Foreign Language Study

This collection focuses on social awareness and critical language awareness with the goal of enlightening and empowering multilingual and multicultural communities across the U.S. This volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and educators in...

This collection spotlights the authentic voices of plurilingual learners, bringing together autoethnographies of over twenty graduate students toward deepening current understandings of lived experiences of plurilingualism. The volume begins with...

This is a systematic study of Matteo Ricci's (1552-610) enormous impact on the development of modern scientific and intellectual terminology in China. Taking the Sino-estern cultural exchanges initiated by Western Jesuit missionaries in the late-ing...

What is it about social interaction at the workplace that spurs interactional competence development? This book explores the answers to this question by analyzing the development of interactional competence by two Vietnamese hotel staff members, one...

The Romance languages offer unique potential for empirical analysis and methodological innovation within the vast field of linguistics, due to the survival of a large body of historical documentation, the rich diversity of dialects and languages, and the...

The linguistic study of the Slavic language family, with its rich syntactic and phonological structures, complex writing systems, and diverse socio-historical context, is a rapidly growing research area. Bringing together contributions from an...

As the second volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book investigates a wide range of linguistic phenomena in Chinese and other languages to substantiate the verbs-as-nouns theory proposed by the author.Author: Shen...

Beginning Korean is a Korean language textbook for use at the high school and college levels, involving characters who speak and interact in Korean using beginner-to-intermediate-level expressions, vocabulary, and grammar. The book contains a rich...

Exploring Modern Greek as a Second, Foreign, and Heritage Language considers the diverse educational contexts within which Modern Greek is taught and how these diverse contexts substantially alter the requirements for materials, teacher training, and...

Gramática española: Variación social presenta conceptos gramaticales claves de la lengua española a los alumnos intermedios y avanzados de una manera que enfatiza las conexiones entre lo social y lo lingüístico. Esta segunda edición ofrece varios puntos...

How to Augment Language Skills outlines ways in which translation technologies can be integrated into language learning and translator training.Author: HAO. YU, Pym AnthonyPublisher: RoutledgePublication Date: Aug 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Introduction to Korean as a Second Language introduces the basic linguistic make-up of Korean and provides basic knowledge of second language acquisition and up-to-date research on how Korean is learned by adult second language learners (L2 Korean...

Language and Creativity at Work: A Corpus-Assisted Model of Creative Workplace Discourse explores linguistic creativity at work as well as the role of language in creative processes in the workplace. Using a mixed-methods approach involving corpus...

Looking at everyday Mandarin Chinese conversations, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the practices used in producing Chinese increments. Increments have been identified as a key nexus that evinces how human interactional practices are...

Of Mind and Machine provides a broad perspective on multi-level dialogic engagements between text and reader as seen from the use of language in presenting information to generate a discursive experience in various sociocultural settings. The book...

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample...

Serving as a pioneering work, this volume offers a systematic and comprehensive exploration of the integration between audio description (AD) and interpreting studies. It not only sheds new light on the emerging field of AD research, but also enriches...

This book offers an illuminating exploration into the complex world of political communication in South Korea from 2016 to 2021, shedding light on its underlying rhetoric, strategy, and power dynamics. An indispensable resource for scholars in the fields...

This book provides comprehensive guidelines on important aspects of isiXhosa orthography such as word division, spelling and capitalisation. Authors' primary focus has been those challenging areas of standardisation which have not yet been attended to...

This collection explores topical and current issues in indigenous African language literature of South Africa. These include narratological elements of literature, language usage, poetry analysis, and song lyrics. Each scholar presents findings that are...

This innovative guidebook is an accessible and concise introduction to discipline-specific academic language. Using authentic texts written by both novice and expert writers and 'translating' current, corpus-based research of academic language into a...

Two English-Language Translators of Jin Ping Mei examines English translations of the Ming novel Jin Ping Mei by translators from different historical periods within the Anglophone world. Drawing upon theoretical insights from translation studies,...

Español académico esencial es una guía práctica para todas aquellas personas que necesiten expresarse con corrección, por escrito u oralmente, en el contexto académico. El libro ofrece más de 1000 estructuras y fórmulas lingüísticas y comunicativas...

Introducción a la literatura hispanofilipina ofrece panorámica sobre la literatura en español producida en Filipinas. Introducción a la literatura hispanofilipina, Primer libro de este tipo escrito en el siglo XXI, reúne un solo volumen el conocimiento...

La enseñanza del español mediada por tecnología ofrece una nutrida panorámica de la investigación actual y de las estrategias didácticas sobre la integración de la tecnología en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje del español. Estructurado en trece capítulos...

Modern Persian, Elementary Level is a cutting-edge elementary Persian language textbook intended for two consecutive semesters. With contemporary real-world topics, high-frequency structures and vocabulary, a multitude of engaging speaking activities in...

Routledge Handbook of East Asian Translation showcases new research and developments in translation studies within the East Asian context. This Handbook draws attention to the diversity of scholarship on translation in East Asia, and its relevance to a...

The Routledge Handbook of German Language Teaching evaluates and addresses multifaceted, multilevel needs of students and teachers within teaching German as a foreign, as well as a second, language through taking a transcultural approach. Each...

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration explores the practices and attitudes surrounding migration and translation, aiming to redefine these two terms in light of their intersections and connections. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary and...

The Routledge Handbook of Multiliteracies for Spanish Language Teaching: multimodalidad e interdisciplinariedad proporciona una descripción integral y actualizada de los principales fundamentos teóricos, curriculares y pedagógicos para implementar e...