10.7, Books: New Applied Linguistics Series from Longman

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Subject: 10.7, Books: New Applied Linguistics Series from Longman

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1)
Date:  Tue, 05 Jan 1999 11:03:07 GMT
From:  <Simon.Collins at awl.co.uk>
Subject:  Interpreting as Interaction, Cecilia Wadensj

2)
Date:  Tue, 05 Jan 1999 11:13:19 GMT
From:  <Simon.Collins at awl.co.uk>
Subject:  Managing Evaluation and Innovation in Language Teaching

3)
Date:  Tue, 05 Jan 1999 11:18:36 GMT
From:  <Simon.Collins at awl.co.uk>
Subject:  Reading in a 2nd Language, Sandy Urquhart

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 05 Jan 1999 11:03:07 GMT
From:  <Simon.Collins at awl.co.uk>
Subject:  Interpreting as Interaction, Cecilia Wadensj


     INTERPRETING AS INTERACTION
     CECILIA WADENSJ
     Researcher in the Department of Communication Studies at Linkping
     University, Sweden.

     Paper      0-582-28910-6
     Cased      0-582-28910-6
     336 pages  1999
     Language in Social Life Series
     Longman

     ------------------------------

'Interpreting in Interaction' provides an account of
interpreter-mediated communication, exploring the responsibilities of
the interpreter and the expectations of both the interpreter and of
other participants involved in the interaction. The book examines ways
of understanding the distribution of responsibility of content and the
progression of talk in interpreter-mediated institutional face-to-face
encounters in the community interpreting context.

Bringing attention to discursive and social practices prominent in
modern society but largely unexplored in the existing literature, the
book describes and explains real-life interpreter-mediated
conversations as documented in various public institutions, such as
hospitals and police stations. The data show that the interpreter's
prescribed role as a non-participating, non-person does not -and
cannot - always hold true.

The book convincingly argues that this in one sense exceptional form
of communication can be used as a magnifying glass in the grounded
study of face-to-face institutional interaction more generally.

Cecilia Wadensj explains and applies a Bakhtinian dialogic theory of
language and mind, and offers an alternative understanding of the
interpreter's task, as one consisting of translating and
co-ordinating, and of the interpreter as an engaged actor solving
problems of translatability and problems of mutual understanding in
situated social interactions.

Teachers and students of translation and interpretation studies,
including sign language interpreting, applied linguistics and
sociolinguistics will welcome this text. Students and professionals
within law, medicine and education will also find the study useful to
help them understand the role of the interpreter within these
frameworks.

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     Further information on the books published in this series, and the
     table of contents for this title can be viewed at the Longman
     Linguistics on-line catalogue at:

     http://www.awl-he.com/linguistics

     For a complete listing of our world-wide offices, please click below:

     http://www.awl-he.com/offices



-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 05 Jan 1999 11:13:19 GMT
From:  <Simon.Collins at awl.co.uk>
Subject:  Managing Evaluation and Innovation in Language Teaching

     MANAGING EVALUATION AND INNOVATION IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
     Edited by PAULINE REA-DICKINS
     Head of the Language Testing and Evaluation Unit at the Centre for
     English Language Teacher Education, the University of Warwick, UK
     and KEVIN GERMAIN, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at St Mary's
     University College, Twickenham, UK

     Paper      0-582-30373-7
     320 pages  1999
     Applied Linguistics and Language Study Series
     Longman

     ---------------------------------------------

'Managing Evaluation and Innovation in Language Teaching' focuses on the
connections to be made between evaluation and change in language education
with a specific focus on English Language Teaching. The book demonstrates
the central importance of evaluation in relation to language projects and
programmes, the  management of change and innovation, and in improving
language teacher development.

The introductory chapter provides an overview of the present trends in
evaluation as well as offering examples of recent evaluation projects.
Subsequent chapters identify contemporary issues in evaluation and their
relevance to language teaching, covering a number of cultural and
ethnographic studies in evaluation management in different world-wide
contexts, as well as drawing insights from other related disciplines. The
editors seek to draw attention to the possibilities of inter-disciplinary
exchange to inform the reader of current practice, and highlight emerging
issues in the expanding field of evaluation in language teaching,
especially in ELT.

The contemporary nature of the studies presented here will be relevant to
both post graduate students following language education programmes as well
as to professionals involved in language teaching. It will be of particular
interest to those involved in the management of innovation and the
evaluation of projects and programmes, such as curriculum developers,
course directors of language studies, and professionals with a special
responsibility for bringing about change in language teaching contexts.

     ----------------------------------------------------------------------

     Further information on the books published in this series, and the
     table of contents for this title can be viewed at the Longman
     Linguistics on-line catalogue at:

     http://www.awl-he.com/linguistics

     For a complete listing of our world-wide offices, please click below:

     http://www.awl-he.com/offices


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 05 Jan 1999 11:18:36 GMT
From:  <Simon.Collins at awl.co.uk>
Subject:  Reading in a 2nd Language, Sandy Urquhart

     READING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE
     SANDY URQUHART
     Department of English, College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UK
     CYRIL WEIR
     Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Reading, UK

     Paper      0-582-29836-9
     368 pages  1999
     Applied Linguistics and Language Study Series
     Longman

     ---------------------------------------------

'Reading in a Second Language' sets the testing and teaching of reading
against a theoretical background, discussing research from both applied
linguistics and cognitive psychology. Where possible, it focuses on
research into second language readers and distinguishes different kinds of
reading, particularly expeditious as opposed to careful reading, and
emphasizes the validity of each.

Sandy Urquhart and Cyril Weir relate testing and teaching, discussing
similarities and differences, providing a comprehensive survey of both
methods with the emphasis on those which have been substantiated or
supported by research evidence. Finally, the book proposes specific
research topics, and detailed advice on how to construct tests of language
for academic purposes and suggestions for further research.

The book is intended for teachers, testers, advanced students and
researchers into reading in a second language and will also be useful to
teacher trainers, inservice trainees, experienced teachers and
textbook writers.

     ----------------------------------------------------------------------

     Further information on the books published in this series, and
     the table of contents for this title can be viewed at the Longman
     Linguistics on-line catalogue at:

     http://www.awl-he.com/linguistics

     For a complete listing of our world-wide offices, please click below:

     http://www.awl-he.com/offices


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