Applied Linguistics

Adolescent Second Language Learning and Multilingualism (e-book)

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

This is the first book dedicated exclusively to presenting the current state of scholarship on multilingual development and language use among adolescents. Drawing upon the fast-growing interdisciplinary field of youth studies, the book provides a detailed examination of the linguistic, cognitive, and literacy development of multilingual teenagers in home, school, community, and global contexts.

Adolescent Second Language Learning and Multilingualism

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

This is the first book dedicated exclusively to presenting the current state of scholarship on multilingual development and language use among adolescents. Drawing upon the fast-growing interdisciplinary field of youth studies, the book provides a detailed examination of the linguistic, cognitive, and literacy development of multilingual teenagers in home, school, community, and global contexts.

The Struggle to teach English as an International Language e-book

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Adrian Holliday

This book is about the worlds and conflicts of TESOL teachers and researchers whose professional lives are both enriched and problematized by the cultural and political interfaces created by working with an international language. Central to this discussion is the balance of power in classroom and curriculum settings, the relationship between language, culture, and discourse, and the change in the ownership of English.

English is the main language of international communication, and almost everyone wants to learn it. But which English should we teach, and how?
In this book, Sandra Lee McKay challenges the cultural assumptions underlying much of the English teaching currently taking place. She looks at the implications of the spread of English as an international language for what we teach and how we teach it.

The Struggle to teach English as an International Language e-Book for Kindle

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Adrian Holliday

Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning e-book

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James P. Lantolf

This book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted into the learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective.
Topics covered include: learning and teaching languages in the zone of proximal development; L1 mediation in the acquisition of L2 grammar and sociocultural theory as a theory of second language learning.

Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning e-Book for Kindle

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James P. Lantolf

The Multilingual Subject e-book for Kindle

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Claire Kramsch

Understanding English as a Lingua Franca e-book for Kindle

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Barbara Seidlhofer

The Multilingual Subject e-book

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Claire Kramsch

This book explores the subjective aspects of language learning, skillfully integrating multiple levels of analysis, and bridging the gap between theory and practice. It analyzes data gathered from published testimonies and language memoirs of former language learners, spoken and written data from American college language learners, and online data from language learners in electronic chatrooms and text messaging exchanges. The author encourages readers to consider foreign language learning from new, diverse, and unique perspectives.

Understanding English as a Lingua Franca e-book

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Barbara Seidlhofer

A clear explanation of the theories and principles underlying English as a Lingua Franca studies and how they relate to other areas of research.

The number of English speakers in the world continues to grow, but the vast majority are non-native speakers using English to communicate with each other, rather than with native speakers.

This book examines the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) from various perspectives. It explores the various ways in which ELF represents a challenge to the predominance of the native-speaker model, as well as its implications for other fields of linguistic research and for English language teaching.