Bilingualism / ESL Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. The Economics of the Multilingual Workplace

   By François Grin, Claudio Sfreddo, François Vaillancourt

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book proposes a path-breaking study of the economics of multilingualism at work, proposing a systematic approach to the identification and measurement of the ways in which language skills and economic performance are related. Using the instruments of economic investigation, but also...

   Published June 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Dialogue With Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Joan Kelly Hall, Gergana Vitanova, Ludmila A. Marchenkova

   This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching. Situated within a strong conceptual framework and drawing from a rich empirical base, it...

   Published April 23rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education

   Issues and Challenges

   Edited by Alisa Belzer

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Interlanguage Variation in Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspective

   By H.D. Adamson

   In this book H.D. Adamson reviews scholarship in sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, comparing theories of variation in first and second-language speech, with special attention to the psychological underpinnings of variation theory. Interlanguage is what second language learners speak...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Language, Identity, and Stereotype Among Southeast Asian American Youth

   The Other Asian

   By Angela Reyes

   This book—an ethnographic and discourse analytic study of an after-school video-making project for 1.5- and second-generation Southeast Asian American teenagers—explores the relationships among stereotype, identity, and ethnicity that emerge in this informal educational setting. ...

   Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. English Language Assessment and the Chinese Learner

   Edited by Liying Cheng, Andy Curtis

   'This volume addresses a very timely and important topic, and provides both broad and in-depth coverage of a number of large-scale English tests in China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, and about the Chinese learner.' – Lyle F. Bachman, From the Foreword Building on current theoretical and...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue

   Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas

   Edited by Mary Shepard Wong, Suresh Canagarajah

   The legacy of English teaching and Christian missionaries is a flashpoint within the field of English language teaching. This critical examination of the place of Christianity in the field is unique in presenting the voices of TESOL professionals from a wide range of religious and spiritual...

   Published June 9th 2011 by Routledge