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Oratory as Communication Setup (II): Towards a Typology That Incorporates Technological Mediation
This chapter investigates the new setups that result when oratory combines with technological mediation, via either electronic or digital media. The...
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Results: Aspects of Modern Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education
In this chapter, I analyse the results of questions 1, 4, 5 and 6 on the survey about intercultural competence and pragmatics that was given to the...
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Teacher and Learner Language Use
The chapter introduces the last indicator of the model: Teacher and Learner Language Use. It explains why it is important for teachers to adjust...
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Language with the Wider Family
The linguistic and cultural differences between an IC do not just affect the two people in the couple: the couple’s children, respective families,...
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Longitudinal effects of socioeconomic status on first and second language reading development: evidence from Chinese children learning English
While it has been shown that socioeconomic status (SES) is important for children’s literacy development in their first language (L1), less is known...
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When There Is a Language Issue
This chapter deals with language difficulties in emergency calls due to the fact that the caller is not a speaker of the call-taker’s language and...
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Architecture is like a Language
The semiotic theory of Peirce is discussed in this second chapter, with regard to how looking at architecture through a Peircean lens prompts one to...
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Introduction: Towards a Discursive Approach to Mediation
As the source of air and space intelligence for the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) produces...
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Dominant Language Constellation and Plurilingual Awareness: The Case of Student Language Teachers in Greece
This study explores the journey from an unconscious multiple monoglossy towards an awareness of the plurilingual self of fourteen students from two...
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The effects of foreign language anxiety on English word reading among Chinese students at risk of English learning difficulties
Foreign language anxiety has influenced reading achievement in English as a second language learning (ESL). However, less is known about how foreign...
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Incorporating Informal e-Learning into Foreign Language Teaching Through Collaborative Personalization
Modern education, more often than not, takes the path of personalization of the learning process. This personalization is better achieved through...
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Guidelines and Recommendations for Raising Cross-language Awareness in TLA
In the final chapter, I summarise the results of the empirical study and put the empirical findings into practice by presenting guidelines and...
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Painting a World Before Language Using Language: A Cognitive Stylistic Analysis of Synaesthetic Metaphors in the Imagery of Keki Daruwalla’s “Before the Word”
This chapter explores the aesthetic effects of synaesthetic metaphors in Keki Daruwalla’s lesser-known poem “Before the Word” by employing a...
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Unit 2: Language and Communication in Education 1
This unit focuses on language as used in the specific context of learning and teaching. It deals with the ways in which a person’s cognitive...
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Signing Deaf Communities and Language Brokering
This chapter provides introductory information to situate this book in three interlocking disciplines that frame the discussions of sign language...
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The Making of Future School Mediators: Using Digital Narratives for Mediation Purposes
This chapter explores mediation competence through the design and implementation of a classroom intervention with a group of 28 pre-service teachers....
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Understanding the Implications of Sign Language Brokering
This chapter draws together the findings and discussion from Chaps. 4 , 5...
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The impact of teacher academic support and L2 writing self on feedback-seeking behavior
The literature has revealed the impact of personal factors on feedback-seeking behavior (FSB) in second language (L2) writing. However, little is...
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The Role of a Mother and Siblings in Enhancing Two Young Iranian EFL Students’ Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language Through Serious Game Play
Many studies have demonstrated that commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) games can foster learners’ second language (L2) willingness to communicate (WTC)....
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Muslim Women and Language Ideological Debates
This chapter highlights the dominant representation of Muslim women as voiceless in the Western media and introduces how such stereotypical...