Multilingual Matters Limited

Covering a number of European languages from Portuguese to Hungarian, this volume includes many new studies of translation patterns using parallel corpora focusing on particular linguistic features,...

This edited collection evaluates indigenous community-based initiatives from around the world. Examples include programmes among Maori in New Zealand, S?mi in Norway, Aboriginal People in Australia,...

Individual Learner Differences in SLA addresses the apparently insoluble conflict between the unquestionably individual character of the process of second language acquisition / foreign language...

This book considers innovation in US-based Intensive English Programs (IEPs), which provide international students with an immersion-style environment for learning academic English, prior to...

This book focuses on L2 classroom discourse analysis in the light of Relevance Theory. Input for instructed L2 learners is understood as the language presented by the teacher in order to facilitate...

This volume bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together well-known and new authors to discuss a topic of mutual interest to second language researchers and teachers alike: input...

This book brings together a collection of new studies on different aspects of vocabulary teaching and learning. The contributions present the results of original empirical research in the field by...

This book is a practical, informative and concise guide for college and university faculty across all disciplines who are dealing with today's diverse student body: an increasingly ethnically,...

This volume brings together studies from learning contexts that provide intensive exposure to the target language: naturalistic immersion (immigration and study abroad), intensive instruction, and...

This book is about categorization processes in native/non-native workplace interaction, in the context of internship interviews between Danish employers and second language speakers who were born...

This book explores the educational significance of intercultural experience. It offers a broader conception of interculturality than commonly found in the area of foreign language teaching. It aims...

This book presents an ethnographic study of a modern language classroom where students not only learn to speak, read, listen or write a new language, but where they also learn to understand, to feel...

In recent decades the explosive growth of globalization and regional integration has fuelled parallel growth in multilingual conferences. Although conference interpreting has come of age as a...

The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. It brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language...

The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. It brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language...

This book brings together research that makes use of tasks to examine oral interaction, written production, vocabulary and reading, lexical innovation and pragmatics in different formal language...

This book brings together research that makes use of tasks to examine oral interaction, written production, vocabulary and reading, lexical innovation and pragmatics in different formal language...

This book discusses key issues surrounding the evaluation of language abilities and proficiency in multilingual speakers. It brings together researchers working on bilingual and multilingual children...

Many of the most important English vocabulary may already exist in native lexicons. This pioneering book examines Japanese lexical borrowing, clarifies the effect of cognates on foreign language...

This textbook offers an introductory overview of eight hotly-debated topics in second language acquisition research. It offers a glimpse of how SLA researchers have tried to answer common questions...

This book seeks to disrupt the narrative about the process of academic writing and the written products which are currently valued in the university. The author uses writing as both a subject and a...

This overview of the linguistic development of Korean-English bilingual children in the US focuses on morphology and syntax acquisition in early childhood, a time when language dominance is shifting...

This unique volume draws on the theoretical framework and methodological tools of conversation analysis to examine interactional competence and its development as it occurs in a range of...

In this book different aspects of language and aging are discussed. While language spoken by and language spoken with elderly people have been treated as different areas of research, it is argued...

This book brings together a selection of Professor Fishman's writings on language and ethnicity in minority perspective. Joshua Fishman's well-known dedication to worldwide cultural democracy and...

This book provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status, the effect...

This book examines the evidence relative to the idea that there is an age factor in first and second language acquisition, evidence that has sources ranging from studies of feral children to...

This book explores the close association between use of a language and the sense of affiliation with the culture associated with it: an allegiance that seems to garner a type of loyalty and support...

In this book different aspects of language and aging are discussed. While language spoken by and language spoken with elderly people have been treated as different areas of research, it is argued...

This book presents a view of what it means to teach language and culture in a world characterised by transnational flows of people, commodities and ideas. It contains an analysis of the national...