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Author: David Newby
Publisher: Council of Europe
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9287152705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReport of a workshop held in Graz, Austria on September 11, 2001
Author: Dieter Buttjes
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781853590702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - most recently with "communicative language teaching" - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a foreign language is both necessary and desirable. Languages and cultures are interlinked and interdependent and their teaching and learning should be too. Learning another language is part of a complex process of learning and understanding other people's ways of life, ways of thinking and socio-economic experience
Author: Geneviève Zarate
Publisher: Council of Europe
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9789287152602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karlfried Knapp
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009-12-15
Total Pages: 752
ISBN-13: 3110214245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume focuses on how far the policies, principles and practices of foreign language teaching and learning are, or can be, informed by theoretical considerations and empirical findings from the linguistic disciplines. Part I deals with the nature of foreign language learning in general, while Part II explores issues arising from linguistic, socio-political, cultural and cognitive perspectives. Part III and IV then consider the different factors that have to be taken into account in designing the foreign language subject and the various approaches to pedagogy that have been proposed. Part V finally addresses questions concerning assessment of learner proficiency and the evaluation of courses designed to promote it. Key features: provides a state-of-the-art description of different areas in the context of foreign language communication and learning presents a critical appraisal of the relevance of the field offers solutions to everyday language-related problems with contributions from renowned experts
Author: Michelle Kohler
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1783093064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book uses examples of classroom interaction to reveal how teachers of languages act as intercultural mediators and the implications of this for practice. The book offers an account of what teachers are thinking, feeling and doing as they enact an intercultural perspective on language teaching and learning.
Author: Julia Isabel Hüttner
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1847695248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together articles written by experts in the thriving field of language teacher education from a variety of geographical and institutional contexts, with a particular focus on EFL.
Author: Antoinette Camilleri
Publisher: Council of Europe
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9287152748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a reflective account of the work of the European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz, during its first medium-term programme, which lasted from 2000 to 2003.It presents some of the major current issues in language education that were dealt with during this programme and provides insight into the way the projects run by the ECML tried to address these issues and to develop practical, usable approaches to dealing with them.
Author: Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan
Publisher:
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0359663435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers in this special issue: (1-32) The meaning of 'because' on a Gricean view, by Valandis BARDZOKAS; (33-50) A jurilinguistic analysis of selected libel cases in Nigeria, by Wasiu Ademola OYEDOKUN-ALLI & Joel Kehinde BABATOPE; (51-68) Mass generics in L3 English: Acquisition route and transfer recovery, by Abdelkader HERMAS; (69-90) The variations and changes of Portuguese in postcolonial Timor-Leste, by Nuno Carlos de ALMEIDA & Davi Borges de ALBUQUERQUE (91-108) The web as corpus in ESL classes: A case study, by Patrizia GIAMPIERI; (109-120) Clearing the mist: The border between linguistic politeness and social etiquette, by Mohammad Ali SALMANI NODOUSHAN; (121-128) Book Review, by Stuart FOSTER; (129-134) Book Review, by Azizeh CHALAK
Author: Eija Ventola
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9027232067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume sign posts several paths of multimodality research and theory-building today. The chapters represent a cross-section of current perspectives on multimodal discourse with a special focus on theoretical and methodological issues (mode hierarchies, modelling semiotic resources as multiple semiotic systems, multimodal corpus annotation). In addition, it discusses a wide range of applications for multimodal description in fields like mathematics, entertainment, education, museum design, medicine and translation.
Author: Inês David
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015-06-18
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1443879347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection adds to the growing body of research on lifestyle migration with empirically grounded explorations focusing on a wide range of practices involved in living 'the good life'. The volume brings together a variety of socio-geographical contexts-from Swedish 'lifestyle movers' in Malta, retired Britons and Germans in Spain, and seekers of the 'rural idyll' in the Iberian Peninsula, to expats in Nepal, North Americans in Ecuador and 'utopian' lifestyle migrants in Patagonia-t ...
