Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia
1st Edition
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By Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson, Maggie McAlinden
May 05, 2025
This collection explores the ways in which women in academia from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds mediate the negotiation of linguistic discrimination and linguistic diversity in higher education, using autoethnography to make visible their lived experiences. The volume shows how ...
Concept-based Language Instruction: Usage-based Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory in Teaching Japanese
1st Edition
By Kyoko Masuda, Amy Snyder Ohta, Rie Tsujihara
January 27, 2025
This volume showcases how concept-based language instruction (C-BLI) can be effectively integrated into foreign language instruction. C-BLI is grounded in the relationship between theory, research, and practice, incorporating visual aids called SCOBAs (schemas for a complete orientating basis of ...
Theory and Practice in Vocabulary Research in Digital Environments
1st Edition
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By Mark Feng Teng, Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Junjie Gavin Wu
December 27, 2024
This collection is a comprehensive resource on the state of second language vocabulary learning today, building on earlier studies to spotlight the diversity of issues and foci in the field toward encouraging further advancements in both research and practice. The volume foregrounds the importance ...
Virtual English as a Lingua Franca
1st Edition
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By Inmaculada Pineda, Rino Bosso
November 28, 2024
This collection offers a comprehensive account of the development of intercultural communication strategies through Virtual English as a lingua franca, reflecting on the ways in which we make pragmatic meaning in today’s technology-informed globalized world. The volume places an emphasis on ...
Interdisciplinary Practices in Academia: Writing, Teaching and Assessment
1st Edition
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By Louisa Buckingham, Jihua Dong, Feng (Kevin) Jiang
October 08, 2024
This volume addresses the implications that academic interdisciplinarity in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has for research and pedagogy with a global reach. The Editors present a coherent, research-supported analysis of the influence of ...
Reflexivity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Suggestions
1st Edition
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By Sal Consoli, Sara Ganassin
October 04, 2024
This edited collection provides research-informed guidance on how reflexivity may be practised in applied linguistics research. Specifically, we promote reflexivity as an essential hallmark of quality research and argue that doing reflexivity confers greater transparency, methodological rigour, ...
Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis
1st Edition
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By David M. Palfreyman, Nizar Habash
August 26, 2024
This innovative volume is one of the first to represent the usage of bilingual writers in both their languages, offering insight into language corpora as extremely valuable tools in contemporary applied linguistics research, and in turn, into how much of the world’s population operate daily. This ...
Crosslinguistic Influence in L3 Acquisition: Bilingual Heritage Speakers in Germany
1st Edition
By Eliane Lorenz
August 26, 2024
This book explores crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition, drawing insights from a study of young bilingual secondary school students in Germany to unpack the importance of different variables in the acquisition and use of English as an additional language. Lorenz draws on data ...
Korean as a Heritage Language from Transnational and Translanguaging Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Hyesun Cho, Kwangok Song
August 26, 2024
This collection critically reflects on the state-of-the-art research on Korean-as-a-heritage-language (KHL) teaching and learning, centering KHL as an object of empirical inquiry by offering multiple perspectives on its practices and directions for further research. The volume expands prevailing ...
Understanding Variability in Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, and Cognition: A Multi-Layered Perspective
1st Edition
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By Kristin Kersten, Adam Winsler
May 27, 2024
This collection brings together linguistic, psychological, and sociological perspectives reflecting on the relationships and interactions of the multilayered factors impacting second language development and cognitive competence. The book advocates a system approach as a counterpoint to existing ...
Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles
1st Edition
By Jonathan Ngai
January 29, 2024
Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles is the first book-length study of evaluation or stance in three major newspaper genres: hard news stories, editorials and feature articles, the last of which is a Cinderella genre in linguistic studies. It offers...
Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Social Theories, and Validity
1st Edition
By Janna Fox, Natasha Artemeva
January 29, 2024
This volume reconsiders the problem of context in language testing and other modes of assessment from the perspective of transdisciplinarity. Transdisciplinary assessment research brings together collaborators who draw on the strengths of their differing backgrounds and expertise in order to ...