Author: James Crawford
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: bilingual, education, bilingualism, essays, selected, english, learners, advocating
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1847690734
ISBN-13: 9781847690739

A collection of 18 essays addressing the policy and politics of educating English language learners. Subjects include demographic change and its educational implications, American responses to language diversity, public controversies over bilingual education, high-stakes testing and its impact on English language learners, and the precarious status of language rights in the USA.

Authors:Piotr Kuhiwczak, Karin Littau,
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: translation, topics, studies, companion
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1853599565
ISBN-13: 9781853599569

- Presents authoritative contributions from leading scholars in the field - Takes the reader through the basic theoretical concepts, issues and themes which define the most important approaches to translation - Provides an unparalleled work of reference for teaching and researching in Translation Studies - Offers pointers to the future of Translation Studies - Contains an up-to-date bibliography with suggestions for further reading

Author: Aramberri
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: tourism, aspects, development
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2005-01-03
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 1873150962
ISBN-13: 9781873150962

Key Features: - A multidisciplinary approach to current topics - Examines threats to tourism development - Concludes with a look at the future of tourism development This book takes a multidisciplinary look at various hot issues in present day tourism development, including studying how global the industry has become; new forms of travel like space tourism; new trends in marketing and promotion. It also deals with the threats posed to tourism development by wars, global terrorism, and epidemics and concludes with an optimistic view of the industry’s resilience.

Author: Adele Ladkin
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: tourism, aspects, planning, analysis, employment, amp
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2002-04-11
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 187315030X
ISBN-13: 9781873150306

This text is an attempt to understand tourism employment in a holistic way. Using ideas from labour economics, work psychology and industrial sociology, the authors look at tourism employment in both its workplace context and its wider economic and social environment and attempt to tell a coherent story. Both behavioural and economic perspectives are used to address questions that are salient to manpower planning, education planning and tourism management. By examining the diversity and commonality within occupations against the background of a dynamic labour market, the text develops themes t

Author: James Milton
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: acquisition, language, second, vocabulary, measuring
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 1847692079
ISBN-13: 9781847692078

Measuring Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition describes the effect that word frequency and lexical coverage have on learning and communication in a foreign language. It examines the tools we have for assessing the various facets of vocabulary knowledge, the scores these produce, and the way these are tied to exam and communicative performance.

Author: Anwei Feng
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: bilingual, education, concepts, bilingualism, practices, china, policies
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2007-06-15
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1853599913
ISBN-13: 9781853599910

This work compares and contrasts two strands of bilingualism in China, one for minority nationality groups, the other for majority. It examines the history, policy, philosophy, politics, provision and practice in bilingual, trilingual or multilingual education involving Mandarin Chinese, English, and minority languages. This volume brings a mixed group of researchers together to discuss issues in bilingual or trilingual education for the majority and minority nationality groups in China and to explore the relationship between the two. Articles range from reports of bilingual or trilingual educ

Author: Corbett
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: topics, translation, nation, scott, language, written
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1853594318
ISBN-13: 9781853594311

Although much work has been published on certain aspects of translation into Scots, this timely book is the first comprehensive account of Scots translations from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. From the period before Gavin Douglas’s translation of the Aeneid to John Byrne’s recent adaptation of Gogol’s The Government Inspector, this survey argues that translation plays a central role in the development of literature in Scots, lending authority to the vernacular, and extending the stylistic range open to writers in Scots.