Books published by Multilingual Matters

This book embarks on an ever-expanding array of language, academic mobility, neoliberalism, and accompanying rich scholarly debates, with a focus on the day-to-day work experiences of international English language teachers in Saudi Arabia's higher education.

This book presents the results of research that focused on international students receiving writing instruction on a US university campus. It explores how the students developed their foreign-student identities and their own ways of grappling with the unique issues they encountered as they worked to improve their academic literacy skills.

This book presents the results of research that focused on international students receiving writing instruction on a US university campus. It explores how the students developed their foreign-student identities and their own ways of grappling with the unique issues they encountered as they worked to improve their academic literacy skills.

This book embarks on an ever-expanding array of language, academic mobility, neoliberalism, and accompanying rich scholarly debates, with a focus on the day-to-day work experiences of international English language teachers in Saudi Arabia's higher education.

The edited volume contributes to the comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the global ELT landscape in instructional settings within and across countries. It brings together language teachers, educators and researchers who use their experiences of shuttling across borders to reflect on the shaping of their pedagogical and research practices.

The edited volume contributes to the comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the global ELT landscape in instructional settings within and across countries. It brings together language teachers, educators and researchers who use their experiences of shuttling across borders to reflect on the shaping of their pedagogical and research practices.

The book shows how English has been newly constituted as a dominant language in post-market reform India. Political economic transitions experienced as radical social mobility fuelled intense non-elite desire for English schooling. Rather than English schooling leading to social mobility, new experiences of mobility necessitated English schooling.

This book provides a contemporary and critical examination of the theoretical and pedagogical impact of Michael Byram's pioneering work on intercultural communicative competence and intercultural citizenship. The book offers comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible knowledge for researchers, teachers, teacher-trainers and students.

This book explores the reasons why adult ESL learners drop out of their language classes and suggests explicit strategies for keeping students engaged. The most effective strategies may be personal rather than technical or curricular.

This book discusses the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its Companion Volume on curricula, teaching/learning and assessment in a wide range of educational contexts, identifies challenges posed by the Companion Volume and sheds light on areas that require further research and development.

This book presents research focused on young emergent bilingual children's multimodal meaning-making processes in diverse cultural and linguistic settings. Each chapter includes practical pedagogical recommendations, making it an essential resource for using multiple modes to teach literacy with diverse student populations.

This edited book expands the current scholarship on teaching world languages for social justice and equity in K-12 and postsecondary contexts in the US. The chapters address how world language teachers approach social justice in their teaching, and how teacher educators prepare teachers to teach for social justice in the language classroom.

This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. It explores the contingencies and tensions in the creation of a 'global village' and reveals ambivalent struggles inherent in this ongoing process of social change.

This book maps person to person peacebuilding as it intersects with, and is embedded in, intercultural communication. It foregrounds the voices and discourses of participants in an intercultural online service-learning project focused on peace through education in Afghanistan, primarily through synchronous English language tutoring.

This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of a practical introduction to intercultural education for teachers of English as a second language. This new edition addresses developments in the field since the publication of the 1st edition, including the impact of online resources for English language education.

This book offers a unique understanding of how researchers' linguistic resources, and the languages they use, are politically and structurally constrained, with implications for the reliability of the research. The book will help readers to make theoretically and methodologically informed choices about the political dimensions of their research.

Through the application of self-determination theory (SDT) to research and practice, this book deepens our understanding of how autonomous language learning can be supported and understood outside of the classroom. The chapters deal with learning environments and open spaces, communities and relationships, and advising and self-access.

This book opens readers' eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern English streets: what they look like, who and what they are for, how they link to English history and how they form part of life in multilingual England today.

This book aims to advance multilingual research in foreign language education. It contributes to a discussion of how to foster the acquisition of subsequent foreign languages by engaging learners' existing linguistic resources in an optimal way, and how to strengthen the connection between research and foreign language teaching practice.