Building on the pioneering 2009 volume, Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education, this book reflects the significant expansion in the research since its publication and offers a wider breadth of perspectives on the complex theoretical terrain of race, racism, and antiracism in language education.

Contributors to this book apply a range of conceptual and methodological lenses to teaching diverse world languages. Underscoring the interconnectedness of race and colonialism, world language education, and intersectional ideologies, this book offers a forum for engaged dialogues among teachers, teacher educators, teacher candidates, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, curriculum developers, policymakers, and educational researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including language education. In covering important theoretical frames and constructs—including raciolinguistic and anti-oppressive pedagogies, decoloniality, neoliberalism, and reverse linguistic stereotyping—this book breaks from the Global North norms in applied linguistics and language instruction.

An essential text in TESOL and world language education, this volume weaves meaningful connections among language education, language-in-education policy, and research.

This collection brings together a range of perspectives on multimodal communication in intercultural interaction, bridging cognitive, social, and functional approaches towards promoting cross-disciplinary dialogues and taking research at the intersections of these fields into new directions.

The volume assembles conversationalist, socially oriented, cognitive, and sensory approaches in considering culture as a dynamic construct, co-constituted and (re)negotiated among participants in interaction and filtering it through a multimodal lens, drawing on a　range of　examples, such as educational settings or online video platforms. Each chapter offers a unique perspective on "culture" and "intercultural," while also situating their own definitions of these labels against those of the other chapters. Taken together, the chapters form a fluid conversation on the nature of intercultural encounters in today’s globalizsd world, as digital environments intertwine with the physical mobility of people, encouraging researchers across these fields to adopt a more holistic multimodal perspective to approach intercultural interaction.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in intercultural communication, multimodality, sociolinguistics, cognitive and interactional linguistics, and semiotics.

More than 40 percent of the world’s estimated 7,100+ languages are in danger of disappearing by the end of this century. As with the decline of biodiversity, language loss has been attributed to environmental degradation, developmentalism, and the destruction of Indigenous communities. This book brings together leading experts and younger scholars across the humanities and social sciences to investigate what global language justice looks like in a time of climate crisis. Examining the worldwide loss of linguistic diversity, they develop a new conception of justice to safeguard marginalized languages.

Global Language Justice explores the socioeconomic transformations that both accelerate the decline of minoritized languages and give rise to new possibilities through population movement, unexpected encounters, and technological change. It also critically examines the concepts that are typically deployed to defend linguistic diversity, including human rights, inclusiveness, and equality. Contributors take up topics such as mapping language communities in New York City or how Indigenous innovation challenges notions of linguistic purity. They demonstrate the need to reckon with linguistic diversity in order to achieve a sustainable global economic system and show how the concept of digital vitality can push language justice in new directions. Interspersed with their essays are multilingual works by world-renowned poets and artists that engage with and deepen the book’s themes. Integrating ambitious theoretical exploration with concrete solutions, Global Language Justice offers vital new perspectives on the place of linguistic diversity in ongoing ecological crises.

What does immigration do to our languages and identities? What factors contribute to the maintenance or loss of immigrant languages? This book highlights theoretical and typological issues surrounding heritage language development, specifically focusing on Chinese-speaking communities in the USA. Based on a synthesis of observational, interview, reported, and audio/video data, it builds a composite, serial narrative of immigrant language and life. Through the voices of first- and second-generation immigrants, their family members and their teachers, it highlights the translingual practices and transforming interactional routines of heritage language speakers across various stages of life, and the congruencies between narrated perspectives and lived experiences. It shows that language, culture and identity are intricately interwoven, making it essential reading for students and scholars in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Includes authentic voices of first- and second-generation immigrants
Presents a lifespan view of immigrant language and immigrant language speakers
Written in an accessible, readable way, making it relatable to a broad audience

This authoritative volume is a practical, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research on second and foreign language teaching and learning.

Thorough and reader-friendly, the Handbook is organized logically into six parts that address all major areas of L2/FL teaching and learning:

Part I: Learning Contexts and Language Teaching covers the diverse populations of language learners, their needs, and the challenges they face
Part II: Curriculum and Instruction addresses curriculum and materials design, and includes exemplars of instructional approaches with wide applicability across contexts
Part III: Listening and Speaking overviews listening pedagogy, speaking skills, and pronunciation, among other key topics
Part IV: Reading and Writing includes chapters on all practical matters related to learning to write in another language, with attention to spelling, orthography, extensive reading, and more
Part V: Vocabulary and Grammar discusses assumptions and practical approaches on vocabulary and grammar instruction, with attention to important topics such as academic writing and multiword expressions
Part VI: Intercultural Communication and Pragmatics concludes the Handbook with an examination of language learning across social, cultural, and regional differences

Bringing together leading experts in the field, the contributors offer important perspectives on major, established, and emerging topics. Each chapter overviews important developments, key research, and considerations and applications for effective second language instruction. A well-rounded, readable, and up-to-date resource, the Handbook is a compendium of the ongoing changes, innovations, and practices in L2/FL teaching and learning. It is an essential resource for students, teachers, faculty, and professionals.

