Books in the Multilingual Matters series

The essays and research papers in this collection explore current issues in Language Education, English for Academic Purposes, Contrastive Discourse Analysis, and Language Policy and Planning, and outline promising directions for theory and practice in applied linguistics. The collection also honours the life-long contribution of Robert B. Kaplan to the field.

This book brings together research by international scholars on the often contentious nature of language policies and their practical outcomes in North America, Australia and Europe. It presents a range of perspectives from which to engage with a variety of issues raised by multilingualism, multiculturalism, immigration, exclusion, and identity.

This book discusses the idea that cultural learning is an integral part of foreign language learning and offers a practical introduction to the issues by describing classroom practice, curriculum innovation and experimental courses. It also covers principles of methodology and problems in assessing cultural learning.

This volume is the most complete of any published concerning the nine native languages of Quebec: Abenaki, Algonquin, Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, Micmac, Mohawk, Montagnais and Naskapi.

This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from five continents and advances the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.

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. Research shows how attitude to bilingualism is distinct from attitude to a specific language.

This book examines how people help other people learn. Using examples of talk recorded in classrooms, it shows how teachers and learners succeed and fail in the process of guiding learning and constructing knowledge. The book is directly relevant to teachers concerned about the quality of education in their classrooms.

This book is about the relationship between language and the society that uses it. It specifically aims to discover what drives the French to concentrate so much on language, on what characterises their approach, and on the explanations for the policies governments pursue.

This book provides theoretical, empirical and practical bases for planning and implementing multilingual education programmes that prepare students for a multilingual world. It addresses the unique challenge that promoting multilingualism and multilingual education presents.

This book consists of theoretical chapters dealing with the why, what and how of RLS, chapters devoted to 13 separate cases from various parts of the world and concluding chapters that both restate and apply the underlying theory to second language for which intergenerational continuity is pursued precisely as second languages.

The seventh edition of this bestselling textbook has been extensively revised and updated to provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education in an everchanging world. Written in a compact and clear style, the book covers all the crucial issues in bilingualism at individual, group and societal levels.

This book explores the difference between languages that children learn in the home and the languages valued by society and established as the medium of instruction in schools is an almost universal problem in educational systems. In this book, researchers discuss practice and theory in various parts of the world.

This book analyses policy issues regarding the education of minority students in western industrialised societies and presents a number of case studies of programs that have been successful in reversing the pattern of minority students' academic failure.

The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together.

This book deals with individual bilingualism, societal and educational phenomena and addressing issues such as bilingual usage, acquisition, teaching, and language planning and policy. The volume's major asset lies in its diversity of topics and in the range of languages and geographical regions covered.

This book is an anthology of articles on teaching English to speakers of other languages. The emphasis is on practical concerns of classroom procedures and on the cross-cultural aspects of teaching English around the world. Several of the articles focus on communicative language teaching.

The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a foreign language is both necessary and desirable. Languages and cultures are interlinked and interdependent and their teaching and learning should be too.

This book examines medium-sized linguistic communities in urban contexts against the backdrop of the language policies which have been implemented in these respective areas. The book aims to improve our understanding of how and why languages live and decay, and of how intercultural cities can be better built and encouraged.

This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of critical onomastic enquiry. The contributors to this publication examine why names are not only symbols of a person or place, but also manifestations of cultural, linguistic and social heritage in their own right.

This book challenges the monolingual mindset by highlighting how language-related issues surround us in many different ways, and explores the tensions that can develop in managing and understanding multilingualism. It features analysis and discussion on the use of languages across a range of contexts, including policy and education

This volume explores the main challenges facing 7 well-established medium-sized language communities with regard to their survival and development at the beginning of the 21st century. The book provides an in-depth analysis of each case, and reaches conclusions that are relevant to other cases and to language policy theory in general.

Expanding on the results of the EU project LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), this book pursues a multi-focal approach which elaborates on European Multilingualism as an ongoing process of shaping policy and generating scientific knowledge.

This volume explores the complex interactions of language with economic resources. The authors address the issues of poverty and language survival from multiple perspectives, drawing on linguistics, language policy and planning, economics, anthropology, and sociology.

This book provides critical insights into the English-medium instruction experiences which have been implemented at a number of universities in countries such as China, Finland, Israel, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain and the USA, which are characterised by differing political, cultural and sociolinguistic situations.