[EDLING:1039] Recent Books from Multilingual Matters
Francis M Hult
fmhult at DOLPHIN.UPENN.EDU
Sat Oct 15 16:59:17 UTC 2005
> Books recently published by Multilingual Matters
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> (1) Decolonisation, Globalisation
> Language-in-Education Policy and Practice
> Edited by Angel M.Y. Lin (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
> & Peter W. Martin (University of East London)
>
> This is a wonderfully probing volume that takes nothing for granted about the role of English and English language teaching in postcolonial contexts across our globe.
> Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
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> This volume brings together scholars from around the world to juxtapose the voices of classroom participants alongside the voices of ruling elites with the aim of critically linking language policy issues with classroom practice in a range of contexts. The volume is suitable for postgraduate students, researchers and educators in a range of areas.
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> New Perspectives on Language and Education
> 4 July 2005 Format: 210 x 148mm 224pp
> Hbk ISBN 1-85359-825-9 £49.95/ US$89.95/ CAN$124.95
> Pbk ISBN 1-85359-824-0 £19.95/ US$39.95/ CAN$49.95
> Ebook ISBN 1-85359-826-7 (Adobe format) £49.95/ US$89.95/ CAN$124.95
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> For further information and to order at 20% discount, click on the following link:
> http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=1853598240
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> (2) Words and Worlds
> World Languages Review
> Fèlix Martí, Paul Ortega, Itziar Idiazabal, Andoni Barreña, Patxi Juaristi,
> Carme Junyent, Belen Uranga & Estibaliz Amorrortu
> UNESCO ETXEA
> The authors, UNESCO ETXEA and Multilingual Matters have made an important contribution to the understanding of one of the major issues of this and coming decades. Colin H Williams, Cardiff University
>
> World Languages Review aims to examine the sociolinguistic situation of the world: to describe the linguistic diversity that currently characterizes humanity, to evaluate trends towards linguistic uniformity, and to establish a set of guidelines or language planning measures that favour the weaker or more endangered linguistic communities, so that anyone engaged in language planning -government officials, institution leaders, researchers, and community members- can implement these measures.
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> 13 July 2005 Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 225x170mm 344pp
> Hbk ISBN 1-85359-827-5/EAN 978-185359-827-2 £49.95 / US$89.95/ CAN$119.95
> Ebook ISBN 1-85359-828-3/ EAN 978-185359-828-9 £49.95 / US$89.95/ CAN$119.95
> (Adobe Format)
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> For further information and to order at 20% discount, click on the following link:
> http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=1853598275
>
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> (3) Teacher Collaboration and Talk in Multilingual Classrooms
> Angela Creese (University of Birmingham)
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> “This highly topical book offers a critical analysis of collaboration between English as an additional language (EAL) teachers and subject teachers in schools. Angela Creese raises important questions about how issues of power and positioning affect the implementation of educational policy for bilingual children, and about how diversity is viewed in English schools. This excellent book will be of immense value to teachers, researchers, and policy-makers. “
> Dr. Adrian Blackledge, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Birmingham
>
> This volume looks at the interactions of collaborating teachers in multilingual classrooms and how these impact on what counts as knowledge in the secondary school classroom. It also looks at how policy statements and ideologies around multilingualism position teachers and learners in particular ways. A linguistic ethnographic approach is taken in the study, which considers the discourses of whole class and small group teaching and learning. Chapters consider the relation between different languages, different pedagogues and different teacher identities in the secondary school classroom. The book documents how a policy of inclusion is played out in practice.
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> Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
> 2 August 2005 Format: 225 x 170mm 232 pp
> Hbk ISBN 1-85359-822-4 £59.95 / US$119.95/ CAN$149.95
> Pbk ISBN 1-85359-821-6 £24.95/ US$49.95/ CAN$59.95
> Ebook ISBN 1-85359-823-2 (Adobe format) £59.95 / US$119.95/ CAN$149.95
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> For further information and to order at 20% discount, click on the following link:
> http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=1853598216
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> (4) Language Planning and Policy Europe, Vol.1: Finland, Hungary and Sweden
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> Edited by Robert B. Kaplan (University of Southern California)
> and Richard, B Baldauf Jr. (University of Queensland)
>
> This volume covers the language situation in Hungary, Finland, and Sweden explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of minority and migrant languages. The authors have been participants in the language planning context in these polities.
