Multilingual Matters Limited

This book consists of theoretical chapters dealing with the why, what and how of RLS, chapters devoted to 13 separate cases from various parts of the world and concluding chapters that both restate...

This book offers a language revitalisation method that can be used with Indigenous and minority languages, especially in cases where the native language has been lost among people of a working age...

This book presents a comprehensive picture of languages and school in Catalan-speaking countries. The book makes information on the situation in these countries available to an English-speaking...

This book brings together a variety of voices - including students and teachers, journal editors and authors - to interrogate the notion of risk in academic writing. Risk-taking is viewed as a...

This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration of women from the Philippines to Singapore, it...

This book elicits L2 creative writers' own perspectives of their life histories through the form of interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, and investigates the writers' emerging writing...

The book contains studies on L2 lexical processes based on empirical findings by authors mostly from Central Europe. Questions of integration, storage, vocabulary acquisition and assessment, word...

This book looks at how people learn and use a 2nd language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteristics of the 1st and 2nd writing systems, to a certain extent independently of...

This book explores the role of identity in adolescent foreign language learning. It presents both qualitative and quantitative research, as well as a new model of identity, to support the claim that...

This book claims that the silent period represents a psychical event, a non-linguistic as well as linguistic moment in the continuous process of identity formation and reformation. It calls on...

This book presents the latest research on the role of strategy use and development in second and foreign language teaching and learning. It will equip scholars and practitioners with the knowledge to...

Using sociocultural approaches to research on language learning and an extensive corpus of classroom videos made over four years, the book documents language learning as an epiphenomenon of peer...

Most Indigenous and minority children are not provided with multilingual education, which would enable them to succeed both in school and in society. In this important book, experts from around the...

Drawing on the perspective of language socialization and a theory of indexicality, this book examines dinnertime talk in a homestay context and explores ways in which learners of Japanese as a...

This book outlines a framework for teaching second language pragmatics grounded in Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. Using multiple sources of metalinguistic and performance data, the volume...

This textbook introduces the reader to concepts of sociocultural theory, through a series of narratives illuminating key concepts of the theory. This 2nd edition references recent studies that...

This book provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, including topics of nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, multimodal...

Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process is an introduction to language, law and society for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. Drawing on a wide range of topics, it explores what...

This book presents solutions for the evaluation of language abilities and proficiency in multilingual speakers - and by extension, the evaluation of their cognitive and academic abilities. It brings...

Spanish is spoken in many countries around the world. Like all languages, it has regional and social variation. Spanish speakers in the US will invariably come into contact with this great variety...

This book investigates various aspects of speaking in a foreign language. It is unique in considering this key skill from both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives, and in focusing...

Spelling Trouble? explores the linguistic, cultural and political issues underpinning the public disputes surrounding the 1996 reform of German orthography. Sally Johnson's book will be of interest...

This book is a unique collection of research studies on French Immersion conducted from the authors' base as a research team in British Columbia, Canada. It serves as an important resource for...

This book helps dissolve the myth of Japanese homogeneity by explaining the history of this construct and offering 12 empirical studies on different facets of language contact in Japan, including...

This book brings together a collection of most recent theoretical and empirical studies on fossilization. It covers a wide range of perspectives and issues. The analyses discussed herein address key...

In this book the author explores the work and living experiences of Confucius Institute Chinese teachers in the UK, how they interpret and make sense of their sojourning experience, and how this...

This is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. It traces one group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy to the arrival of digital literacies. It...

This book explores the relevance that second language research has for the secondary foreign language classroom. It analyses the concept of teaching and learning exclusively through the target...

This book brings together findings on content-based teacher education from international contexts to help prepare teachers for this challenging setting. It offers a solid grounding in theories and...

This 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...