International English in Its Sociolinguistic Contexts

Towards a Socially Sensitive EIL Pedagogy

By Sandra Lee McKay, Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng

Present-day globalization, migration, and the spread of English have resulted in a great diversity of social and educational contexts in which English learning is taking...

Published June 6th 2008 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

more information about International English in Its Sociolinguistic Contexts

Grassroots Literacy

Writing, Identity and Voice in Central Africa

By Jan Blommaert

What effect has globalization had on our understanding of literacy? Grassroots Literacy seeks to address the relationship between globalization and the widening gap between ‘grassroots’...

Published June 2nd 2008 by Routledge.

more information about Grassroots Literacy

Language and Interaction

An Advanced Resource Book

By Richard F. Young

'This book provides an excellent, comprehensive resource for teaching degree programmes in the fields of language, social interaction and human communication. The discussion is always...

Published May 23rd 2008 by Routledge.

more information about Language and Interaction

An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics

Language in Evidence

By Malcolm Coulthard, Alison Johnson

From the accusation of plagiarism in The Da Vinci Code, to the infamous hoaxer in the Yorkshire Ripper case, the use of linguistic evidence in...

Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge.

more information about An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics

Advances in Discourse Studies

Edited by Vijay Bhatia, John Flowerdew, Rodney H. Jones

Methods of approaching the study of discourse have developed rapidly in the last ten years, influenced by a growing interdisciplinary spirit among linguistics and anthropology,...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.

more information about Advances in Discourse Studies

Literacy, Lives and Learning

By David Barton, Roz Ivanic, Yvon Appleby, Rachel Hodge, Karin Tusting

Demonstrating what it is like to be an adult learner in today’s world, this book focuses on language, literacy and numeracy learning. The authors explore...

Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge.

more information about Literacy, Lives and Learning

The Articulate Mammal

An Introduction to Psycholinguistics

By Jean Aitchison

An established bestseller, The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics. This fifth edition brings the book up-to-date...

Published September 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

more information about The Articulate Mammal

Bilingualism

An Advanced Resource Book

By Ng Bee Chin, Gillian Wigglesworth

Bilingualism:

• introduces students to key issues and themes that include bilingual development and education; and the integration of social and cognitive perspectives
• uses tasks and examples to...

Published July 4th 2007 by Routledge.

more information about Bilingualism

Corpus Linguistics

Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Edited by Wolfgang Teubert, Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Corpora—large collections of written and/or spoken text stored and accessed electronically—provide the means of investigating language that is of growing importance academically and professionally. Corpora...

Published June 14th 2007 by Routledge.

more information about Corpus Linguistics

Language Testing and Assessment

An Advanced Resource Book

By Glenn Fulcher, Fred Davidson

Language Testing and Assessment:

• introduces students to the key methods and debates surrounding language testing and assessment
• explores the testing of linguistic competence of children, students, asylum...

Published December 12th 2006 by Routledge.

more information about Language Testing and Assessment