Global Pedagogy: Rwanda Rising illustrates that the teaching of debate offers an ideal educational approach for the prevention and remediation of genocide. As the antithesis of propaganda, debate and argument instruction promotes the critical thinking necessary to resist processes of propaganda that enable injustice and human rights ......
This book brings a new methodological framework for classification of Montenegrin dialects, introducing new criteria to it and focusing on the isoglosses which make those dialects compact. The book is based on field research published in the past 150 years.
This book considers the concept of linguistic creativity in relation to contact languages and language educational. The perspective proposed places semiotic creativity to the rank of first principle, by which languages are defined, function, and interact.
Adopting a poststructural approach, Multimodalities and Chinese Students' L2 Practices examines the intertwined relationship between positioning and agency in multilingual, multicultural, and multimodal contexts, using evidence from Chinese international students' experiences as English learners.
Humor Competency Training in English Language Teaching
Humor competence in the target language is an overlooked tool for English language learners to communicate confidently and proficiently in English. In this innovative edited collection, language teachers and researchers from around the globe share their latest research on helping learners to overcome the humor barrier.
Developing a new theory of morphosyntactic feature economy in a morphology framework, this book uses a biolinguistic approach to examine the evolution of Slavic languages to discover how some developed a separate dual number category while others have only singular and plural and to explain the evolution of the number category in Slavic languages.
An Introductory Course for Heritage Learners of Russian
Rodnaya rech' / , an introductory textbook for heritage learners of Russian, addresses the unique needs of students who have at least Intermediate-level listening and speaking skills but who have underdeveloped or nonexistent literacy skills. It can be used in an intensive one-semester class or at a more measured pace over two ......
