New Books...

This book presents mixed-methods research into Chinese students' willingness to communicate (WTC) in an EFL classroom context.…

In a world where an increasing amount of communication takes place in English among non-native speakers, this study presents data from email exchanges to provide the first examination of sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of native-like variability in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) context.…

Inquiry into signed languages has added to what is known about structural variation and language, language learning, and cognitive processing of language.…

The book outlines a framework for teaching second language pragmatics grounded in Vygotskian sociocultural psychology.…

Instead of viewing different perspectives on the self as competing with each other and considering one perspective on the self as being inherently ‘better’ than another, this book takes the view that a fuller, more comprehensive picture of the self in SLA can be gained by examining and combining insights from different perspectives.…

This book addresses how Western universities have constructed themselves as global providers of education, and are driven to be globally competitive.…

This book aims to enable parents in trilingual families to consider possible language strategies on the basis of analysing their individual circumstances.…