Attitudes and Language

Attitudes and Language
Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1992
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853591426

The book aims to establish the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages. The strong tradition of attitude theory and research from social psychology is made relevant to language restoration and decay. Original research shows how attitude to bilingualism is conceptually distinct from attitude to a specific language. A piece of research in Wales investigates the origins of language attitudes in individual differences and in environmental attributes.

Teacher Voices in Chinese Language Teaching

Teacher Voices in Chinese Language Teaching
Author: Scott Smith
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2023-01-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030892131

This book reports the results of an ethnographic study, focusing primarily on the experiences of four teachers of the Chinese language in Australian secondary schools. The author creates an audience for their voices as they reflect on their own understandings of culture, language teaching, and culture in language teaching through semi-structured interviews, and compares these reflections with written stimulus dialogues designed to elicit 'culture-in-language' reflections, as well as curriculum and policy documents produced by the Australian government. The book's findings indicate that teachers of the Chinese language are diverse in their views on culture, language teaching, and the ways in which culture can or should inform language teaching, and the author argues that language teacher intercultural competence cannot be assessed through a synthesis of the current English-only research literature. This book will be of interest to teachers and teacher trainers of Chinese as a foreign language, as well as students and scholars of applied linguistics and language education more broadly.

Researching Second Language Learning and Teaching from a Psycholinguistic Perspective

Researching Second Language Learning and Teaching from a Psycholinguistic Perspective
Author: Dagmara Gałajda
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2016-04-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 331931954X

This edited collection explores the processes of second language learning and teaching from a psycholinguistic perspective. Authored by leading experts in the field, the book includes studies focusing on theoretical, empirical and practical aspects of second and foreign language education. Part One offers contributions devoted to a range of learner-related factors, dealing with affective and cognitive variables, the process of reading and the acquisition of lexis. Part Two brings together papers related to teacher awareness of second language instruction that focus on conversational styles, fostering intercultural pragmatics, teacher job satisfaction, the development of instructional materials and challenges of teacher training in different contexts. It is of interest to researchers as well as graduate and postgraduate students seeking fresh inspirations for their own empirical investigations of the ways in which second and foreign languages are taught and learned.

Attitudes towards English in Europe

Attitudes towards English in Europe
Author: Andrew Linn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1614515514

The status of English in Europe is changing, and this book offers a series of studies of attitudes to English today. Until recently English was often seen as an opportunity for Europeans to take part in the global market, but increasingly English is viewed as a threat to the national languages of Europe, and the idea that Europeans are equally at home in English is being challenged. This book will appeal to anyone interested in global English.

The Bookseller

The Bookseller
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1156
Release: 1901
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

English Dramatic Interludes, 1300–1580

English Dramatic Interludes, 1300–1580
Author: Darryll Grantley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2004-04-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139451707

Darryll Grantley has created a comprehensive guide to the interlude: the extant non-cycle drama in English from the late fourteenth century up to the period in which the London commercial theatre began. As precursors of seventeenth-century drama, not only do these interludes shed important light on the technical and literary development of Shakespearean theatre, but many are also works of considerable theatrical or cultural interest in themselves. This accessible reference guide provides an entry for each of the extant interludes and fragments (c.100) typically containing an account of early editions or manuscripts; authorship and sources; modern editions; plot summary and dramatis personae; list of social issues present in the plays; verbal and dramaturgical features; songs and music; allusions and place names; stage directions and comments on staging; and modern productions, among other valuable and informative details. There are full bibliographies, indexes of characters and songs, and appendices.