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>
> Language Planning and Policy Format: 248x168mm 344pp
> 2 September 2005
> Hbk ISBN 1-85359-811-9 / EAN 9781853598111 £34.95/ US$64.95/ CAN$89.95
> Ebook ISBN 1-85359-812-7 / EAN 9781853598128 £34.95/ US$64.95/ CAN$89.95
> (adobe format)
>
> For further information and to order at 20% discount, click on the following link:
> http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=1853598119
>
> (5) Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Communication
> An International Investigation
> Lies Sercu (Catholic University of Leuven) with
> Ewa Bandura, Paloma Castro, Leah Davcheva, Chryssa Laskaridou, Ulla Lundgren, María del Carmen Méndez García and Phyllis Ryan
>
> Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Communication: An International Investigation reports on a study that focused on teachers’ beliefs regarding intercultural competence teaching in foreign language education. Its conclusions are based on data collected in a quantitative comparative study that comprises questionnaire answers received from teachers in seven countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Poland, Mexico, Greece, Spain and Sweden. It not only creates new knowledge on the variability, and relative consistency, of today’s foreign language teachers’ views regarding intercultural competence teaching in a number of countries, but also gives us a picture that is both more concrete and more comprehensive than previously known.
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> Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education 10
> 2005 Format: 210 x 148mm 232pp
> Hbk ISBN 1-85359-844-5 £54.95/ US$99.95/ CAN$125.95
> Pbk ISBN 1-85359-843-7 £24.95/ US$44.95/ CAN$59.95
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> For further information and to order at 20% discount, click on the following link:
> http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=1853598437
>
> (6) Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts
> Kees de Bot (University of Groningen) and
> Sinfree Makoni (Pennsylvania State University)
>
> This valuable volume offers a complex and nuanced understanding of both language and aging while underscoring the importance relating both to larger, diverse contexts that older people find themselves in. It serves to remind us to constantly view and interpret the speech of older citizens in the most humane of terms. Vaidehi Ramanathan, Professor, University of California, Davis
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> In this book different aspects of language and aging are discussed. While language spoken by and language spoken with elderly people have been treated as different areas of research, it is argued here that from a dynamical system perspective the two are closely interrelated. In addition to overviews of research on language and aging, a number of projects on this topic in multilingual settings are presented
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> Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 53
> 15th September 2005 210 x 148mm 168pp
> Hbk ISBN 1-85359-841-0 / EAN 978-1-85359-841-8 £49.95/ US$99.95/ CAN$119.95
> Pbk ISBN 1-85359-840-2 / EAN 978-1-85359-840-1 £19.95/ US$39.95/ CAN$44.95
> Ebook ISBN 1-85359-842-9 / EAN 978-1-85359-842-5 £49.95/ US$99.95/ CAN$119.95
> (Adobe format)
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> For further information and to order at 20% discount, click on the following link:
> http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=1853598402
>
> (7) Directions in Applied Linguistics
> Edited by Paul Bruthiaux (Hong Kong Institute of Education), Dwight Atkinson (Temple University, Japan), William G. Eggington (Brigham Young University), William Grabe (Northern Arizona University) and Vaidehi Ramanathan (University of California, Davis)
>
> This collection will serve as an excellent text for an introductory course in applied linguistics or as an additional text in courses in educational linguistics, language policy and planning, or the teaching of English for Academic Purposes. Jody Crandall, University of Maryland
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> The essays and research papers in this collection explore current issues in Language Education, English for Academic Purposes, Contrastive Discourse Analysis, and Language Policy and Planning, and outline promising directions for theory and practice in applied linguistics. The collection also honours the life-long contribution of Robert B. Kaplan to the field.
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> Multilingual Matters No 133
> 6 October 2005 Format: 234x156mm 344 pp
> Hbk ISBN 1-85359-849-6 / EAN 978-1-85359-849-4 £54.95/ US$99.95/ CAN$129.95
> Ebook ISBN 1-85359-850-X / EAN 978-1-85359-850-0 £54.95/ US$99.95/ CAN$129.95
> (Adobe format)
>
> For further information and to order at 20% discount, click on the following link:
> http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=1853598402
>
> (8) Artificial Intelligence In Second Language Learning
> Raising Error Awareness
> Marina Dodigovic
> (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
>
> "The book treats a fascinating topic, in a unique manner in the way it combines all the fields related to Computer Assisted Language Learning. It will be a valuable contribution to the field" Dr Christine Appel, Lecturer, Dublin City University, Ireland.
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> This volume argues that adults can learn English as a second language if their typical errors are corrected systematically and in line with their preferred style of learning. The remedy designed for this purpose relies on artificial intelligence. The book describes original research which demonstrates the success of this approach.
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> Second Language Acquisition
> 7 October 2005 Format: 210x148mm 312 pp
> Hbk ISBN 1-85359-830-5/ EAN 9781853598302 £79.95/ US$149.95/ CAN$189.95
> Pbk ISBN 1-85359-829-1/ EAN 9781853598296 £29.95/ US$54.95/ CAN$69.95
> Ebook ISBN 1-85359-831-3/ EAN 9781853598319 £79.95/ US$149.95/ CAN$189.95
> (Adobe format)
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