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A Pandemic to Remember: Best Practices in an Online Language Acquisition Methods Course
With the surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, teacher education courses were forced to move online creating challenges to teacher education programs. At a...
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Fuzziness and Violation of Norms in Chinese Legislative Language
China has the largest population in the world and is also a major legislation power. Since the reform and opening up more than 30 years ago, people’s...
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Technology in Chinese Language Teaching
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the use of technology in Chinese language teaching and learning in the past 120 years, tracing its...
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Technology in Chinese Language Teaching
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the use of technology in Chinese language teaching and learning in the past 120 years, tracing its...
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China Language Strategies
The studies of language strategy emerged as a new area of research in China in the twenty-first century. At the beginning, the studies were generally...
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Preservice Chinese Language Teachers’ Conceptions of Assessment in New Zealand
Teachers’ conceptions of assessment are powerful in influencing the quality of their teaching practices. In the New Zealand (NZ) context, there has...
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Language Tasks
This chapter provides an overview of those concepts and theories in connection with tasks that are the most relevant to the empirical studies which...
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Ideology, Investment, and Identity in Chinese Language Learning: Past, Present, and Future
Due to the large-scale emigration of Chinese-speaking populations to locations in Anglophone countries, Chinese has been a popular additional...
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Reflective Writing and Self-assessment of Language Teaching Performance
Studies have shown that novice teachers’ reflective writing tends to be descriptive and justificatory, without much connection to theory and practice...
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Implicit language policy in ethnic minority migrant community in urban China: a study of the linguistic landscape of “Little Lhasa”
A key focus of linguistic landscape research is the interaction among local language policies, the visibility of minority languages on public...
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Pre-service Teachers’ Professional Identity and Representations of English as a Foreign Language: Toward a Dominant Language (Teaching) Constellation?
This chapter describes and analyses EFL student teachers’ representations of EFL teaching and their identity as teachers by resorting to visual...
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University Students’ Beliefs About the Language Requirement: Policy as Articulated and as Perceived
Many university students in the USA stop studying world languages after satisfying their institution’s curricular requirement (Looney & Lusin, 2019;...
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Dominant Language Constellations, Identity, and Awareness: a posse ad esse
This chapter summarizes the theoretical novelty and practical implications offered in the volume. Theoretical findings refer to expanding the...
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Assessment of Iran’s Language Planning: Results
In the following chapter, I will categorize and then analyze the data. This will allow me to assess the flexibility of Persian morphology in coining...
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The Intersection of Philosophy and Linguistics in Understanding Language Pathologies
This chapter delves into the main theses of theoretical pragmatics, introduces the terms of the debate between minimalism and contextualism, and...
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Language Policy and Planning in Romani
This chapter outlines language policy and planning (LLP) efforts in Romani, where linguistic, geographical and sociocultural heterogeneity pose...
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Language Policy: From Ideology to Inequality
This chapter outlines the key theoretical anchor points used throughout the book, drawing together ideas, stances and approaches from critical...
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Creating a Sustainable Mandarin Language Programme in an Aotearoa New Zealand Primary School: Complexities and Achievements
This chapter focuses on how one primary school successfully developed a sustainable Mandarin language programme in Aotearoa New Zealand’s biggest...
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Effective Family Language Policies and Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages: Parental Language Governance in Indigenous and Diasporic Contexts
This chapter examines the rise of grassroots level actors (i.e., parents) who play a significant role in interpreting and implementing top-down...