La comunicación digital en lengua española se ha investigado en las últimas décadas desde distintos enfoques y metodologías con el objetivo de describir y clasificar las formas discursivas más o menos innovadoras que surgen en las plataformas y aplicaciones que manejamos todos los días.  Con ello se puede reflexionar sobre los efectos que tienen la creación y el acceso permanente a contenidos multimodales y breves en la lengua y en las formas de comunicación privada, así como en otros ámbitos como el de la política, la empresa o el turismo. Ante una realidad en constante evolución, este volumen traza un recorrido histórico sobre los estudios publicados hasta hoy, atendiendo a la coloquialidad de la lengua, los cibergéneros o la (des)cortesía, y ofrece al mismo tiempo un panorama actualizado sobre la reflexión más reciente relacionada con la multimodalidad, el humor o el odio en entornos digitales que hoy están dominados por bots y algoritmos. Asimismo, proporciona una suerte de guía para navegantes que incluye algunas propuestas metodológicas útiles para extraer, anotar y analizar datos digitales, teniendo en cuenta distintos aspectos éticos. El libro se dirige, pues, a quienes quieran profundizar en cualquier aspecto de la comunicación digital y a quienes comunican cotidianamente a través de las redes sociales.

Este libro describe de forma rigurosa, actualizada y didáctica los componentes biológicos que nos permiten aprender y usar las lenguas. Pero las lenguas no son solo resultado de la biología, sino también fenómenos sociales y culturales. Así pues, su segundo objetivo es mostrar cómo la biología y la cultura interactúan de forma compleja para dar lugar a esa especial capacidad humana que llamamos lenguaje.

Tras una introducción que sitúa este ámbito de estudios en su contexto histórico y disciplinar, el libro presenta los principales niveles de estudio del lenguaje desde un punto de vista biológico: el genético, el neurobiológico y el evolutivo. Concluye con un capítulo sobre algunas controversias fundamentales en biolingüística.

Por su carácter multidisciplinar, esta obra es de interés para lingüistas, antropólogos, psicólogos, neurobiólogos, etólogos o prehistoriadores y, en general, para cualquier persona interesada en conocer mejor la fascinante y compleja naturaleza del lenguaje.

El género constituye un factor que afecta a la comunicación, pero interactúa con muchos otros y el analista debe dar cuenta de esta realidad múltiple. La mujer es líder en diversos campos y para ello, como profesional capacitada, utiliza todos los medios a su alcance para configurar su comunicación en función de lo que exige la situación. Dominar el juego de imágenes y creación de identidades es fundamental en los diferentes contextos en los que se maneja. El volumen pretende abordar todos estos aspectos desde varios enfoques metodológicos: historiografía, análisis del discurso ideológico, sociopragmática (teoría de la imagen social), análisis crítico del discurso o sociolingüística. Asimismo, investiga la conexión entre cambio lingüístico y cambio social; de este modo, a partir de estudios empíricos, aborda el discurso femenino de manera objetiva y sin prejuicios, evidenciando la inconsistencia de los estereotipos que ligan a la mujer a la inseguridad discursiva.

Español académico esencial es una guía práctica para todas aquellas personas que necesiten expresarse con corrección, por escrito u oralmente, en el contexto académico.

El libro ofrece más de 1000 estructuras y fórmulas lingüísticas y comunicativas útiles para redactar un trabajo académico-científico, o bien para preparar una presentación oral, organizadas todas ellas siguiendo las fases sucesivas que conlleva un proyecto de investigación. Se trata de una obra sumamente práctica que incluye, para facilitar el autoaprendizaje, 120 ejercicios con sus correspondientes soluciones. Tanto los numerosos ejemplos como las actividades propuestas ayudan a los lectores a abordar las distintas tareas propias del entorno académico, tales como escribir una tesis o un artículo. Además, en el libro se proporcionan claves acerca de cómo elegir y combinar al vocabulario apropiado, reproduciendo, asimismo, muestras de diferentes textos académicos.

Al estar centrada en los rasgos del discurso académico-científico comunes en gran medida al ámbito docente, al de la investigación y al laboral, la obra ayudará a los hablantes de español, tanto nativos como no nativos con nivel de lengua avanzado, a dominar el español académico-científico necesario para desenvolverse en cualquiera de esas esferas.