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Research Anthology on Applied Linguistics and Language Practices

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Research Anthology on Applied Linguistics and Language Practices

Research Anthology on Applied Linguistics and Language Practices
by Information Resources Management Association
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1668456826 | 1714 Pages | True PDF | 42 MB

Applied Linguistics Research and Good Practices for Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms

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Applied Linguistics Research and Good Practices for Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms

Applied Linguistics Research and Good Practices for Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms
Isaak Papadopoulos, Smaragda Papadopoulou
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1536196118 | 226 Pages | True PDF | 12 MB

International Current Trends in Applied Linguistics and Pedagogy

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International Current Trends in Applied Linguistics and Pedagogy

International Current Trends in Applied Linguistics and Pedagogy
Isaak Papadopoulos, Sorina Chiper
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1685077587 | 270 Pages | True PDF | 6.14 MB

Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics

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Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics

Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics by Annalisa Baicchi, Cristiano Broccias
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 263 Pages | ISBN : 3031466012 | 6.6 MB

This book approaches the field of contrastive linguistics from a comparative and robust perspective that combines the tenets of construction grammar and cognitive linguistics. In doing so, it shows how their integration can help to successfully enhance research on contrastivity, by means of updated theoretical frameworks and applied methodologies that combine language and thought. It compares ten different languages and offers analyses of constructions at all levels of the linguistic organization, identifying the cognitive motivations that instantiate the linguistic data retrieved from corpora. Relevant to both cognitive and non-cognitive linguists interested in variation and contrastive approaches, as well as graduate students in these areas, this book makes a significant contribution to existing work on the various types of constructional and discourse-based phenomena in modern languages.

An MT-Oriented Study of Corresponding Lexical Chunks in Business Correspondences from English to Chinese

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An MT-Oriented Study of Corresponding Lexical Chunks in Business Correspondences from English to Chinese

An MT-Oriented Study of Corresponding Lexical Chunks in Business Correspondences from English to Chinese by Fumao Hu
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 163 Pages | ISBN : 9819949769 | 4.3 MB

This book sheds new light on chunk in business correspondence in order to promote the advancement of machine translation. By presenting a bilingual chunk table for correspondence and providing basic theoretical and empirical data on the construction of an MT-based English-Chinese chunk bank for business correspondence, it seeks to improve the accuracy of machine translation systems in a new way. It mainly addresses two questions: (1) How can business English correspondence chunks be defined in machine translation? (2) What are the correspondences between English-Chinese business letter chunks for machine translation?

Code-switching in Bilingual Children

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Code-switching in Bilingual Children

Code-switching in Bilingual Children by Katja F. Cantone
English | PDF (True) | 2007 | 288 Pages | ISBN : 1402057830 | 3.1 MB

This study investigates the issue of code-switching in young bilingual children, in particular, intra-sentential switches, that is, mixing within an utterance. The data come from five bilingual Italian/German ch- dren (age 1;8 to 5 years), who grew up in Hamburg, Germany. The term bilingual is used in order to describe a person who has been exposed to both languages from birth on (Meisel 1989:20). Hence, this work is placed within the research field of Bilingual First Language Acquisition. The present book discusses three main issues. The first assumption concerns language mixing in young bilingual children. Differently from former studies on mixing in children, I claim that bilingual children’s mixed utterances should be analyzed in the same way as adult mixing. I further argue that child grammar is organized in the same way as adult grammar.

Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives

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Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives

Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives by Larissa Semiramis Schedel, Cori Jakubiak
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 306 Pages | ISBN : 3031408128 | 6.4 MB

This edited volume extends current voluntourism theorizing by critically examining the intersections among various forms of work-leisure travel and language learning/teaching. The book’s contributors investigate volunteer tourism and its cognates such as working holidaymaking, international internships, and gap year labor, as discursive fields in which powerful ideas about language(s), their speakers, and pedagogical practices are propagated worldwide. The various authors’ chapters shed light on the hegemony of global English, the social consequences of linguistic commodification and neoliberal rationalities, the ways in which speaker identity positions can alter the exchange value of languages, and how language competencies are tied to power in the labor market, among related topics. This volume will be of interest to readers in Applied Linguistics, Critical Sociolinguistics, Educational and Linguistic Anthropology, Tourism and Leisure Studies, Migration and Mobility Studies, and Language Teaching and Learning.

