Cultural Conceptualizations in Language and Communication

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• The book comprises a selection of papers concerning the general theme of cultural conceptualizations in language. The focus of Part 1, which includes ... Lees meer

Memory, Identity and Cognition: Explorations in Culture and Communication

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching | Issues in Literature and Culture
• The book analyses a variety of topics and current issues in linguistics and literary studies, focusing especially on such aspects as memory, identity ... Lees meer

Language Use, Education, and Professional Contexts

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• This present book addresses language and its diverse forms in an array of professional and practical contexts. Besides discussing the intricacies of s... Lees meer

New Media and Perennial Problems in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• The book concerns the ways in which the new media shape communication along with educational expectations and practices in foreign language classrooms... Lees meer

Production-Oriented and Comprehension-Based Grammar Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom

Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak, Miroslaw Pawlak

• Paperback | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• The book addresses one of the key controversies in teaching foreign language grammar, which is the utility of production-oriented instruction, as exem... Lees meer

Language Learning, Discourse and Communication

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• This volume brings together papers on a wide spectrum of topics within the broad area of language acquisition, stressing the interconnections between ... Lees meer

Evaluation in Foreign Language Education in the Middle East and North Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• This book presents evaluation cases from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) context, investigating the various facets of evaluation in different ... Lees meer

Language in Educational and Cultural Perspectives

• Paperback | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• This book comprises 20 chapters that have been divided into two distinct parts: language in educational contexts and language in cultural contexts. Th... Lees meer

Higher Order Thinking Skills in the Language Classroom: A Concise Guide

Afsaneh Ghanizadeh, Ali H Al-Hoorie, Safoura Jahedizadeh

• Paperback | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• In this book, we try to provide a practical, down-to-earth guide for those who are involved in language learning and teaching. We hope that this book ... Lees meer

Classroom-Oriented Research

• Paperback | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• This collection gathers contributions from scholars from Poland and abroad addressing different facets of research into the processes of foreign-langu... Lees meer

McLuhan's Galaxies: Science Fiction Film Aesthetics in Light of Marshall McLuhan's Thought

Artur Skweres

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching | Issues in Literature and Culture
• This groundbreaking book uses observations made by Marshall McLuhan to analyze the aesthetics of science fiction films, treating them as visual metaph... Lees meer

Second Language Learning Motivation in a European Context: The Case of Hungary

Kata Csizér

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• This book provides an overview of second language (L2) motivation research in a specific European context: Hungary, which has proved to offer an impor... Lees meer

The Role of Language Teacher Associations in Professional Development

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• Providing a timely and much-needed resource on LTAs, the book helps readers recognize the importance and nature of teachers' professional development,... Lees meer

Challenges of Second and Foreign Language Education in a Globalized World

• Paperback | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• This edited collection brings together papers by eminent scholars who attempt to demonstrate how challenges can most successfully be ameliorated with ... Lees meer

Teaching and Researching the Pronunciation of English

• Paperback | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• The book contains contributions from practitioners and theoreticians who explore the pronunciation of English from various perspectives: phonetic, pho... Lees meer

Homo Ludens as a Comic Character in Selected American Films

Artur Skweres

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching | Issues in Literature and Culture
• This book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expanding the theories develope... Lees meer

Alice Munro

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching | Issues in Literature and Culture
• The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction. Its innovative quality consists in juxtaposing a variety of literary analyses of... Lees meer

Modern Approaches to Researching Multilingualism

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• The volume offers a collection of the most recent research coming from scholars and practitioners in the field of multilingualism research in various ... Lees meer

Ernest Hemingway in Interview and Translation

Miroslawa Buchholtz, Dorota Guttfeld

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching | Issues in Literature and Culture
• Chapter I: Interviewing Hemingway.Chapter II: Translator as Interviewer.Chapter III: Hemingway in Translation. Lees meer

Investigating Foreign Language Anxiety

Katalin Piniel

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• The introduction and a theoretical summary of language anxiety research (Chapter 1) are followed by four chapters: Chapter 2 presents a meta-analysis ... Lees meer

Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914-18)

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching | Issues in Literature and Culture
• This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War. It begins by asking what exactly was so "Great" about it, before turning to... Lees meer

Investigating Dynamic Relationships Among Individual Difference Variables in Learning English as a Foreign Language in a Virtual World

Mariusz Kruk

• Paperback | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• 1. ​The constructs of willingness to communicate, motivation, boredom and language anxiety: Overview of selected issues.- 2. Empirical investigations ... Lees meer

Exploring the Interface Between Individual Difference Variables and the Knowledge of Second Language Grammar

Miroslaw Pawlak

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• The last few decades have seen extensive research focusing of the relative effectiveness of different instructional options that can be employed in te... Lees meer

Aspects of Culture in Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Learning

• Hardcover | Engels | Second Language Learning and Teaching
• In recent years language learning has been increasingly viewed by some SLA researchers as an essentially social-psychological process in which the rol... Lees meer