Book description
The series Trends in Applied Linguistics meets the challenges of the rapidly growing field of applied linguistics. In a very broad sense, applied linguistics is understoodby focusing on the application of theoretical linguistics to current problems arising in different contexts of human society. Given the interdisciplinary character of applied linguistics, the series includes cognitive, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives.
The following topicsare included in the series:
- Second language acquisition and the acquisition of additional languages
- Bilingual and multilingual education
- Language planning and language policy
- Literacy skills
- Second/foreign language pedagogy
- Translation and interpretation
- Language for specific purposes
- Discourse analysis
- Language testing and assessment
- Child language
- Language and gender
- Pragmatics and rhetorics
- Corpus analysis
- Critical pedagogies
- Research methodology in applied linguistics
- Language and technology
Table of contents
- Trends in Applied Linguistics
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction: The interplay of languages, cultures, and minds
- 2 First language acquisition and early cognitive development
- 3 Formation of concepts and plausibility structures
- 4 Language and the intersubjective construction of meaning
- 5 Imposing structure on language-in-use: From language philosophy to discourse analysis
- 6 The dynamics of identity
- 7 The complexities of culture
- 8 The interplay of cultures: Constructs of interculture
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9 Fostering intercultural competence in the second language classroom
- 9.1 The role of the first language in second language learning
- 9.2 Translating and interlanguage
- 9.3 Metaphoric competence
- 9.4 Efforts of stabilizing linguistic and sociocultural context
- 9.5 Learning culture in the zone of proximal development
- 9.6 Second language learning and its effects on learnersâ minds
- 10 Mediating and assessing intercultural competence in the L2 classroom
- 11 Conclusion
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
Product information
- Title: Blending Spaces
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2014
- Publisher(s): De Gruyter Mouton
- ISBN: 9781501500787
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