New Books from Multilingual Matters

Tue Sep 27 17:23:47 UTC 2011

NEW TRENDS IN CROSSLINGUISTIC INFLUENCE AND MULTILINGUALISM RESEARCH
Edited by Gessica De Angelis and Jean-Marc Dewaele

This excellent volume provides additional scientific evidence 
about the role of the previously acquired languages in the study 
of crosslinguistic influence and multilingualism. 
Jasone Cenoz, University of the Basque Country, Spain

This book presents the latest developments in crosslinguistic 
influence (CLI) and multilingualism research. The contributors 
situate their research in current debates and present it in an 
accessible way. They consider CLI in lexis, syntax, tense-aspect, 
morphology, phonology of multilingual production and link it to 
concepts such as redundancy, affordances, metalinguistic awareness 
and L2 status.

Price: £21.95 / US$34.95 / EUR27.95
Further information about New Trends in Crosslinguistic Influence 
and Multilingualism Research: 
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847694416

DISCOURSE, IDENTITY, AND CHINA'S INTERNAL MIGRATION
The Long March to the City
Dong Jie

Through her insightful ethnographic exploration of rural-urban 
migrant identity in neighborhoods and schools of Beijing, Dong 
Jie has achieved the ambitious purpose of documenting both the 
rapidly changing face of China's super-diverse cities and the 
theoretical value of a scaled approach to the study of linguistic 
processes of identity construction.  
Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Migrant workers are crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet 
little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study 
of the language use and identity construction of the children of 
internal migrants is innovative both in the context it studies and 
the scalar structure of discursive identity construction used to 
present its data.

Price: £24.95 / US$39.95 / EUR34.95
Further information about Discourse, Identity, and China's 
Internal Migration:
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847694195

L2 INTERACTIONAL COMPETENCE AND DEVELOPMENT
Edited by Joan Kelly Hall, John Hellermann and Simona Pekarek Doehler 

This volume is a milestone in the application of conversation 
analysis to the study of language learning and development. 
Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

This unique volume draws on the theoretical framework and 
methodological tools of conversation analysis to examine 
interactional competence and its development as it occurs in a 
range of interactional practices, from a variety of contexts, and 
in a variety of second languages.

Price: £34.95 / US$54.95 / EUR44.95
Further information about L2 Interactional Competence and 
Development:
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847694058

TRANSLATION AND OPPOSITION
Edited by Dimitris Asimakoulas and Margaret Rogers

Translation and Opposition is a must-read for anyone interested 
in the issues of agency, censorship and power. 
Kaisa Koskinen, University of East Finland, Finland

Translation and Opposition is an edited volume that explores 
issues of inter/intra-social agency and identity construction. The 
book features a collection of case studies in such diverse fields 
as interpreting, audiovisual translation and the translation of 
political discourse and (contemporary) literary texts. As 
contributors show, translation is an act of negotiating fault 
lines between 'us' and cultural or political 'others'.

Price: £29.95 / US$49.95 / EUR34.95
Further information about Translation and Opposition:
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847694300

INDIVIDUAL LEARNER DIFFERENCES IN SLA
Edited by Janusz Arabski and Adam Wojtaszek 

This volume makes a very important contribution to research on 
themes and issues connected with Individual Learner Difference in 
SLA. A "must" for researchers in SLA.
Muiris Ó Laoire, Institute of Technology Tralee, Ireland

Individual Learner Differences in SLA addresses the apparently 
insoluble conflict between the unquestionably individual character 
of the process of second language acquisition / foreign language 
learning and the institutionalised, often inflexible character of 
formal instruction in which it takes place. How, then, is success 
in SLA so prevalent?

Price: £79.95 / US$129.95 / EUR89.95
Further information about Individual Learner Differences in SLA:
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847694348

* Coming soon

TEACHING LANGUAGES TO STUDENTS WITH SPECIFIC LEARNING DIFFERENCES
Judit Kormos and Anne Margaret Smith

This is a comprehensive resource for new language teachers and 
experienced professionals who wish to enhance their knowledge of 
working with students who have a Specific Learning Difference such 
as dyslexia. It can be used a core text, forming the basis of a 
course, or as supplementary reading to extend existing courses.

Further information about Teaching Languages to Students with 
Specific Learning Differences:
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847696199 

SOCIAL JUSTICE LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION
Edited by Margaret R. Hawkins 

Social justice language teacher education conceptualizes language 
teacher education as responding to social and societal inequities 
that result in unequal access to educational and life opportunities. 
In this volume authors articulate a global view of Social Justice 
Language Teacher Education, with authors from 7 countries offering 
a theorized account of their situated practices.

Further information about Social Justice Language Teacher Education:
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847694225

THE STRUGGLE FOR LEGITIMACY
Indigenized Englishes in Settler Schools
Andrea Sterzuk 

This book examines experiences of Indigenous students in settler 
schools by using the example of a Canadian school as a window onto 
the relationship between colonial discourses; indigenized English 
language varieties; 
racialized identities; and biased educational practices of settler 
schools.

Further information about The Struggle for Legitimacy:
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847695178

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