Teaching Foreign Languages
Teaching Foreign Languages

Author: Georgeta Raţă

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2010-08-11

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1443824437

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Teaching Foreign Languages: Languages for Special Purposes is a collection of essays which will appeal to teachers of modern languages no matter the level of instruction. The essays deal with three main approaches of the teaching of languages for special purposes in Europe, Asia and Africa: theoretical linguistics (lexis: French vocabulary; and semantics: French copulative verbs); descriptive linguistics (compared linguistics: English – Romanian, English – Serbian, French – Romanian, French – Serbian, and German – Macedonian); and applied linguistics (language acquisition: English in Romania and Spanish in Serbia; language education: Arabic in Italy, English in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Iran, Malaysia, Russia, Serbia, and the United Arab Emirates; German in Serbia; lexicography: English, French, Romanian, Ruthenian and Serbian; stylistics: English, French and Spanish; and translation: English, Italian and Romanian).

Attitudes towards English in Europe
Attitudes towards English in Europe

Author: Andrew Linn

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-07-24

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1614515514

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The status of English in Europe is changing, and this book offers a series of studies of attitudes to English today. Until recently English was often seen as an opportunity for Europeans to take part in the global market, but increasingly English is viewed as a threat to the national languages of Europe, and the idea that Europeans are equally at home in English is being challenged. This book will appeal to anyone interested in global English.

Greek Outside Greece
Greek Outside Greece

Author: Maria Roussou

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780951671702

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From the preface by His Eminence Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain - Greek emigration has been a phenomenon as ancient, as varied and as interesting as the Greeks themselves. Its causes, as well as its results, have kept both historians and linguists heavily occupied in investigating it since Homer decided to explore its implications in his two magnificent and unparalleled epics.

Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics
Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics

Author: British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting

Publisher: Jacqui Small

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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Language, Culture and Identity is a collection of papers from the BAAL Annual Conference at the University of Bristol 2005. The thirteen papers, by researchers from Britain and across Europe, represent a range of research orientations within Applied Linguistics that connect in different ways with issues in culture and identity. Two plenary addresses from the conference, by Roz Ivanic and Srikant Sarangi, explore the themes of identity and culture in contexts of learning and of work. Papers addressing language planning and policy issues present recent analyses of francophone identity in Canada and Sami identity in Finland. The issues of culture and identity in writing are explored in different papers from the perspective of identity construction in academic writing, discipline cultures in higher education contexts, the consequences of these for interdisciplinary writers, and how writers construct audience identity though the linguistic choices they make. Empirical studies of language learning and teaching are also represented, with papers on Processing Instruction and Intercultural Pragmatics. The themes of identity and culture in these papers connect a range of sub-disciplines within Applied Linguistics, and also connect knowledge building in Applied Linguistics with pervasive themes in research across the social sciences, into the ways people as individuals and in communities understand, shape and represent their experiences of learning and work.