Framing Discourse on the Environment

A Critical Discourse Approach

By Richard Alexander

In this study, Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and...

Published August 25th 2008 by Routledge.

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Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking

By I.S.P. Nation, Jonathan Newton

Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners...

Published August 12th 2008 by Routledge.

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Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing

By I.S.P. Nation

Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners...

Published August 12th 2008 by Routledge.

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ESL (ELL) Literacy Instruction

A Guidebook to Theory and Practice

By Lee Gunderson

This comprehensive research-based text provides both ESL and mainstream teachers with the background and expertise necessary to plan and implement reading programs that match the...

Published August 4th 2008 by Routledge.

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Heritage Language Education

A New Field Emerging

Edited by Donna M. Brinton, Olga Kagan, Susan Bauckus

"… focuses on issues at the forefront of heritage language teaching and research. Its state-of-the-art presentation will make this volume a standard reference book for...

Published July 28th 2008 by Routledge.

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International English in Its Sociolinguistic Contexts

Towards a Socially Sensitive EIL Pedagogy

By Sandra Lee McKay, Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng

Present-day globalization, migration, and the spread of English have resulted in a great diversity of social and educational contexts in which English learning is taking...

Published June 6th 2008 by Routledge.

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Grassroots Literacy

Writing, Identity and Voice in Central Africa

By Jan Blommaert

What effect has globalization had on our understanding of literacy? Grassroots Literacy seeks to address the relationship between globalization and the widening gap between ‘grassroots’...

Published June 2nd 2008 by Routledge.

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The Science of Stories

An Introduction to Narrative Psychology

By János László

The Science of Stories explores the role narrative plays in human life. Supported by in-depth research, the book demonstrates how the ways in which people...

Published May 29th 2008 by Routledge.

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English and Celtic in Contact

By Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Heli Paulasto

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. Drawing on both original research and existing work,...

Published May 28th 2008 by Routledge.

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Language and Interaction

An Advanced Resource Book

By Richard F. Young

'This book provides an excellent, comprehensive resource for teaching degree programmes in the fields of language, social interaction and human communication. The discussion is always...

Published May 23rd 2008 by Routledge.

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