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Download this eBook Challenges of Second and Foreign Language Education in a Globalized World
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Challenges of Second and Foreign Language Education in a Globalized World


Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak , Miroslaw Pawlak


This edited collection brings together papers by eminent scholars who attempt to demonstrate how challenges can most successfully be ameliorated with an eye to enhancing the effectiveness of the processes of language teaching and learning. In Part One, emphasis is...

Publication date: 2017-09-07
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Download this eBook Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self: Literature and Culture Studies
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Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self: Literature and Culture Studies


Leszek Drong , Jacek Mydla , Malgorzata Poks


This edited collection explores the conjunction of multiculturalism and the self in literature and culture studies, and brings together essays by prominent researchers interested in literature and culture whose critical perspectives inform discussions of specific...

Publication date: 2017-07-31
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Download this eBook Communicative Behaviour of a Language Learner
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Communicative Behaviour of a Language Learner


Dagmara Galajda


This book investigates and analyzes the way in which factors such as communication apprehension, self-perceived communicative competence and group dynamics influence the communicative behavior of a foreign-language learner. It also focuses on interpersonal...

Publication date: 2017-06-16
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Download this eBook Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self
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Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self


Danuta Gabrys-Barker , Dagmara Galajda , Adam Wojtaszek , Pawel Zakrajewski


This book offers several insights into cross-cultural and multilingual learning, drawing upon recent research within two main areas: Language Studies and Multilingual Language Learning/Teaching. It places particular emphasis on the Polish learning environment and Poles...

Publication date: 2017-05-11
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Download this eBook At the Crossroads: Challenges of Foreign Language Learning
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At the Crossroads: Challenges of Foreign Language Learning


Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel , Elzbieta Szymanska-Czaplak , Magdalena Szyszka


This book offers a valuable contribution to the discussion on the complexities of L2 learning processes that pose a challenge to learners. Focusing on the cognitive, affective and socio-cultural perspectives, the papers included provide important insights into the...

Publication date: 2017-04-21
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Download this eBook Revisiting EFL Assessment
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Revisiting EFL Assessment


Faisal Al-Maamari , Rahma Al-Mahrooqi , Christine Coombe , Vijay Thakur


This book examines acknowledged practices and demonstrates to teachers how to make the most out of their assessment practices. It also explores different assessment methods for skills such as reading, writing, listening and speaking. Forecasting the future of assessment...

Publication date: 2017-01-10
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Download this eBook Pronunciation Learning Strategies and Language Anxiety
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Pronunciation Learning Strategies and Language Anxiety


Magdalena Szyszka


This book presents theoretical considerations and the results of empirical research on pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) deployed by pre-service trainee teachers majoring in English as a foreign language who experienced different levels of language anxiety (LA)....

Publication date: 2016-12-29
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Download this eBook Autonomy in Second Language Learning: Managing the Resources
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Autonomy in Second Language Learning: Managing the Resources


Jakub Bielak , Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak , Miroslaw Pawlak


The present volume brings together papers devoted to the role of learner and teacher autonomy in the process of second and foreign language learning, which have been contributed by scholars from Poland and abroad.The book has been divided into three parts in accordance...

Publication date: 2016-12-28
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Download this eBook Homo Ludens as a Comic Character in Selected American Films
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Homo Ludens as a Comic Character in Selected American Films


Artur Skweres


This book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expanding the theories developed by Johan Huizinga in his classic study Homo Ludens (1938) and Roger Caillois in Les jeux et les hommes (1958). To...

Publication date: 2016-10-25
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Download this eBook Working with Text and Around Text in Foreign Language Environments
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Working with Text and Around Text in Foreign Language Environments


Halina Chodkiewicz , Malgorzata Krzeminska-Adamek , Piotr Steinbrich


This book investigates the three pivotal points of text for foreign language acquisition: reception, construction and deconstruction. In Part One, the focus is on various aspects of text reception, such as developing literacy, text interest, and perceptions of the...

Publication date: 2016-06-28
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Download this eBook Positive Psychology Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
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Positive Psychology Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching


Danuta Gabrys-Barker , Dagmara Galajda


This book introduces readers to the principles of a fairly new branch of psychology – positive psychology – and demonstrates how they can be applied in the context of second language acquisition in a natural environment and in instructed foreign language (FL) learning....

Publication date: 2016-05-23
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Download this eBook Classroom-Oriented Research
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Classroom-Oriented Research


Miroslaw Pawlak


This collection gathers contributions from scholars from Poland and abroad addressing different facets of research into the processes of foreign-language and second-language learning and teaching as they transpire in a typical language classroom. The book is divided...

Publication date: 2016-04-30
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Download this eBook Researching Second Language Learning and Teaching from a Psycholinguistic Perspective
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Researching Second Language Learning and Teaching from a Psycholinguistic Perspective


Dagmara Galajda , Miroslaw Pawlak , Pawel Zakrajewski


This edited collection explores the processes of second language learning and teaching from a psycholinguistic perspective. Authored by leading experts in the field, the book includes studies focusing on theoretical, empirical and practical aspects of second and foreign...

Publication date: 2016-04-20
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Alice Munro


Miroslawa Buchholtz


The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction. Its innovative quality consists in juxtaposing a variety of literary analyses of selected stories with two other ways of looking at her fiction: the perspectives of film adaptation and of pedagogy....

Publication date: 2016-01-20
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Download this eBook New Directions in Language Learning Psychology
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New Directions in Language Learning Psychology


Christina Gkonou , Sarah Mercer , Dietmar Tatzl


This book explores potential new directions in the growing field of language learning psychology. The individual chapters cover theoretical and conceptual developments and innovative methodological designs, while also exploring practical implications. Language learning...

Publication date: 2015-11-27
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Download this eBook The Ecosystem of the Foreign Language Learner
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The Ecosystem of the Foreign Language Learner


Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel , Magdalena Szyszka


This volume examines selected aspects of the foreign language learning process from an ecological perspective, adopting a holistic view on complex interrelations among and within organisms (L2 language learners) and their milieus (family, school and society). First of...

Publication date: 2015-03-12
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Download this eBook New Media and Perennial Problems in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
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New Media and Perennial Problems in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching


Malgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf , Liliana Piasecka , Przemyslaw Wilk


The book concerns the ways in which the new media shape communication along with educational expectations and practices in foreign language classrooms. Although foreign language learners have cheap and easy access to information and ways of communication, they also...

Publication date: 2014-11-28
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Download this eBook Issues in Teaching, Learning and Testing Speaking in a Second Language
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Issues in Teaching, Learning and Testing Speaking in a Second Language


Miroslaw Pawlak , Ewa Waniek-Klimczak


The volume constitutes a state-of-the-art account of issues related to teaching, learning and testing speaking in a second language. It brings together contributions by Polish and international scholars which seek to create links between theory, research and classroom...

Publication date: 2014-11-13
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Download this eBook Exploring the Role of Strategic Intervention in Form-focused Instruction
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Exploring the Role of Strategic Intervention in Form-focused Instruction


Olga Trendak


The monograph is devoted to the notion of strategic intervention and its application in the foreign language classroom, in particular with reference to teaching grammar structures.The first four chapters, which are theoretical in nature, address such concepts as...

Publication date: 2014-11-11
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Download this eBook Teaching and Researching the Pronunciation of English
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Teaching and Researching the Pronunciation of English


Miroslaw Pawlak , Ewa Waniek-Klimczak


The book contains contributions from practitioners and theoreticians who explore the pronunciation of English from various perspectives: phonetic, phonological, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic. In accordance with the unifying theme of the volume, individual...

Publication date: 2014-10-17
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