Multilingual Matters Limited

This book highlights the roles of individual difference variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students' and the teachers' perspectives. The comparative analysis of...

This volume presents the results of the largest ever language attitude/motivation survey in second language studies. The research team gathered data from over 13,000 Hungarian language learners on...

With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive anthology of conceptual and empirical papers describing the latest developments in L2...

This collection of conceptual papers and data-based research studies investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The chapters seek to answer...

This book brings together work on communication disorders of child and adult users of signed languages. The chapters investigate linguistic impairments caused by deficits in visual processing and...

This book translates research into clinical practice for speech-language pathologists working with children. The book explores both multilingual and multicultural aspects of children with speech...

This book demonstrates the importance of raising multilingual children in the UK, both for the children's own benefit and for the benefit of society as a whole. Against the backdrop of both the rich...

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...

This book investigates language disorders in children who speak languages other than, or in addition to, English. The volume aims to stimulate thoughtful clinical practices and further research in...

This book focuses on individuals learning languages other than English in a range of under-researched Asian contexts. The chapters explore learners' motivational trajectories, multilingual identities...

This book lays out a radical new approach for teaching in multilingual classrooms: to include everyone, including those who already speak the school language, in multilingual pedagogy. The author...

This book explores research being carried out on linguistic practices among adolescents in multilingual urban Scandinavia. It analyses new linguistic practices, examines how these practices are...

This book presents the author's research into whether speaking multiple languages has a positive impact on an individual's creative potential. It examines how specific factors in multilingual...

This book explores how different European education systems manage multilingualism. Each chapter focuses on one of ten diverse settings and considers how its education system is influenced by...

Mathematics classrooms are increasingly multilingual, whether they are found in linguistically diverse societies, urban melting pots or planned bilingual programs. The chapters in this book present...

This book deals with the sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of established and new migrant minority groups in Spain. It discusses the three guiding analytical research approaches which cut...

This collection of papers brings together a diverse range of conceptualisations of the self in the domain of second language acquisition and foreign language learning. The volume attempts to unite a...

This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature of the English language. This book shares who they...

The relative status of native and non-native speaker language teachers within educational institutions has long been an issue worldwide but until recently, the voices of teachers articulating their...

This book explores the transnational practices of migrant groups in global London, illustrating the complex relations between migrants and the city in the context of globalisation. The chapters offer...

Using the author's own experiences in addition to a survey of 150 creative writing teachers, this book critiques the creative writing workshop and suggests a possible replacement that 'unsilences'...

The volume highlights the role of language ideologies in the process of negotiation of identities and shows that in different historical and social contexts different identities may be negotiable or...

This is a collection of twelve chapters, reporting on research results and presenting theoretical insights into the processes of language acquisition. The first part outlines the neurobiological...

The chapters in this book address three main strands in ongoing scholarly work on prescriptivism: language, literary and scripted texts, and speech communities. Collectively, the chapters...

This book, featuring chapters from the foremost practitioners in the field of modern languages, closely examines research-based analysis, structural contexts and classroom practice in teaching and...

This book provides a comprehensive and multidimensional examination of transfer in second language acquisition. It brings theoretical analyses together with work based on empirical observation...

This book explores the immense potential of translanguaging in various educational settings and language contexts and considers the need for pedagogy to reflect and embrace diversity. Chapters...

This book, written by leading audiovisual translation experts, introduces the reader to some of the main linguistic and cultural challenges that translators face when dealing with audiovisual...

This book presents the latest developments in crosslinguistic influence (CLI) and multilingualism research. The contributors consider CLI in lexis, syntax, tense-aspect, morphology, phonology of...

What is Creative Writing? Millions of people do it, but how do we do it, really? What evidence of its undertaking does Creative Writing produce? How do we explore Creative Writing and how do we come...