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 ......
Faces of Contemporary Russia is a one-semester textbook for high-intermediate to advanced level Russian students that aims to develop students' linguistic proficiency by examining significant personalities in current Russian culture. In addition to introductory and concluding chapters, the book features twelve individuals (one per chapter), ......
This book provides cognitive-cum-linguistic analyses of political speeches simultaneously translated from English into Arabic and vice versa. It focuses on how media interpreters, especially TV ones, cognitively address the source texts in the process of translating them in real time.
Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Diasporic Identity
Second-Generation South Asian Britons: Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Diasporic Identity offers scholars in the field of sociolinguistics a valuable insight into the discourses of second-generation British South Asians, and their relationship with the heritage languages and cultures.
Language learning requires retraining your brain and any form of training requires focus, constant practice and especially support. This durable and handy support tool can easily come with you anywhere for reference in an instant to review or use while practicing speaking with others. In 6 laminated pages the coverage is so succinct that our ......
Students and travelers can instantly create hundreds of useful phrases for conversation in Italian with this 6 page laminated guide that provides example template sentences and a color coded bank of words that can be plugged into those sentences. Grammar rules are included for quick reference to support sentence building along with hundreds of ......
