This volume responds to the growing need for intercultural approaches to teaching and learning languages. The central premise is that the aim of intercultural language teaching and learning is to foster effective communication and effective learning in spaces between cultures in…
Will there be any 'happy dispute' again? A debate among people holding different opinions that does not end with a repetition of the initial idea, but rather with an improvement of one's own beliefs and those of others? In order to achieve this, we need to rely on education whic…
"Starting from the key idea that learners and teachers bring diverse linguistic knowledge and resources to education, this book establishes and explores the concept of the 'multilingual turn' in languages education and the potential benefits for individuals and societies. It tak…
This book recounts the ways in which grammatical metaphor (GM) has evolved in SFL theory, discusses the research studies that explored the development of GM in language development and language education contexts, and presents various ways of providing written feedback to Englis…
This book on applied linguistics presents new trends and improvements on the teaching of Spanish. It deals Other two major scopes in the field of linguistics that have a crucial role in the development of language teaching in general and of the teaching of Spanish in particular:…
This book offers a global exploration of current theory and practice in the teaching of stylistics and the implementation of stylistic techniques in teaching other subjects. Pedagogical stylistics is a field that looks at employing stylistic analysis in teaching, with the aim of…