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  • Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language

    Emerging Trends

    Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language, edited by Ko-Yin Sung, addresses three emerging themes in the field of Chinese language teaching and learning. (1) Increasingly ubiquitous in all language learning and teaching, and for the learning of Chinese as a second language in particular, information and communication technology (ICT) can serve as an important and effective tool ... Read more

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  • Multiliteracies in World Language Education

    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Putting a multiliteracies framework at the center of the world language curriculum, this volume brings together college-level curricular innovations and classroom projects that address differences in meaning and worldviews expressed in learners’ primary and target languages. Offering a rich understanding of languages, genres, and modalities as socioculturally situated semiotic systems, it ... Read more

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    This volume presents case studies of language learning beyond the classroom. The studies draw on a wide range of contexts, from North and South America to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Each provides principled links between theory, research and practice.While out-of-class learning will not replace the classroom, ultimately all successful learners take control of their own learning. This book ... Read more

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  • Logomania

    Fate & Fortune

    by Ellen Whyte ...
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  • A Century of Travels in China

    Writings of travelers have shaped ideas about an evolving China, while preconceived ideas about China also shaped the way they saw the country. A Century of Travels in China explores the impressions of these writers on various themes, from Chinese cities and landscapes to the work of Europeans abroad. From the time of the first Opium War to the declaration of the People’s Republic, China’s history ... Read more

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  • Translation and Opposition

    Translation and Opposition is an edited volume that brings together cultural and sociological perspectives by examining translation through the prism of linguistic/cultural hybridity and inter/intra-social agency. In a collection of diverse case studies, ranging from the translation of political texts to interpreting in concentration camps, the book explores issues of power struggle, ideology, ... Read more

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  • Assessing English Language Learners

    Theory and Practice

    Assessing English Language Learners explains and illustrates the main ideas underlying assessment as an activity intimately linked to instruction and the basic principles for developing, using, selecting, and adapting assessment instruments and strategies to assess content knowledge in English language learners (ELLs). Sensitive to the professional development needs of both in-service and pre ... Read more

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  • Literacy Tools in the Classroom

    Teaching Through Critical Inquiry, Grades 5-12

    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    This innovative resource describes how teachers can help students employ “literacy tools” across the curriculum to foster learning. The authors demonstrate how literacy tools such as narratives, question-asking, spoken-word poetry, drama, writing, digital communication, images, and video encourage critical inquiry in the 512 classroom. This dynamic text will inspire teachers to:Work together to ... Read more

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  • Literacy and Language in East Asia

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    Series series Education (R0)
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  • Rethinking Rural Literacies

    Transnational Perspectives

    Series series Education (R0)
    The chapters in this international collection investigate a wide range of theorizations of rurality and literacy; literate practices and pedagogies; questions of place, space, and sustainability; and representations of rurality that challenge simplistic conceptions of standardized literacy and the real-and-imagined world beyond the metropolis. ... Read more

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  • Overtested

    How High-Stakes Accountability Fails English Language Learners

    Series series Language & Literacy
    This timely book explores what is often overlooked in policy debates about the education of English language learners: how the day-to-day dynamics of the classroom are affected by high-stakes testing and the pressures students and teachers experience and internalize as a result. The author presents and analyzes classroom observations, student work, and test scores, as well as interviews with ... Read more

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