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Towards Socio-material Research Approaches in Language Education
This chapter outlines the socio-material framing of the book that it opens. We situate this volume materially not only in the discipline of applied...
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Publish or Perish?: Voices from Kevin
This chapter presents an analysis of Kevin’s professional identityIdentity as an applied linguistics teacher and researcher in a research-oriented...
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An Ecological Perspective for Critical Action in Applied Linguistics
In this chapter, we argue that critical perspectives focused on resisting oppression fail to recognize the stratified nature of language education...
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Assessing Second Language Pronunciation
Pronunciation assessment (PA) is a resurgent subfield within applied linguistics that traverses the domains of psycholinguistics, second language...
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Develo** a Skills-Based Language Anxiety Instrument: A Study Using Rasch Analysis
This chapter presents the process of develo** a quantitative tool that attempts to measure foreign language anxiety from a language skills’...
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Centering Multilingual Learners and Countering Racism in Teacher Education
This chapter begins with a critical overview of 15 years’ worth of scholarship on preparing teachers to work with multilingual learners. The...
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Noam Chomsky: A Lifelong View from the Precipice
Few American thinkers have held as renowned a standing and widely acknowledged expertise on such a broad range of topics as Noam Chomsky. Chomsky’s...
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Handbook of Literacy in Africa
This volume highlights the shortcomings concerning literacy development in Africa and collates the current available literature based on empirical...
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Unconscious Motivation
A cursory look at the literature is enough to convince the reader that motivation research is an increasingly flourishing area in applied...
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Hildegard von Bingen: An Educational Visionary for Our Time
Saint Hildegard von Bingen was a polymath who lived as a nun during the twelfth century. Her astonishing work takes on the topics of religion, music,...
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Methodological Approaches to Examining Multimodal Composing
This chapter illustrates key methodological approaches to examining multimodal composing. The first part of the chapter describes the four dominant...
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Endangered Species “Bilingualism”? How We Spin Constructs to Suit Our Purposes
In linguistics, as in all scientific fields, it is important to clearly define constructs. Whilst some are less disputable, others, especially those...
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Reframing and Broadening Adversarial Stylometry for Academic Integrity
Adversarial stylometry can be a form of academic fraud that involves the deceptive manipulation of text through manual, hybrid, or automatic...
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Unpacking the function(s) of discourse markers in academic spoken English: a corpus-based study
Discourse markers can have various functions depending on the context in which they are used. Taking this into consideration, in this corpus-based...
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Investigating Writing Processes with Keystroke Logging
Already in the 1970s, researchers in linguistics and psychology became interested in understanding how written language production worked, why...
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Exploring the typology of reasoning influencing university teachers’ language teaching and learning strategies
Despite the critical role of reasoning in sha** language teaching and learning strategies in higher education, prior studies have either separately...
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Analysing Multimodal Texts in Science—a Social Semiotic Perspective
Teaching and learning in science disciplines are dependent on multimodal communication. Earlier research implies that students may be challenged when...
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Corpora in the Classroom
Corpus Linguistics (CL) is a research approach to the empirical investigation of language variation and use, utilizing a quantifiable collection of...
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Translation and Own-Language Use in Language Teaching The Quest for Optimal Practice
This book reconsiders the role of translation and own-language use in the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classroom. It shows prospective...
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Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency (CAF)
In applied linguistics, second language acquisition (SLA) and language education research, complexity, accuracy and fluency (henceforth CAF) have...