Charlie Farrington & Janneke Van Hofwegen 
African American Language [PDF ebook] 
Language development from Infancy to Adulthood

Wang presents the status quo of curriculum development in professional interpreting programmes in China and points to the urgency to devise a curriculum improvement model to ensure the relevance …

Now in its fifth edition, the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts–sponsored by the International Literacy Association and the National Council of Teachers of English–remains …

The ability to use language in more literate ways has always been a central outcome of education. Today, however, ‘being literate’ requires more than functional literacy, the recognition of printed w …

This series, Children’s Language, reflects the conviction that extensive work on entirely new fronts along with a great deal of reinterpretation of old-front data will be necessary before any persuas …

This book critically reflects on the challenges faced by refugee aspirant professionals in securing employment and the ways in which professional intercultural competence development and attendant la …

The use of language corpora as a resource in linguistics and language-related disciplines is now well-established. One of the many fields where the impact of corpora has been growing in recent years …

Modes of Censorship and Translation articulates a variety of scholarly and disciplinary perspectives and offers the reader access to the widening cultural debate on translation and censorship, includ …

The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the core and current language-related issues in educational contexts. Bringing together the expertise and voices o …

Translating Culture Specific References on Television provides a model for investigating the problems posed by culture specific references in translation, drawing on case studies that explore the tra …

As the crow flies””, ””chunder””, ””cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey””, ””three sheets to the wind”” – many terms like these are used in everyday English language conv …