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  • The TESOL Research Training Journey

    Voices from International PhD Students

    Research training is challenging, and the attrition rate of doctoral students has been increasing in Canada, the UK, the USA and Australia. In their book, Chen and Le examine the reasons for these students becoming demotivated, particularly in the context of TESOL. There has been much investigation into research training issues in multiple contexts and multiple disciplines. Yet, the research ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Teaching of Culture in English as an International Language

    An Integrated Model

    Series series Routledge Advances in Teaching English as an International Language Series
    The importance of integrating the teaching and learning of language and culture has been widely recognised and emphasized. However, how to teach English as an International Language (EIL) and cultures in an integrative way in non-native English speaking countries remains problematic and has largely failed to enable language learners to meet local and global communication demands.Developing ... Read more

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  • A Future for the European Patchwork

    Cohesion through Spatial Planning since 1990

    The issue of cohesion and the policies associated with it are concerns not only for supranational entities such as the EU, but also for nation states and regions alike. Traditional instruments for promoting cohesion include symbolic, economic and social policies. However, given the contemporary tensions at both the international and domestic levels, attempts to create or maintain ›cohesion‹ are so ... Read more

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  • The Gangster We Are All Looking For

    The highly acclaimed novel that reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country.**“A brilliant evocation of human sorrow and desire.... Heartbreaking and exhilarating.” —**The New York Times Book ReviewIn 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San ... Read more

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  • Republican Vietnam, 1963–1975

    War, Society, Diaspora

    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    English-language scholarship all too often dismisses South Vietnam as an American creation, a product of US imperialism. Republican Vietnam, 1963–1975 boldly upends this depiction, exposing a diverse and dynamic portrait of the Second Republic. In twelve essays, each based on original archival research, the volume brings to life the Second Republic in all its complexities, displaying how ... Read more

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  • Individual Language Policy

    Bilingual Youth in Vietnam

    Series Book 135 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    This book explores individual language policy among bilingual youth who belong to different ethnic minority groups in Vietnam, through vivid stories detailing their life with multiple languages. It examines the youth’s daily language behaviours through the unique theoretical lens of individual language policy, and the ways in which this policy interacts with and is influenced by language policies ... Read more

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  • A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Vietnamese Children and Mothers in Canada

    Composing Lives in Transition

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book recounts the understanding of three Vietnamese children and their mothers’ experiences as they navigate being newcomers to Canada. It explores the cultural, traditional, familial, intergenerational, personal, social, institutional, political, historical, community, and linguistic narratives shaping Vietnamese children and mothers as they compose their lives. The author employs narrative ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Gangster We Are All Looking For

    Narrated by Quyen Ngo ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 29 min

    A momentous literary debut: the life of a Vietnamese family in America luminously observed through the knowing eyes of a child.In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world of itchy dresses and run-down apartments is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears ... Read more

    $14.95 USD

  • Ensuring the Rights of Migrant Workers

    Views from Origin Countries in Asia

    This collection provides insights into international labor migration in the context of globalization through the lens of international law and national law of some Asian countries that are the home countries of migrant workers. The main focus of the volume is on challenges regarding international labor migration that some developing countries in Asia have been confronted with. It investigates and ... Read more

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  • Journal of Greater Mekong Subregion Development Studies October 2014

    Series series Journal of Greater Mekong Subregion Development Studies
    The Journal of GMS Development Studies is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed publication that seeks to promote a better understanding of a broad range of development issues of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). This journal is published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) under the framework of the Phnom Penh Plan for Development Management (PPP), a region-wide capacity building program that ... Read more

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  • Richard M. Nixon and European Integration

    A Reappraisal

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book re-examines the Nixon administration’s attitude and approach to the European integration project. The formulation of US policy towards European integration in the Nixon presidential years (1969-1974) was conditioned by the perceived relative decline of the United States, Western European emergence and competition, the feared Communist expansionism, and US national interests. Against that ... Read more

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  • First-Principles Calculations for Cathode, Electrolyte and Anode Battery Materials

    Series series IOP ebooks
    This book presents the first-principles calculations that can be used to determine the essential chemical and physical characteristics of cathode, electrolyte and anode materials in ion-based batteries. Methods for evaluating and analysing the first-principles results are discussed in detail, and the theoretical framework is illustrated for each system. This text is ideal as a reference for ... Read more

    $114.49 USD