Channel View Publications: 585 books
Optimizing Language Learners Nonverbal Behavior
From Tenet to Technique
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This book highlights the pivotal role that nonverbal behavior plays in target language communication, affect and cognition. It integrates research tenets and video demonstrations of nonverbal behavior with structured activities that will guide teachers and learners of any language to capitalize on...
Language Teacher Identities
Co-constructing Discourse and Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2008
Set in the rapidly changing world of the contemporary United Arab Emirates and bringing together detailed linguistic analysis with cutting edge social theory, this book explores the development of the first cohort of students to complete a new Bachelor of Education in English language teaching, theorizing...
Refugee Resettlement in the United States
Language, Policy, Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This edited volume brings together scholars from various disciplines to discuss how language is used by, for, and about refugees in the United States in order to deepen our understanding of what ‘refugee’ and ‘resettlement’ mean. The main themes of the chapters highlight:
the intersections...
by MILTON, James
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Measuring Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition describes the effect that word frequency and lexical coverage have on learning and communication in a foreign language. It examines the tools we have for assessing the various facets of vocabulary knowledge, the scores these produce, and the way these are tied to exam and communicative performance.
Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School
Research Insights
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provides a significant and important contribution to this often overlooked domain and aims to provide research-based evidence that might help to inform and develop...
Discontinuity in Second Language Acquisition
The Switch between Statistical and Grammatical Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
With a particular focus on the morphosyntactic features of second language, this book discusses the idea that language acquisition is a discontinuous and 'quantized' process and thus that some items might be learned twice, statistically and grammatically. It argues that the switch from one way of...
Crosslinguistic Influence in Multilinguals
An Examination of Chinese-English-French Speakers
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book reports on a research project conducted in multilingual Hong Kong, where Cantonese is the mother tongue (L1) of the majority of the population and learning different foreign languages is commonplace. In addition to English, which is usually the second language (L2), more and more people...
Language and Learning in the International University
From English Uniformity to Diversity and Hybridity
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
This book views the international university as a microcosm of a world where internationalization does not equate with across-the-board use of English, but rather with the practice of linguistic and cultural diversity, even in the face of Anglophone dominance. The globalization-localization continuum...
The Japanese Writing System
Challenges, Strategies and Self-regulation for Learning Kanji
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This is the first book devoted to exploring issues of learning written Japanese, focusing on the challenges the writing system poses for the second language learner. It weaves together previous research on Japanese second language acquisition and kanji learning with original studies on self-regulation...
Race and Ethnicity in English Language Teaching
Korea in Focus
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book examines racism and racialized discourses in the ELT profession in South Korea. The book is informed by a number of different critical approaches to race and discourse, and the discussions contained in the chapters offer one way of exploring how the ELT profession can be understood from...
Dialogic Pedagogy
The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth theoretical perspective on dialogue in teaching. It explores the philosophy of dialogism as a social theory of language and explains its importance in teaching and learning. Departing from the more traditional teacher-led mode of teacher–student communication,...
Assessing Grammar
The Languages of LARSP
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
This collection is a resource book for those working with language disordered clients in a range of languages. It collects together versions of the well-known Language Assessment Remediation Screening Procedure (LARSP) prepared for different languages. Starting with the original version for English,...
Spirituality and English Language Teaching
Religious Explorations of Teacher Identity, Pedagogy and Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
This collection of 16 reflective accounts and data-driven studies explores the interrelationship of religious identity and English Language Teaching (ELT). The chapters broaden a topic which has traditionally focused on Christianity by including Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and non-religious perspectives....
Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship
Rights, Access, Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
This volume explores the concept of 'citizenship', and argues that it should be understood both as a process of becoming and the ability to participate fully, rather than as a status that can be inherited, acquired, or achieved. From a courtroom in Bulawayo to a nursery in Birmingham, the authors...