[lg policy] New Books from Multilingual Matters

Wed Sep 28 14:15:10 UTC 2011

Forwarded From:   edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu

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 / €27.95
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 / €34.95
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 / €44.95
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 / €34.95
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 / €89.95
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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