Multilingual Matters Limited

Translation is intercultural communication in its purest form. The chapters in this unique volume assess translation from Arabic into other languages from different perspectives: the politics,...

This volume investigates cultural migrants: people who, from their own free will, move to another country because of their interest in the target language and culture. Chapters include studies on...

This book deals with the acquisition of understanding of foreign cultures and peoples. It is also a study of the philosophy and purpose of language teaching in all its facets, in the context of...

The growing cultural, racial and linguistic diversity in schools has changed the face of language teaching in many countries. This book presents theory and research by a group of internationally...

This book uncovers the social and educational experiences of young Indigenous immigrants in the US. Highlighting the multilingual and multicultural diversity of Latin American immigrants, it explores...

This book discusses culture bumps, meaning puzzling or impenetrable wordings which are the result of literal translations of allusions, and how to deal with a culture-specific, source-text allusion...

With an emphasis on addressing gender-based violence and the role of women and cultural work in peacebuilding, the chapters in this book represent the fruit of collaborative work across borders,...

This volume examines educational assessment of bilingual children and the challenges faced by teachers. It takes the creative ideas of Jim Cummins and applies them through a novel technique of...

This groundbreaking book echoes the growing demand for decolonization of the production and dissemination of academic knowledge. Reflecting the dynamic nature of online discussion, this...

This volume brings together scholars from around the world to juxtapose the voices of classroom participants alongside the voices of ruling elites with the aim of critically linking language policy...

Drawing from case studies of marginalized individuals in Mexico and the U.S., this book explores the colonizing concept of illiteracy, as well as how the long social history of conquest and...

This book tells the story of a project in Mexico which aimed to decolonize primary English teaching by building on research that suggests Indigenous students are struggling in many educational...

This book reviews the hidden cultural challenges of adapting to life abroad. Combining intercultural theory with the lived experiences of sojourners, it reviews key concepts, introduces a cultural...

This book, focused exclusively on demotivation, helps readers understand motivational issues in language learning from a new perspective. It presents research situated in Japanese English-teaching...

This book provides practical help for teachers who wish to help their learners acquire intercultural competence in the ordinary classroom. It contains descriptions of lessons and materials from a...

Many teachers recognise the importance of integrating intercultural learning into language learning. This book argues that teachers can work creatively with conventional resources and utilise...

This book explores the interplay between English for specific purposes (ESP) and English-medium instruction (EMI) and the ways in which they are implemented, as well as teaching and assessing...

This book documents ongoing language shift to English among Latino professionals in California. It describes instructional practices used in the teaching of Spanish as an academic subject at the high...

This book persuasively argues the case that ethnography must be viewed as a full theoretical system, rather than just as a research method. Blommaert traces the influence of his reading of classic...

This book explores current issues in Language Education, English for Academic Purposes, Contrastive Discourse Analysis, and Language Policy and Planning, and outline promising directions for theory...

Migrant workers are crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use and identity construction of the children of...

This is a book about discovering how you do creative writing. How you begin, how you structure, how your writing process works, how a work embodies movement and change, what influences you, and,...

This book questions assumptions about the nature of language. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, the authors argue that unless we change the...

This book explores the effectiveness of the writing workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, going beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to consider alternative pedagogical...

Dual language education is a program that combines language minority and language majority students for instruction through 2 languages. This book provides the background for the program and...

This book addresses specific learning difficulties in reading and spelling - developmental dyslexia. Set in the cross-linguistic context, it presents issues surrounding dyslexia from the perspective...

The chapters in this book bring together key figures and fresh voices from the field of teaching modern foreign languages (MFL) to young children to present a state-of-the-art volume on the topic...

This book examines which factors lead to success in foreign language learning at an early age in instructional settings. The studies investigate learners aged between three and ten, their parents and...

This book investigates language learning by young learners in instructed contexts and the potential for mixed methods to allow for a comprehensive understanding of early language learning. Chapters...

Modern languages are taught to young learners at an increasingly early age, yet few studies focus on what is available to children in different contexts and classrooms. This book examines current...