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An investigation of academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English. >

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Genre-based courses enable second language learners to integrate their linguistic, organisational and contextual knowledge in a variety of different tasks. This book reviews pedagogical approaches to genre through English for Specific Purposes and Systemic Functional Linguistics to present a synthesis of the research in the field.

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Proposes a fresh model of genre-based approaches to academic writing, and analyses the ways in which this can be implemented in pedagogy and curriculum design. This book focuses on the use of genre-based approaches to teaching academic writing. It is suitable for researchers in applied linguistics.

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Examines what constitutes plagiarism in academic writing using empirical data and from a linguistic perspective. >

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Examines plagiarism, the inappropriate relationship between a text and its sources, from a linguistic perspective. This book uses empirical data drawn from a sample of student writing, compared against written sources to argue that some plagiarism can be regarded as a failure of pedagogy rather than a deliberate attempt to transgress.

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Examines what constitutes plagiarism in academic writing using empirical data and from a linguistic perspective. >

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Exploring research and pedagogy on second language writing, this volume focuses on issues concerning policy decisions affecting foreign students.

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Focuses on the issues and challenges facing ESL/EFL students and scholars who choose to, or have to, write in English in higher education contexts.

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Aselection of recent work by experts in academic written discourse illustrates how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can work as complementary approaches.

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Contemporary research into written academic discourse has become increasingly polarised between two approaches: corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. This book illustrates how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can work as complementary approaches. It is suitable for researches and postgraduates in applied linguistics.

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Explores how British trainee teachers modify their accents to construct an identity considered 'appropriate' for their profession and discusses the impact on their personal identity.

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This book presents a theory of speech-sound generation in the human vocal system.

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Presents an analysis of the problems of learning a second language as experienced by a family of learners. This book includes a study of a family of L2 English learners, focusing on a tightly-knit group of learners' acquisition of phonology over a longitudinal timeframe, and a study of social and linguistic factors in that time period.

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A study of the phonological development of a family of L2 English learners. It analyses data from actual language learners to examine the developmental processes involved in acquiring a nonnative sound system. It focuses on a tightly-knit group of learners' acquisition of phonology over a longitudinal timeframe.

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Now in its third edition, this innovative textbook on English grammar uses linguistic theory and techniques to explain key concepts.

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Using the works of African American female writers, this folklinguistic study presents research on the use of language that counters social stereotypes. Topics include language and gender, and the relationship between language and ethnic group, region, and social class.

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African Multilingualisms is the first book dedicated to presenting case studies of small-scale multilingualism in rural Africa. Contributors present extensive new data on sociolinguistic patterns found in these contexts and consider new, more ethnographically sensitive methods for exploring multilingualism of this kind.

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African Multilingualisms is the first book dedicated to presenting case studies of small-scale multilingualism in rural Africa. Contributors present extensive new data on sociolinguistic patterns found in these contexts and consider new, more ethnographically sensitive methods for exploring multilingualism of this kind.