DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone

The Hidden Status Agendas Within Corpus Planning in Language Policy

By Joshua A. Fishman

This book, focused on corpus planning in language policy, provides a broad, integrative framework and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with...

Published March 7th 2006 by Routledge.

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Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education

Edited by Shondel J. Nero

This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices--both theoretical and practical--on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students--in North America and worldwide--who are...

Published March 3rd 2006 by Routledge.

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Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition

By Judit Kormos

This extremely up-to-date book, Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition, is the first volume in the exciting new series, Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition....

Published March 1st 2006 by Psychology Press.

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Researching Second Language Classrooms

By Sandra Lee McKay

This text introduces teachers to research methods they can use to examine their own classrooms in order to become more effective teachers. Becoming familiar with...

Published January 20th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Psychology of the Language Learner

Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition

By Zoltán Dörnyei

Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less...

Published November 30th 2005 by Psychology Press.

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Ideas and Options in English for Specific Purposes

By Helen Basturkmen

This volume presents a range of views about language, learning, and teaching in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Its purpose is to go beyond individual...

Published November 16th 2005 by Routledge.

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Preparing Quality Educators for English Language Learners

Research, Policy, and Practice

Edited by Kip Téllez, Hersh C. Waxman

This volume brings together a broad range of academics, school-based educators, and policymakers to address research, policy, and practice issues related to improving the education...

Published November 11th 2005 by Routledge.

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Teaching World Languages for Social Justice

A Sourcebook of Principles and Practices

By Terry A. Osborn

Teaching World Languages for Social Justice: A Sourcebook of Principles and Practices offers principles based on theory, and innovative concepts, approaches, and practices illustrated through...

Published November 9th 2005 by Routledge.

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Dialogic Approaches to TESOL

Where the Ginkgo Tree Grows

By Shelley Wong

This book locates dialogic pedagogy within the history of TESOL approaches and methods in which the communicative approach has been the dominant paradigm. Dialogic inquiry...

Published September 26th 2005 by Routledge.

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Multicultural Issues and Literacy Achievement

By Kathryn Au

This book is a sequel to the author's earlier volume entitled, Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings. In addition to extensive updating of earlier material, this...

Published September 26th 2005 by Routledge.

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