Introducing Multilingualism: A Social Approach

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This innovative comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to expl... This innovative comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills. Drawing on authentic real-life examples of pragmatic breakdown in children and adults who have developmental or acquired... more

A social studies educator and a literacy educator have come together to combin... A social studies educator and a literacy educator have come together to combine their years of classroom experience to create a text that illustrates a strong succesful classroom-based and reflective approach to teaching social studies. Dealing with... more

Energize the social studies curriculum and implement national and many state s... Energize the social studies curriculum and implement national and many state standards. Each of these 33 units offers book summaries social studies topic areas critical thinking questions and dozens of easy-to-do activities. CONDITION – USED: Books... more

Illustrates a modalities approach to the study of publics Illustrates a modalities approach to the study of publics more

Intercultural Communication illustrates the dynamic role intercultural communi... Intercultural Communication illustrates the dynamic role intercultural communication plays today in social problems the workplace health care settings mass media and history through a layered and contextualized perspective. Interpersonal communication... more

Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieti... Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language a pidgin or a Creole will develop and how can we understand the ways in which different... more

This book provides a critical account of the development of questions approach... This book provides a critical account of the development of questions approaches methods and understandings of literacy within and across disciplines and interdisciplines. It provides a critique of literacy studies including the New Literacy Studies.... more

This textbook provides an accessible overview of the field of sociolinguistics... This textbook provides an accessible overview of the field of sociolinguistics. Blending qualitative and quantitative approaches and including examples drawn from different contexts and societies all over the world the author introduces progressively... more

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach to the stud... Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse which views language as a form of social practice and focuses on the ways social and political domination is reproduced by text and talk. and Norman Fairclough... more

This is the first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the rela... This is the first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the relationships among leadership ethnicity and language use. Taking a social constructionist approach to the ways in which leadership is enacted through discourse Leadership... more

The realities of new technological and social conditions since the 1990s deman... The realities of new technological and social conditions since the 1990s demand a new approach to literacy teaching. Looking onward from the original statement of aims of the multiliteracies movement in 1996 this volume brings together top-quality... more

Combining the main findings methods and analytic techniques of this central ap... Combining the main findings methods and analytic techniques of this central approach to language and social interaction along with real-life examples and step-by-step explanations Conversation Analysis is the ideal student guide to the field.... more

Provides teachers a practical and powerful way to connect academics with socia... Provides teachers a practical and powerful way to connect academics with social emotional learning using classroom anecdotes combined with anchor charts and student writing -- The CoreEmpathy approach and accompanying lessons are designed to cultivate... more