Browsing by Subject "Language"
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Language, thought, and reality : selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Learning the arts of linguistic survival : languaging, tourism, life
(Channel View Publications, 2007)This book will be essential reading for all those interested in tourism studies and in modern languages education. It is a timely study, coming at time of crisis in languages, as English exerts its power as a world language ... -
Legal translation explained
(Routledge, 2002)Focusing on the problems of translating English legal language, Alcaraz and Hughes offer a wide-ranging view of one of the most demanding and vital areas of contemporary translation practice. Individual chapters deal with ... -
Legal translation in context : professional issues and prospects
(Peter Lang, 2015)This volume offers a systematic overview of the diverse professional profiles within legal translation and the wide range of communicative situations in which legal translators play their roles as mediators. Contexts of ... -
Legal translation outsourced
(Oxford University Press, 2019)This book provides the only current reference on commercial legal translation performed outside institutions. Juliette Scott casts a critical eye on the practice as it now stands, offering an analysis of key risks and ... -
Materials development in language teaching
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)This book aims to help readers apply current theoretical principles and research findings to the practical realities of developing and exploiting classroom materials. The authors also suggest new ideas and directions in ... -
Practice in a second language : perspectives from applied linguistics and cognitive psychology
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)This volume of twelve original articles focuses on the topic, with attention to the four skill areas of reading, writing, listening and speaking. The contributors explore a number of questions including what kind of practice ... -
Principles of language learning and teaching : a course in second language acquisition
(Pearson, 2014)The sixth edition of Principles of Language Learning and Teaching offers new ways of viewing and teaching second language acquisition (SLA) based on the latest research. Providing a comprehensive overview of the theoretical ... -
Quantitative data analysis for language assessment. Volume I: Fundamental techniques
(Routledge, 2019)Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I: Fundamental Techniques is a resource book that presents the most fundamental techniques of quantitative data analysis in the field of language assessment. Each ... -
Quantitative data analysis for language assessment. Volume II: Advanced methods
(Routledge, 2020)Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume II: Advanced Methods demonstrates advanced quantitative techniques for language assessment. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach and taps into expertise ... -
Reading in a second language : moving from theory to practice
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)This volume, through a detailed treatment of the cognitive processes that support reading, explains how reading really works. It offers a thorough overview of important and current research, including first language research, ... -
Reference and computation : an essay in applied philosophy of language
(Cambridge University Press, 1990)This book deals with a major problem in the study of language: the problem of reference. The ease with which we refer to things in conversation is deceptive. Upon closer scrutiny, it turns out that we hardly ever tell each ... -
Second language distance learning and teaching : theoretical perspectives and didactic ergonomics
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Second language listening : theory and practice
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)This book combines up-to-date listening theory with case studies of actual pedagogical practice. The paperback edition combines up-to-date listening theory with case studies of actual pedagogical practice. As an essential ... -
Second language writing research : perspectives on the process of knowledge construction
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Second language writing systems
(Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2005)This book for the first time presents the effects of writing systems on second language reading and writing and on second language awareness, and provides a new platform for discussing bilingualism, biliteracy and writing systems. -
Sociolinguistic variation : theories, methods, and applications
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)Why does human language vary from one person, or one group, to another? In what ways does it vary? How do linguists go about studying variation in, say, the sound system or the sentence structure of a particular language? ... -
Sociolinguistics and language teaching
(Cambridge University Press, 1996)This text provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. This book provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. ... -
Stylistic approaches to translation
(Routledge, 2014)This book attempts to bring some coherence to a highly interdisciplinary area of translation studies, situating different views and approaches to style within general trends in linguistics and literary criticism and assessing ... -
Success with foreign languages : seven who achieved it and what worked for them
(Prentice Hall, 1989)
