Author: Marianne Nikolov
Publisher: Multilingual Matter
Keywords: second, language, acquisition, outcomes, processes, modern, foreign, languages, learning
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-03-15
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1847691455
ISBN-13: 9781847691453

Modern languages are taught to young learners at an increasingly early age, yet few publications focus on what is available to children in different contexts and classrooms. This book represents the state-of-the-art in research on young language learners. Covering a range of languages, contexts and research methods, it provides insights into how young learners progress.

Author: Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher: Multilingual Matter
Keywords: bilingual, education, bilingualism, approaches, interdisciplinary, mental, lexicon
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1847691250
ISBN-13: 9781847691255

How are words organized in the bilingual mind? How are they linked to concepts? How do bi- and multilinguals process words in their multiple languages? Contributions to this volume offer up-to-date answers to these questions and provide a detailed introduction to interdisciplinary approaches used to investigate the bilingual lexicon.

Author: Michael Byram
Publisher: Multilingual Matter
Keywords: education, intercultural, languages, reflections, communication, citizenship, language, foreign, essays
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 1847690793
ISBN-13: 9781847690791

This collection of essays analyses the evolution of theory of intercultural competence and its relationship to education for citizenship. It does so by analysing the concepts of intercultural competence, including the notion of the intercultural speaker, by discussing the ways in which language education policy develops and by comparing the theories and purposes of foreign language education and education for citizenship.

Author: James Nola
Publisher: Multilingual Matter
Keywords: world, real, interpreting, professional, interpretation
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-04-26
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1853597902
ISBN-13: 9781853597909

This book provides a structured syllabus and an overview of interpretation accompanied by exercises in the main aspects of the art. It is meant as a practical guide for interpreters and as a complement to interpreter training programmes, particularly for students preparing for conference interpreting in international governmental and business settings.

Author: Gavin Jack
Publisher: Multilingual Matter
Keywords: tourism, change, cultural, exchange, intercultural
Number of Pages: 181
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $56.95
ISBN-10: 1845410173
ISBN-13: 9781845410179

This book asks the question; why is it that tourism matters? It looks at how it is we do tourism and learn to be tourists when we are on holiday. Tourism is a dynamic way of being that may facilitate or hinder intercultural exchange. The ways in which we do tourism and the places in which we are tourists raise practical, material and emotional questions about tourist life. These questions are at the heart of this book. This book draws on both empirical work and a range of theoretical frameworks, arguing that tourism matters precisely because of the lessons it can teach us about living everyday

Author: Melanie K Smith
Publisher: Multilingual Matter
Keywords: cultural, tourism, change, changing, world
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-10-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1845410432
ISBN-13: 9781845410438

At the interface between culture and tourism lies a series of deep and challenging issues relating to how we deal with issues of political engagement, social justice, economic change, belonging, identity and meaning. This book introduces researchers, students and practitioners to a range of interesting and complex debates regarding the political and social implications of cultural tourism in a changing world. Concise and thematic theoretical sections provide the framework for a range of case studies, which contextualise and exemplify the issues raised. Emphasis is placed on politics and policy

Author: Michael Byram
Publisher: Multilingual Matter
Keywords: multilingual, mattersn, series, competence, communicative, assessing, intercultural, teaching
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1998-12-03
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 185359377X
ISBN-13: 9781853593772

Foreign and second language teaching should prepare learners to use a language with fluency and accuracy, and also to speak with people who have different cultural identities, social values and behaviours. This text aims to define precisely what competencies are required, how these can be included in teachers’ objectives and methods, and how the ability to communicate across cultural differences can be assessed.