Unauthorized Outlooks on Second Languages Education and Policies: Voices from Colombia

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Unauthorized Outlooks on Second Languages Education and Policies: Voices from Colombia

Unauthorized Outlooks on Second Languages Education and Policies: Voices from Colombia by Carmen Helena Guerrero-Nieto
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 243 Pages | ISBN : 3031450507 | 5.8 MB

This edited book presents a critical vision of language and education policies and practices in Colombia, examining neoliberal perspectives which influence the promotion of English at all levels in the Colombian educational system. Some of the chapters emphasize questions of language teacher recognition and empowerment, while others focus on both teachers and students’ visions of national policies, particularly with regard to colonial and Eurocentric discourses and subsequent discriminatory practices. The volume throws light on recent language and education policies and practices in a South American country where much current research in this area is published in Spanish but not in English, and it gives visibility to voices that are often missing from the global conversation around English language teaching (ELT). Making these voices heard is part of a decolonial project that gives legitimacy to "unauthorized outlooks", embodies knowledge, and focuses on presenting alternatives to second language teaching-learning and research practices from the Global North ontoepistemology. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of ELT, Language Policies and Planning, Applied Linguistics, and Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies. It also has international appeal, as its localized gaze can bring about important considerations regarding other local knowledges.

Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900: Transnational Practices of Mediation and the Case of Käthe Schirmacher

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Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900: Transnational Practices of Mediation and the Case of Käthe Schirmacher

Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900: Transnational Practices of Mediation and the Case of Käthe Schirmacher by Johanna Gehmacher
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 359 Pages | ISBN : 3031427629 | 15 MB

This book takes the biographical case of German feminist Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious activist to examine the travel and translation of ideas between the women’s movements that emerged in many countries in the late 19th and early 20th century. It discusses practices such as translating, interpreting, and excerpting from journals and books that spawned and supported transnational civic spaces and develops a theoretical framework to analyse these practices. It examines translations of literary, scholarly and political texts and their contexts. The book will be of interest to academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of modern history, women’s and gender history, cultural studies, transnational and transfer history, translation studies, history and theory of biography.

An Ethno-Social Approach to Code Choice in Bilinguals Living with Alzheimer’s

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An Ethno-Social Approach to Code Choice in Bilinguals Living with Alzheimer’s

An Ethno-Social Approach to Code Choice in Bilinguals Living with Alzheimer’s: “In English or in Spanish? I Speak Both Languages.” by Carolin Schneider
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 267 Pages | ISBN : 3031464826 | 9.9 MB

​This book examines the under-researched field of communication by bilingual people with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT). The aging population is increasingly affected by neurocognitive diseases such as DAT, and over the past 30 years, the growing research body concerned with monolingual DAT discourses has seen significant growth. The findings from monolingual studies and institutional settings highlight the importance of code choice for a person’s sense of autonomy, especially against the background of changing communicational abilities. Adding a new perspective, this book investigates how ten Puerto Rican speakers living with varying stages of DAT draw on their bilingual resources to accomplish verbal interaction in informal settings with their primary care partners. Drawing on narrative interviews conducted in Orlando, Florida, this multi-case study investigates situated language choices and code-switches by applying the ethno-social approach, i.e. combining features of conversation analysis and ethnography of communication. The author sheds light both on the question of how people living with DAT engage in conversations and which strategies they employ in their languages (English and Spanish) to reach their communicative goals. Specifically, by analyzing the role of code choice and code-switching in a qualitative manner, two main functional categories emerge: discourse-related and participant-related code-switching. Bilingual competencies remain even among participants living with severe DAT symptoms, as evident in retained interactional sequences such as salutations. Persons living with DAT competently negotiate code, either through exploratory code-switching or metalinguistic commentary, emphasizing the need for conversational partners to be sensitive to the communicative needs, in both languages, of speakers living with DAT. This book will be of interest to students and researchers working on dementia discourses, health communication, multilingualism and ageing, as well as Bilingual/ Multilingual families or individuals living with dementia.

