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Explains how the cultural practices of a community can be used as the vehicle for learning its language, showing how two apps have been developed to deliver language learning while users are carrying out real-life cultural activities.

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A complete revision and modernisation of this classic introduction to Hebrew.

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Showcases how multimodality can enable effective teaching in the context of EME, exploring case studies from the Asian context.

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(Hardback, 3rd edition)

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The book discusses developments in the diagnosis of foreign language proficiency.

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Examines how single-player role-playing digital games may promote foreign language acquisition and looks at how they can be integrated into the curricula of foreign language classrooms to achieve desirable pedagogical outcomes.

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Makes the case for ecolinguistics in environmental education and demonstrates how these perspectives can be used as a powerful form of ecologically critical pedagogy.

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Miguel Delibes' inaugural address to the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975 portrayed "El camino" (1950) as a distant precursor of the emergent Green movement. This text comprises an introductory essay discussing Green issues, attitudes towards the Spanish peasantry under Franco, and the function of the novel's subtly orchestrated comedy.

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This book offers lenses and portraits of Latino/a adolescents who put into practice the elements of literacy for English language arts learning and understanding. It illustrates how adolescents experience scribal identities and language pluralism that sustains their cultural knowledge as they make meaning in civic and schooling communities.

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

Using a corpus of data drawn from naturally-occurring second language conversations, this book explores the role of idiomaticity in English as a native language, and its comparative role in English as a lingua franca. It examines how idiomaticity enables first language learners to achieve a greater degree of fluency.

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Using a corpus of data drawn from naturally-occurring second language conversations, this book explores the role of idiomaticity in English as a native language, and its comparative role in English as a lingua franca.

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Examines the field of teaching English in occupational settings as a particular instance of general workplace training and development. This book unites scholarship on workplace English with general training. It is suitable for researchers in English for specific purposes and applied linguistics as well as scholars of workplace education.

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

Provides a critical analysis of the materials used for learning English around the world, considering both the teachers' and the learners requirements. This research is useful for academics researching materials development and applied linguistics and for students on post-graduate applied linguistics and ELT courses.

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Presents a review of the materials used for learning English around the world. This book includes a discussion of materials for specific learners and purposes while presenting a study of the materials used in different countries, and evaluating their effectiveness in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages.

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A collection of unique, practical insights on teaching English in Latin America, direct from the teachers themselves.

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This text provides a practical guide to teaching English to students for whom English is not their first language. It features lesson planning and testing, covering all four modes of language: reading, listening, talking and writing, as well as the teaching of grammar and vocabulary.

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The trend within English teaching in China is for 'communicative competence' - that is, in being understood even if the English usage is incorrect. This volume argues that more solid grammar teaching must be coupled to this communicative competence, if English language teaching in China is to be successful.