Multilingual Matters

The seventh edition of this bestselling textbook has been extensively revised and updated to provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to...

The seventh edition of this bestselling textbook has been extensively revised and updated to provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to...

Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all ...

Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak th...

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the assessment of students in K-12 schools who use two or more languages in their daily life: Engl...

This book showcases the experiences of researchers conducting complexity research in situated educational contexts. The chapters present practical ...

The comprehension, retention and production of idiomatic expressions is one of the most difficult areas of the lexicon for second language learners...

This ethnographic drama script is adapted from observations conducted in a large city centre library in the UK. It is a creative curation of field ...

This book examines translanguaging as a resource which can disrupt the privileging of particular voices, and a social practice which enables collab...

This book brings together many insights about the influences of one language upon another in language learning. Its accessible discussions explore ...

This book draws on case studies of language management within British organisations to examine the decisions they make about language diversity in ...

This ethnographic drama script is adapted from observations conducted in a large city centre library in the UK. It is a creative curation of field ...

This book explores discourses of foreign language education in Ireland. It adopts a critical approach to SLA, examining the complex interplay betwe...

The chapters in this volume, all written by experts in the field, present an array of new research on second language acquisition (SLA) that touche...

This book examines the use of tasks in second language instruction in a variety of international contexts, and addresses the need for a better unde...

Each chapter in this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context....

How do teachers, who have chosen to settle down in one country, manage the difficulties of living and teaching English in that country? This book a...

This volume aims to understand how language teacher educators around the world continue developing professionally by examining their own teaching p...

The edited volume contributes to the comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the global ELT landscape in instructional settings within and acr...

The edited volume contributes to the comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the global ELT landscape in instructional settings within and acr...

This book presents research focused on young emergent bilingual children's multimodal meaning-making processes in diverse cultural and linguistic s...

This book presents research focused on young emergent bilingual children's multimodal meaning-making processes in diverse cultural and linguistic s...

This volume provides a detailed account of the practical use of Assessment for Learning (AfL) in primary language classrooms. It gives an in-depth ...

This book presents a study of literacy practices and language use of students of Japanese outside of the classroom, both in class-related and volun...

Este libro ofrece un acercamiento a la sociolinguistica, centrandose en el espanol hablado en los Estados Unidos. Se examina la historia del espano...

In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of ...

This book unites chapters from the leaders of the language learning motivation field and demonstrates how Gardner's work is integral to a wide rang...

This book explores the impact of the spread of English on language teaching and learning. It provides a framework for change in the way English is ...

This book aims to empower teachers working with adult migrants who have had little or no prior formal schooling, and give them the information and ...

This book critically analyzes early school foreign language teaching policy and practice across six geographical contexts. Criticizing the worldwid...

This book provides practical ideas for how children, young people and parents can feel welcomed and affirmed in their multilingual identities and a...

This book provides practical ideas for how children, young people and parents can feel welcomed and affirmed in their multilingual identities and a...

This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of a practical introduction to intercultural education for teachers of English as a seco...

Using data from a long-term ethnographic study of English language classrooms in a South African township, this book conceptualises language teachi...

Reducere. This book introduces readers to basic concepts of sociolinguistics with a focus on Spanish in the US. The coverage goes beyond linguistics to exami...

This book shows the transformative power of placing translanguaging at the center of teaching and learning. It shows how the centering of racialize...

Drawing on a digital ethnography of Chinese international students' first semester languaging practices, this book examines how they use their mult...

This textbook offers an introductory overview of eight hotly-debated topics in second language acquisition research. It offers a glimpse of how SLA...

This book presents empirical research which investigates directed motivational currents (DMCs) in the context of second language learning and motiv...

This book presents original research on the effects of foreign language anxiety (FLA) on young language learners. It includes suggestions for allev...

This book offers an evidence-based guide to EAL for everyone who works with multilingual learners. It offers a concise introduction to the latest r...

This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as it is currently understood in language education and research. It challenges th...

This book offers a detailed account of the success of young immersion learners of Irish in becoming competent speakers of the minority language. Th...

This book provides a contemporary and critical examination of the theoretical and pedagogical impact of Michael Byram's pioneering work on intercul...

This book offers an evidence-based guide to EAL for everyone who works with multilingual learners. It offers a concise introduction to the latest r...

The book shows how English has been newly constituted as a dominant language in post-market reform India. Political economic transitions experience...

The book shows how English has been newly constituted as a dominant language in post-market reform India. Political economic transitions experience...

This book brings applied linguistics and translation studies together through an analysis of literary texts in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean ...

This book provides a contemporary and critical examination of the theoretical and pedagogical impact of Michael Byram's pioneering work on intercul...

This book examines both writing norms and assessment, and proficiency development, and suggests that scholars need to critically examine testing re...

This book takes a critical perspective of research on assessing speaking in second and foreign languages. Chapters focus on the complexity brought ...

Due to its theoretical and educational significance within the language learning process, the study of L2 motivation has been an important area of ...

This book presents the latest research on the role of strategy use and development in second and foreign language teaching and learning. It will eq...

This book provides an in-depth look into the systemic undereducation of high school English learners and the role of high schools in limiting ELs' ...

This book takes a critical perspective of research on assessing speaking in second and foreign languages. Chapters focus on the complexity brought ...

Through the application of self-determination theory (SDT) to research and practice, this book deepens our understanding of how autonomous language...

This book adopts a raciolinguistic perspective to examine the ways in which dual language education programs in the US often reinforce the racial i...

Through the application of self-determination theory (SDT) to research and practice, this book deepens our understanding of how autonomous language...

This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of...

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the use of patient-/person-centred communication in providing health care for ageing populations thr...

This edited book expands the current scholarship on teaching world languages for social justice and equity in K-12 and postsecondary contexts in th...

This edited book expands the current scholarship on teaching world languages for social justice and equity in K-12 and postsecondary contexts in th...

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approac...

This book provides an overview and evaluation of the quality of bilingual education found in internationalised higher education institutions. Its a...

This book focuses on the nexus of language, disciplinary content and knowledge communication against the background of Higher Education's current p...

This book discusses the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its Companion Volume on curricula, teaching/learning...

This book presents a critique of current English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF) practices using research conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina. T...

This book discusses the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its Companion Volume on curricula, teaching/learning...

This book contextualizes open education in foreign language (FL) learning and teaching; fills a gap in the research by exploring aspects of open se...

This revised edition of Michael Byram's classic 1997 book updates the text in the light of both recent research and critiques and commentaries on t...