Teaching Chinese Language in the International School Context

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Teaching Chinese Language in the International School Context

Teaching Chinese Language in the International School Context by Jia-Fei Hong, Chung-Mou SI
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 218 Pages | ISBN : 9819963753 | 4.9 MB

This book explores the learning and teaching of K-12 Chinese language in international schools. The authors of this book are scholars from teaching training institutions and universities, as well as professional frontline teachers. With a combination of the works and insights from both perspectives of theory and practice, the book presents how theories of teaching can be operated in classroom to improve the effectiveness of language teaching. It covers curriculum setting, design of teaching materials, teaching principles, methods, strategies, and evaluation. The book also discusses issues and concepts such as concept-driven learning, identity change and recognition of L1 and L2 Chinese teacher, pinyin teaching, Chinese character teaching, evaluation for learning improvement, and integration of South Asian non-Chinese speaking students into local schools. It emphasizes empirical action research methods. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing high value insights to scholars from university and teacher training institutions and teachers from kindergartens, primary, and secondary schools around the world.

Hate Speech in Social Media: Linguistic Approaches

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Hate Speech in Social Media: Linguistic Approaches

Hate Speech in Social Media: Linguistic Approaches by Isabel Ermida
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 450 Pages | ISBN : 3031382471 | 19.5 MB

This edited book offers insight into the linguistic construction of prejudice and discrimination in social media. Drawing on the outputs of a three-year research project, NETLANG, involving scholars from five European countries (Portugal, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland and Poland), as well as on external contributions from participants in the project’s final conference, the collection brings together a variety of linguistic approaches to the study of online hate speech, ranging from Pragmatics to Syntax, Lexis, Stylistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Corpus Linguistics. Data from English, Portuguese, Danish, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, and Slovenian are examined, along with various geopolitical contexts for hate speech, especially anti-refugee and anti-immigrant discourse. The authors explore a continuum of overt to covert textual data, namely: (i) structural elements, such as syntactic and morphological patterns found to recur throughout the texts; (ii) lexical and stylistic elements, revealing the often implicit ways vocabulary choices and rhetorical devices signal the expression of hate; and (iii) interactional elements, concerning the pragmatic relationships established in online communicative exchanges. The chapters cover numerous types of prejudice, such as sexism, nationalism, racism, antisemitism, religious intolerance, ageism, and homo/transphobia. The book will be of interest to an academic readership in Linguistics, Media Studies, Communication Studies, and Social Sciences.

Intercultural Competence and Pragmatics

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Intercultural Competence and Pragmatics

Intercultural Competence and Pragmatics by Gila A. Schauer
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 168 Pages | ISBN : 303144471X | 9.8 MB

This book examines the link between intercultural competence (IC) and pragmatics by asking frontline modern foreign language teachers in higher education teaching a variety of languages (e.g., Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish) how they conceptualise intercultural competence and which skills, competences and knowledge they consider important in their teaching contexts. The data were collected with an online survey that focused on the relationship between intercultural competence and pragmatics.

Think-Aloud Protocols in Second Language Writing: A Mixed-Methods Study of Their Reactivity and Veridicality

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Think-Aloud Protocols in Second Language Writing: A Mixed-Methods Study of Their Reactivity and Veridicality

Think-Aloud Protocols in Second Language Writing: A Mixed-Methods Study of Their Reactivity and Veridicality by Chengsong Yang , Lawrence Jun Zhang
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 233 Pages | ISBN : 3031395735 | 6.5 MB

This book addresses the validity of think-aloud protocols (TAPs) in L2 writing research through a mixed methods study and proposes effective approaches for their valid implementation. The book uncovers the reactive effects that TAPs have on L2 writing performance and processes, and examines how individual factors moderate this reactivity. It further presents and categorizes participants' perceptions regarding reactivity and veridicality. To enhance veridicality, the book identifies incomplete TAPs using retrospective verbal reports as a reference point. Recommendations for utilizing TAPs include considering participants' individual differences, recent experiences, and emotions.

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Policy Discourses and the Illusion of Best Practice

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Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Policy Discourses and the Illusion of Best Practice

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Policy Discourses and the Illusion of Best Practice by Sarah Horrod
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 249 Pages | ISBN : 3031280377 | 5.7 MB

This book explores the discourses in learning and teaching policy in UK higher education, traces how these ideas are recontextualised at institutional level and reveals the differences between policy discourses and lecturers’ and students’ experiences. The author argues that policy ideas around learning and teaching are not simply value-free ‘best practice’ but reflect the socio-political context of higher education. The study uses an innovative conceptual framework of critical discourse studies (CDS) and Bernstein’s sociology of pedagogy to provide critical lenses to uncover the underlying messages of policy. The book will interest a wide academic audience including anyone involved in higher education globally.