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MLA Language Enrollment Trends
This chapter examines various trends in the Modern Language Association (MLA) language enrollment census over the long span of its existence, from...
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Online Worldreviewer Language Spaces (OWLS): Integrating Decolonizing Technology and Heritage Language Pedagogy in TESOL
Technology is not neutral; it is an extension of a knowledge system. A fundamental issue in discussing the role of technology in Teaching English to...
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Culture in English Language Teaching: Let the Language Do the Talking
In this chapter I demonstrate how corpus linguistics can be harnessed in English language teaching to raise awareness of the embeddedness of culture...
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The History and Development of Assessment of Chinese as a Second Language
This chapter discusses assessments of Chinese as a second language (CSL), tracing the development of a comprehensive system to assess non-native...
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The History and Development of Assessment of Chinese as a Second Language
This chapter discusses assessments of Chinese as a second language (CSL), tracing the development of a comprehensive system to assess non-native...
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The Language Situation in Macao
In Macao, the dynamic interplay of the local, national, and global forces prevails across all sectors from politics to economy to education. At the...
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Develo** Learning-Oriented Language Assessment Literacy in Pre-service Language Teachers
This study used Rasch analysis to investigate Learning-Oriented Assessment (LOA) on the Cambridge CELTA course, a short pre-service training course...
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Syrian Parents’ Strategies in Language Maintenance
Chapter 3 has established that Syrian parents in Malaysia value the Malay language but their primary emphasis is on learning English for education,...
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Future Directions in English Language Teacher Education in a Changing World
This concluding chapter begins by reviewing language teacher education and professional development options, touching on themes in the preceding...
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Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
There is a close relationship between language and cognition. This is a common topic that linguists, psychologists, philosophers, and educators...
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Advances in Second/Foreign Language Acquisition
This book includes studies that employ a variety of research techniques from diverse fields targeting a better understanding of the second language...
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Willingness to Lead: A Framework for Language Teacher Leadership Development
What makes teachers want to lead? And what prevents them from doing so? In this introductory chapter I introduce a new concept, Willingness to Lead...
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Portuguese Language Program Evaluation
This short chapter describes the implementation and results of an ongoing Portuguese program evaluation project at the University of Arizona...
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Chinese Comprehensive Language Knowledge Base
Natural language processing (NLP) aims to enable computers to understand human language and, moreover, to interact with humans to obtain information...
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Language Policy as Public Policy
This chapter presents and discusses the public policy approach to language policy and planning (LPP). The chapter critically examines the idea...
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Becoming a Content and Language Integrated Learning Specialist: Exploring the Voices of English Language Teachers in Uruguay
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become one of the preferred approaches in many public and private second and foreign language...
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The Dynamics of Dominant Language Constellations: Moments of Linguistic ‘Ecological Transition’ as Portrayed by Pre-service Language Teachers
Individual language biographies have been associated to students’ and preservice teachers’ language awareness and willingness to engage in...
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Teacher-Generated Instructional Materials for Integrating Content and Language Learning: Actualizing the Translanguaging for English Language Learners
Content teachers often struggle to help English language learners (ELLs) demonstrate a more profound understanding and analysis of the subject...
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Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching A Machine-Generated Literature Overview
This book is the result of a collaboration between a human editor and an artificial intelligence algorithm to create a machine-generated literature...
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Theorising Language and Dialect Death
This chapter provides a detailed account of the various factors (internal, external, extralinguistic) that condition language variation and change,...