This book explores Intercultural Citizenship across a variety of US learning contexts. The chapters, which comprise both conceptual and empirical studies, represent a wide variety of languages a...więcej »
This book details a study of teacher education programs that prepare teachers to work with multilingual learners. The book examines how racism and linguicism shape the conditions under which tea...więcej »
This book applies a psycholinguistic perspective to instructed second language acquisition, bridging the gap between research and teaching practices. It re-envisions the explicit and implicit le...więcej »
This unique volume draws on the theoretical framework and methodological tools of conversation analysis to examine interactional competence and its development as it occurs in a range of interac...więcej »
Work in the knowledge economy operates quite differently than in the industrial economy in that it is highly dependent on communication and language. This book considers how language and culture...więcej »
This is the first book to specifically examine zoos as tourist attractions. Taking a global approach, it considers the multiple roles of zoos, particularly the difficulty of balancing conservati...więcej »
This book uses examples of classroom interaction to reveal how teachers of languages act as intercultural mediators and the implications of this for practice. The book offers an account of what ...więcej »
This book brings together ideas on identifying and measuring second language proficiency. The chapters introduce a range of tools for the evaluation of learners' language level with respect to b...więcej »
This book uses new archival research to view the wider cultural scope of the translation issue involving the controversies surrounding Kundera’s translated novels. It focuses on the language of ...więcej »
This book provides a thorough and detailed understanding of tourism marketing principles and practice within the context of inter-organisational collaboration. It introduces concepts, theories a...więcej »
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...więcej »
This ethnographic study provides a holistic, multi-stakeholder view of the first twenty years of tourism development in a remote region of Eastern Indonesia. It examines how tourism is intertwin...więcej »
This book offers original insights into the broad and deep influences of tourism, and places them within the historical context of globalisation. The research undertaken on a Canary Island empha...więcej »
This book presents studies at the cutting edge of second language vocabulary research by authors whose work represents much of the current focus and direction of investigation in this area. Vari...więcej »
This book draws attention to the problems and issues surrounding fast-growing tourism in the highly sensitive wilderness areas of polar regions. The authors discuss mainly polar issues, but thei...więcej »
This book offers the first in-depth, critical exploration of the foreign retirement/expatriate communities proliferating in both size and number throughout Latin America. This book draws on a di...więcej »
The relationships between tourism and royalty have received little coverage in the tourism literature. Tourism has also received limited attention in historical studies of royalty. This book bre...więcej »
This book discusses culture bumps, meaning puzzling or impenetrable wordings which are the result of literal translations of allusions, and how to deal with a culture-specific, source-text allusion...więcej »
This book explores subordinated vernacular languages in the context of African, Caribbean and US educational landscapes, highlighting the social cost of linguistic exceptionalism in these areas....więcej »
This volume brings together studies from learning contexts that provide intensive exposure to the target language: naturalistic immersion (immigration and study abroad), intensive instruction, a...więcej »