"The revival of translation as a means of learning and teaching a foreign language and as a skill in its own right is becoming a reality in undergraduate as in postgraduate degree programmes. The main reasons for this remarkable comeback lie in recent changes in Applied Linguist…
"Using teaching vignettes, cases for exploration, and research in the field, this text provides teachers with effective, research-based literacy strategies they can use to improve their practice with students from diverse backgrounds. The cases - drawn from urban, rural, and sub…
English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy: Interpreting and Authoring Digital Multimedia Narrativesis about the fusion of media and narrative, and explores theoretical and practical dimensions of young peoples engagement with contemporary forms of text. English Teaching and …
Voices of the self: a study of language competence
Politics can be a very important influence on educational developments and their deployment. However, this volume is different from other volumes since it looks, not at the macropolitics and the ideological agendas of nations and multinational or global organisations, but rather…
This volume highlights the importance of micropolitics in shaping language education policy, development and projects. Chapters discuss background theory to understanding micropolitics, issues surrounding the research and publication of political behaviour by individuals and ins…