Bilingualism & Multilingualism

Konrad Koerner, a leading historian of linguistics, has long said that an academic field cannot be considered to have matured until it has history ...

The book explores the pedagogical potential of autobiographical writing in English-as-a-foreign language, approaching the topic from an educational...

Focusing on English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in the Arab Gulf states, the authors consider both sociolinguistic and pedagogical perspective...

Practical Grammar Teaching for the Second Language Classroom provides a well-rounded foundation for teaching second language (L2) grammar for pre-s...

Practical Grammar Teaching for the Second Language Classroom provides a well-rounded foundation for teaching second language (L2) grammar for pre-s...

This book provides a detailed overview of research on mutual intelligibility between closely related languages. The book is organized around three...

As the first text to present, in one place, a comprehensive and systematic overview of Spanish language acquisition research, The Acquisition of Sp...

As the first text to present, in one place, a comprehensive and systematic overview of Spanish language acquisition research, The Acquisition of Sp...

The notion of the native speaker and its undertones of ultimate language competence, language ownership and social status has been problematized by...

Researchers in applied linguistics have found medical and health contexts to be fertile grounds for study, from macro-levels of conceptual analyse...

The book provides an encyclopaedic overview of the language contact between Slavic languages and Romani in Eastern, South-Eastern and East-Central...

Established in the early 1980s, Word Grammar is the first theory of grammar that was cast in the terms of cognitive linguistics. This book surveys ...

Building on the pioneering 2009 volume, Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education, this book reflects the significant expansion in...

Building on the pioneering 2009 volume, Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education, this book reflects the significant expansion in...

The global spread of English, with over two billion users of the language, is now well-documented. English functions as a language of education, bu...

This ethnographic work examines both the colonial language governmentality imposed by the Turkish state and the Kurdish language activism as a resp...