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This book is intended to make up-to-date information and opinion about Francophonie accessible to English-speaking readers, and to assess how well the international movement of French-speaking nations is placed to face the future. Students of French, international relations and sociolinguistics will find the book valuable.

This book is a longitudinal study of how children learn to use more than one language which addresses bilingual language development within families. It aims to examine how young children become bilingual, and to show what factors predict early childhood bilingualism.

Rising recognition of semantic and pragmatic disabilities in children with specific language impairment has created a demand for a satisfactory framework and suitable methods for assessment and remediation. This book reports on progress in research and practice in a form accessible to professionals from a variety of backgrounds.

This book deals with the acquisition of understanding of foreign cultures and peoples. It is also a study of the philosophy and purpose of language teaching in all its facets, in the context of foreign language teaching in secondary education. It attempts to raise awareness of the full educational value of foreign language learning.

This book brings together a selection of Professor Fishman's writings on language and ethnicity in minority perspective. Joshua Fishman's well-known dedication to worldwide cultural democracy and cultural pluralism shines through all of these selections and unifies them philosophically as well as scientifically.

This is the first comprehensive book-level examination of the relationship between tourism and climate change, of interest not only to students of tourism but to policy makers and the industry who will have to respond to the challenges posed.

This is the first book to exclusively address tourism and indigenous peoples in the circumpolar North. It examines how tourism in indigenous communities is influenced by academic and political discourses and how communities are influenced by tourism. The volume seeks to challenge stereotypical understandings of indigenousness and indigeneity.

This book explores the realities of feminist EFL teachers' lives through interviews and classroom observations with eight EFL teachers at Japanese universities. The data contained in the book broaden our understanding of feminist teaching in the language classroom while also providing suggestions for practice.

This book explores the immense potential of translanguaging in various educational settings and language contexts and considers the need for pedagogy to reflect and embrace diversity. Chapters provide rich empirical research and document teachers and students negotiating language ideologies in their everyday communicative practices.

This book explores the immense potential of translanguaging in various educational settings and language contexts and considers the need for pedagogy to reflect and embrace diversity. Chapters provide rich empirical research and document teachers and students negotiating language ideologies in their everyday communicative practices.

This volume examines how foreign language learners and teachers think about citizenship and interculturality. It presents a new theory of intercultural citizenship and demonstrates how it can be fostered in practice. It describes how teachers in schools and universities can work together across continents to develop new curricula and pedagogy.

This book introduces an innovative collection of easy-to-use computer programs that have been developed to measure and model vocabulary knowledge. It aims to help second language acquisition researchers explore some new instruments for L2 vocabulary research, providing examples of how the tools might be used in real research projects.

This book explores theories in positive psychology and their implications for language teaching, learning and communication. Chapters examine the characteristics of individuals, contexts and relationships that facilitate learning and present several new teaching ideas to develop and support them.

This book addresses issues of authenticity and interaction in second language contexts from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Contributions focus on authenticity as it relates to patterns of language and meaning, and to agency, identity and culture, and examines authenticity in both classroom and study abroad situations.

This volume focuses on the everyday legalities and practicalities of naturalization, bringing together scholars from a wide range of specialities all accentuating language. The book raises issues that often remain unarticulated or masked in the media and will be of interest to scholars of policy and politics as well as linguists.

This book investigates the way localities are shaped and negotiated through tourism, and explores the emerging success of local peer-produced hospitality and tourism services which are transforming the tourist experience. It examines the rapidly developing field of peer-to-peer tourism and the way it is changing tourist destinations.

This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds new light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area's shifting linguistic landscape.

Through case studies of language practices in spaces understood as inherently translocal and multi-layered (classrooms and schools, youth spaces, mercantile spaces and nation-states), this book explores the relevance of superdiversity for the social and human sciences and positions it as a research perspective in sociolinguistics and beyond.

This book offers a discussion of theoretical and methodological issues concerning the pivotal role of working memory in second language learning and processing. It includes theoretical chapters, empirical studies providing original data and new insights into the topic, and commentary chapters which chart the course for future research.

This book offers a discussion of theoretical and methodological issues concerning the pivotal role of working memory in second language learning and processing. It includes theoretical chapters, empirical studies providing original data and new insights into the topic, and commentary chapters which chart the course for future research.

This book explores the difference between languages that children learn in the home and the languages valued by society and established as the medium of instruction in schools is an almost universal problem in educational systems. In this book, researchers discuss practice and theory in various parts of the world.

This book analyses policy issues regarding the education of minority students in western industrialised societies and presents a number of case studies of programs that have been successful in reversing the pattern of minority students' academic failure.

The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together.

This book deals with individual bilingualism, societal and educational phenomena and addressing issues such as bilingual usage, acquisition, teaching, and language planning and policy. The volume's major asset lies in its diversity of topics and in the range of languages and geographical regions covered.

This book is an anthology of articles on teaching English to speakers of other languages. The emphasis is on practical concerns of classroom procedures and on the cross-cultural aspects of teaching English around the world. Several of the articles focus on communicative language teaching.

The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a foreign language is both necessary and desirable. Languages and cultures are interlinked and interdependent and their teaching and learning should be too.

This book provides a case study of dual-language planning and implementation at a Spanish-English public elementary school program in Washington, DC. It demonstrates how this program provides more opportunities to language minority and language majority students than are traditionally available in mainstream US schools.

This book shows how translation is affected by pragmatic factors such as the acts performed by people when they use language. It is clearly of direct relevance to an understanding of translation and translators.

This book, featuring chapters from the foremost practitioners in the field of modern languages, closely examines research-based analysis, structural contexts and classroom practice in teaching and learning. It provides much needed fresh thinking on methodology and pedagogy.

Bilingualism is a reality that many Americans still find difficult to accept; hence the prominence of English-only activism in U.S. politics. This collection of essays analyzes the sources of the anti-bilingual movement, its changing directions, and its impact on education policy. The book also explores efforts to resist the English-only trend.