Language and Education Books

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11. Errors and Intelligence in Computer-Assisted Language Learning

    Parsers and Pedagogues

    By Trude Heift, Mathias Schulze

    Series: Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning

    This book provides the first comprehensive overview of theoretical issues, historical developments and current trends in ICALL (Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning). It assumes a basic familiarity with Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theory and teaching, CALL and linguistics. It...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
12. Introducing Multilingualism

    A Social Approach

    By Jean-Jacques Weber, Kristine Horner

    Introducing Multilingualism is a brand new, comprehensive and user-friendly introduction to the dynamic field of multilingualism. Adopting a compelling social and critical approach, Jean-Jacques Weber and Kristine Horner guide readers through the established theories about multilingualism. The...

    Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
13. Applied Linguists Needed

    Cross-disciplinary Networking in Endangered Language Contexts

    Edited by Lida Cope

    It is a fact that the world’s languages are dying at an alarming rate. This comprehensive volume aspires to raise awareness among applied linguists and language practitioners about the needs and concerns of endangered language communities. It suggests that the way forward lies in building language...

    Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
14. Educational Linguistics

    Edited by Nancy H. Hornberger

    Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

    What educational approaches best serve language-minority children? What policies, programmes, and circumstances encourage or contribute to minority-language maintenance? How do we make sense of the ecology of language development and socialization in non-traditional settings? And what is the...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
15. English in the World

    History, Diversity, Change

    Edited by Philip Seargeant, Joan Swann

    Series: Worlds of English

    English in the World: History, Diversity, Change examines the English language as it has developed through history and is used across the globe today. The first half of the book outlines the history of the language from its fifth-century roots through its development as a national, a colonial, and...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
16. The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

    Edited by Susan M. Gass, Alison Mackey

    Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

    The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition brings together fifty leading international figures in the field to produce a state-of-the-art overview of Second Language Acquisition. The Handbook covers a wide range of topics related to Second Language Acquisition: language in context,...

    Published November 13th 2011 by Routledge
17. Language, Ethnography, and Education

    Bridging New Literacy Studies and Bourdieu

    By Michael Grenfell, David Bloome, Cheryl Hardy, Kate Pahl, Jennifer Rowsell, Brian V Street

    This frontline volume contributes to the social study of education in general and literacy in particular by bringing together in a new way the traditions of language, ethnography, and education. Integrating New Literacy Studies and Bourdieusian sociology with ethnographic approaches to the study of...

    Published October 2nd 2011 by Routledge
18. Language Teaching

    Integrational Linguistic Approaches

    Edited by Michael Toolan

    Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

    This book demonstrates the relevance of an integrational linguistic perspective to a practical, real-world need, namely the learning of languages. Integrational linguistics’ shunning of both realist and structuralist theories of language, its commitment to an unwavering attention to the perspective...

    Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
19. Multimodal Studies

    Exploring Issues and Domains

    Edited by Kay O'Halloran, Bradley Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

    The phenomenon of multimodality has, as Jewitt observes, generated interest "across many disciplines...against the backdrop of considerable social change." Contemporary societies are grappling with the social implications of the rapid increase in sophistication and range of multimodal practices,...

    Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge
20. Language and Learning in the Digital Age

    By James Paul Gee, Elisabeth R. Hayes

    In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator Elisabeth Hayes deal with the forces unleashed by today’s digital media, forces that are transforming language and learning for good and ill. They argue that the role of oral language is almost always entirely...

    Published January 27th 2011 by Routledge