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This book evaluates a project where formal classroom learning of a second language was supplemented with informal, natural interactions with older native speakers of the target language, delivering a number of pedagogical and societal benefits. It introduces a model of language learning for students that can be used for any language or locality.

This book aims to further understanding of the acquisition of Chinese as a foreign or second language. The six independent studies, which focus on various aspects of the learning process from morphosyntax to pragmatics to peer interaction, offer empirical insights into learners under an array of instructional conditions.

This work explores how immigrant small business owners co-construct their theories of agency, in relation to language learning and use. It explores the constitution of language learner agency by drawing on performativity theory. It builds on the work of Vygotsky and Bakhtin along with research on 'agency of spaces' and language ideologies.

This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children's needs and interests above the individual languages involved. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today's world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.

This unique contribution to the field of sociolinguistics scrutinises language ideologies in a globalised world. Using ethnographic methodology and a deconstructive approach to language it examines German and Australian Communities of Practice constituted by Salsa dance, and asks what languages symbolise in transnational, non-ethnic cultures.

This volume explores the relationship between tourism and travel texts and contemporary society, and how each is shaped by the other. A multimodal analysis is used to look at a variety of texts including novels, travel brochures, blogs and videos.

This book provides the first examination of sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of native-like variability in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) context and presents data from email exchanges between Swiss speakers (with German, French and Italian mother tongues).

This book provides a systematic, country-by-country analysis of tourism policy, planning and organisation in the EU. It applies a conceptual framework to offer a new critical approach to comparative policy analysis in tourism in the EU.

Focusing on the use of African languages in higher education, this book showcases South African higher education practitioners' attempts to promote a multilingual ethos in their classes. It is an overview of multilingual teaching and learning strategies that have been tried and tested in a number of higher education institutions in South Africa.

Focusing on the use of African languages in higher education, this book showcases South African higher education practitioners' attempts to promote a multilingual ethos in their classes. It is an overview of multilingual teaching and learning strategies that have been tried and tested in a number of higher education institutions in South Africa.

This book presents a new way of understanding heritage tourism that focuses on what people feel and not just what they see. Traditionally, semiotics points to the study of signs and symbols, and how we use them to make sense of the world. Here semiotics is extended into our other senses as part of what it means to experience heritage as tourists.

This book explores the paradoxes of Self-Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life.

It is clearly illogical to search for one good, universal solution for multilingual education when educational contexts differ so widely due to demographic and social factors. The studies in this volume seek to investigate not only whether certain solutions and practices are 'good', but also when and for whom they make sense.

This book examines the development of intercultural bilingual education throughout Latin America, focusing on practices that preserve the cultural and linguistic diversity of Indigenous peoples. The contributors trace the trajectory of political and policy issues related to the implementation of intercultural bilingual education.

This book provides a contemporary approach to the study of bilingualism. Drawing on contributions from leading experts in the field, this book brings together - in a single volume - a selection of the exciting work conducted as part of the programme of the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice at Bangor University, Wales.

This textbook offers an introductory overview of eight hotly-debated topics in second language acquisition research. It offers a glimpse of how SLA researchers have tried to answer common questions about second language acquisition rather than being a comprehensive introduction to SLA research.

This book seeks to bring hybrid language practices to the center of discussions about English as a global language. It reveals how local linguistic resources and practices are involved in the refashioning of identities in a variety of cross-cultural and geographical contexts, and illustrates hybridity as an enactment of resistance and creativity.

Diversity (social, cultural, linguistic and ethnic) poses a challenge to educational systems. This book examines policy and its implications, pedagogical practice and responses to the challenge of diversity that go beyond the language of schooling. This volume will appeal to anyone involved in the educational integration of immigrant children.

This book uses a micro-analysis of language in and around Tanzanian beauty pageants to address structural inequalities, gender relations, globalization, as well as educational and language policy. The book paints a picture of how people on the global periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world.

This book aims to demystify the practices of scholarly publishing in English. It focuses on practices, institutions and politics rather than language and writing. Drawing on 10 years of research into academic publishing and writing practices, it provides a guide for readers to relate to their own contexts and situations as they consider publishing.

This book includes the work of specialists working in various educational contexts to create comprehensive coverage of current bilingual initiatives. Themes covered include issues in language use in classrooms; participant perspectives on bilingual education experiences; and the language needs of bi-/multilingual students in monolingual schools.

This volume draws together current research on dyslexia and literacy in multilingual settings across disciplines and methodologies. The contributors, all internationally recognised in the field, address developmental and acquired literacy difficulties and dyslexia in a range of language contexts including EAL/EFL.

This book synthesises current theory and research on L2 motivation in the EFL Japanese context covering topics such as the issues of cultural identity, demotivation, language communities, positive psychology, possible L2 selves and internationalisation within a key EFL context.

This book examines communicative practices in a high-tech firm in California's Silicon Valley, where employees come from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds and their practices are shaped by, and sometimes contest, local and global forces. It demonstrates the importance of accounting for multilingual practices in studies of multimodality.

This book closes the gap between theory and practice for teachers and researchers wishing to capitalize on learners' individuality in second or foreign language learning. Issues of content are targeted through a description of the variables of anxiety, beliefs, cognitive abilities, motivation, strategies, styles and willingness to communicate.

This book brings the voices of teachers into the debates about language ideologies and cultural pedagogies in English language teaching. Through interviews and classroom observations in Chile and California, this study compares the controversies around English as a global language with the similar cultural tensions in programs for immigrants.

This book brings together a variety of voices - including students and teachers, journal editors and authors - to interrogate the notion of risk in academic writing. Risk-taking is viewed as a productive force, and one that can be used to challenge the silences and erasures inherent in academic tradition and convention.

This book argues that a multilingual approach to higher education is imperative in an increasingly globalised education environment. This book addresses the need to acknowledge other languages explicitly in classroom instruction and in student learning to improve student success, to widen access and to internationalise institutions.

This book unravles the story English in post-revolutionary Iran. Situating it within the nation's broader social, political, economic and historical contexts, the book explores the politics, causes, and agents of the two diverging trends of indigenization/localization and internationalization/Anglo-Americanization in English education in Iran.

This book offers a unique view of multilingualism by presenting a contextualised case of a multilingual language policy which takes the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach. The volume opens with a general overview of multilingualism and multilingual education before focusing on the specific case study.