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  • Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging

    Edited by Jeff MacSwan ...
    Series Book 1 - Language, Education and Diversity
    This book brings together a broad, interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to critically assess a recent proposal within translanguaging theory called deconstructivism: the view that discrete or ‘named’ languages do not exist. Contributors explore important topics in relation to the deconstructivist turn in translanguaging, including epistemology, language ideology, bilingual linguistic ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Language Diversity, Policy and Social Justice

    In Honor of Terrence G. Wiley

    Edited by Kellie Rolstad, Prof. Wayne E. Wright, Na Liu, Jeff MacSwan ...
    Series Book 151 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    This book honors the impactful work of Terrence G. Wiley on advancing social justice in the areas of language diversity and language policy. It brings together a group of experienced scholars to provide an overview of research and progress in three areas: heritage and community language education, ideologies of language and literacies, and language policy. The chapters cover a wide range of formal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching

    by Jeff MacSwan ...
    Series series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
    First Published in 1999. Code switching is widely used in bilingual communities worldwide, and has been found in government documents, literature, religious works, and song. Pursuing this aim here, chapter 1 addresses the relevance of the study of code switching for education and schooling, focusing on ways in which a misunderstanding of code switching may lead to tacit tracking effects for ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Codeswitching in the Classroom

    Critical Perspectives on Teaching, Learning, Policy, and Ideology

    Edited by Jeff MacSwan, Christian J. Faltis ...
    Series series Language Education Tensions in Global and Local Contexts
    Bringing together sociolinguistic, linguistic, and educational perspectives, this cutting‐edge overview of codeswitching examines language mixing in teaching and learning in bilingual classrooms. As interest in pedagogical applications of bilingual language mixing increases, so too does a need for a thorough discussion of the topic. This volume serves that need by providing an original and wide ... Read more

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    Learning to Use Language in Context

    by Kimberly L. Geeslin, Avizia Yim Long ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, exploring the variety of ways in which social context influences the acquisition of a second language. It reviews basic principles of sociolinguistics, provides a unified account of the multiple theoretical approaches to social ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Bilingual Competence and Bilingual Proficiency in Child Development

    by Norbert Francis ...
    A study of first and second language development in an indigenous community with implications for broader linguistic and cognitive issues.When two or more languages are part of a child's world, we are presented with a rich opportunity to learn something about language in general and about how the mind works. In this book, Norbert Francis examines the development of bilingual proficiency and the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Developing Advanced Literacy in First and Second Languages

    Meaning With Power

    Edited by Mary J. Schleppegrell, M. Cecilia Colombi ...
    This book addresses the linguistic challenges faced by diverse populations of students at the secondary and post-secondary levels as they engage in academic tasks requiring advanced levels of reading and writing. Learning to use language in ways that meet academic expectations is a challenge for students who have had little exposure and opportunity to use such language outside of school. Although ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education

    Language, Literacy and Culture

    Edited by Marcia Farr, Lisya Seloni, Juyoung Song ...
    In recent decades, the linguistic and cultural diversity of school populations in the United States and other industrialized countries has rapidly increased along with globalization processes. At the same time, schooling as it is currently constituted continues to be ineffective for large numbers of students. Exploring crucial issues that emerge at the intersection of linguistic diversity and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Language and Social Relationship in Brazilian Portuguese

    The Pragmatics of Politeness

    by Dale April Koike ...
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  • The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

    by Silvina Montrul ...
    Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage language does not fully develop. In the last decade, the acquisition of heritage languages has become a central focus of study within linguistics and applied linguistics. This work centres on the grammatical ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos ...
    Series series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics.Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguisticsHighlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theoryBrings together a ... Read more

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  • L2 Spanish Pragmatics

    From Research to Teaching

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    Series series Routledge Advances in Spanish Language Teaching
    L2 Spanish Pragmatics is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current research into pragmatics and Spanish language teaching.It presents the research on the teaching of pragmatics and Spanish language as a multifaceted discipline. Written by an international cohort of scholars, the breadth of topics includes innovative topics in the teaching of Spanish, such as genre analysis, discourse ... Read more

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