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Social Justice in EAP and ELT Contexts: Global Higher Education Perspectives
This book articulates an understanding of what is meant by the term social justice from a global perspective, drawing upon examples of practice from across a range of English for academic purposes (EAP) and English language teaching (ELT) higher education contexts. Presently, within western higher educational systems, there is a drive for greater integration of approaches that lend themselves to social justice. However, questions still remain about what that means in practice. This book seeks to answer that not by telling but by showing. It presents a series of chapters that act as vignettes into a diverse set of classrooms, contexts and countries, offering examples of how and where an epistemology of social justice has been put into practice in teaching and learning situations. Such situations range from cross-continental higher educational partnerships between east and west to instances of EAP practitioners' work with refugees from North Africa and the Middle East. These examples are threaded together by the common goal of understanding what it is that defines an enactment of social justice and what the shared denominators are across these contexts. Through looking at these various examples, the authors produce a set of codes and themes that are common to practice across contexts and discuss how these might help inform practice in other areas of language education, higher education and educational development work in general.
Social Networks in Language Learning and Language Teaching
Sociocultural research has long recognized the necessity of sustained interpersonal interaction for language development. However, less is known about the underlying relationships that promote language acquisition and their relevance for language classrooms . Presenting cutting-edge research on social networks and their applications in language teaching, this book explores the relationships that mediate language learning in and out of classrooms. Highlighting the complexity of language in multilingual contexts, chapters engage social network analysis to understand the role of instructional practices, socialization, motivation, language status, online communications technology, and language policies in the development of social resources for language learning. Discussing popular language teaching frameworks such as translanguaging, Social Networks in Language Learning and Language Teaching provides a nuanced account of the influences of social context on language learning, exploring classroom applications and pointing the way to a robust research agenda.
The Sociology of Translation and the Politics of Sustainability: Explorations Across Cultures and Natures (ISSN)
This book uses sustainability to explore the interfaces between translation studies, the cultural history of knowledge, and Science and Technology studies (STS).The volume examines various material, cultural and epistemic translation practices where sustainability serves as a boundary object between natural and cultural inquiry. By turning to the intellectual traditions that influenced but were left behind by STS and actor-network theory (ANT), we aim to challenge and expand the Sociology of Translation developed in ANT. Concepts such as ‘inscription’ (Derrida), ‘actant’, ‘narrative’ (Greimas), and ‘world/worlding’ (Heidegger, Spivak) were reemployed – translated – in the canonical STS-texts. What networks of meaning were left behind in this reemployment? The book showcases a combination of cultural and knowledge historical perspectives on the construction of the Sociology of Translation and practical experiments across the registers of nature and culture is novel. There have been brilliant individual attempts to realign the Sociology of Translation with narratives and modes of enunciation, but none has related the Sociology of Translation to the networks and traditions which enabled it but to which it erased its relations and debts.This innovative work will appeal to scholars in translation studies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, medical humanities, and Science and Technology studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education (Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education)
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) sits at the nexus of constant change, which makes it vitally important for language teachers to engage in continuous development and keep abreast of the sociopolitical milieu in which they are embedded. However, most teacher education activities are often associated with what is perceived as best practices that are expected to be adopted(often uncritically) for classroom application and practice, with the intention of training teachers to become technicians in their respective classrooms. In reality, TESOL practitioners often find themselvesin situations that require them to be reflexive practitioners and to negotiate sites of political struggles and social injustice.Given that a socially situated understanding of TESOL teacher education is often overlooked, this volume highlights the sociopolitical dimensions of TESOL teacher education. In Part 1, the authors introduce the theoretical underpinnings of the sociopolitical agenda proposed by this volume. Building on these theories, Part 2 realizes the proposed agenda by situating it within actual TESOL teacher education contexts that are characterized by power imbalances and neoliberally inflected educational injustices.
The Sociopolitics of English Language Testing
Highlighting marginalized but significant perspectives about the sociopolitical essence of English language tests and testing processes worldwide, this book explores the social considerations of testing theories and practices from a critical perspective. Investigating concerns surrounding power inequalities, The Sociopolitics of English Language Testing takes a socially-situated view of language assessment, bringing sociopolitical understandings of language teaching, learning, and assessment to the forefront in the field.Within the broader discussion of the politics of test use, an international team of language and education experts address the issues of ideology, diversity, power, and dominance in English language testing. Through socially-sensitive theoretical as well as empirical discussion and investigation of English language testing, this book offers valuable insights, not only to applied linguists and the language education community who have focused on positivistic and cognitively-oriented conceptions of language testing, but to anyone who wishes to venture beyond the traditional bounds of the field.
Soft Skills: Alternative zur Fachlichkeit oder weiche Perfomance? (Schulpädagogik #10)
Nach einer Zeitspanne intensiver Begründung und Evaluierung des pädagogischen Gehalts von Schule durch schulpädagogische Forschung deutet sich an, dass die Aufmerksamkeit der von Schule Betroffenen und Interessierten sich dauerhaft dem Kommunikations-, Konflikt- bzw. dem generellen Umgangsverhalten der Personen zuwendet, die im Handlungsfeld Schule agieren und leben. Das ist nicht neu, die Personalität von Schule hat immer schon im Mittel-punkt des Interesses von Akteuren und Adressaten schulischen Wirkens gestanden. Neu ist: Im außerwissenschaftlichen Diskurs hat sich der Begriff Soft Skills etabliert, die Politik hat ihn inzwischen fest vereinnahmt, die Erziehungswissenschaft hat ein nicht ganz geklärtes Verhältnis zu ihm, weil er nicht zu ihrem etablierten Begriffsrepertoire gehört, sondern einen Import aus anderweitigen Wissenschaftsfeldern darstellt, insbesondere der Betriebswirtschaft und der Wirtschaftspädagogik. Mittlerweile gelten Soft Skills, also die „weichen Umgangs-qualitäten“, als „Allzweckwaffe“ beruflichen Erfolgs und sind deshalb „natürliche“ Gegens-tände öffentlicher Bildung und Erziehung.Den damit korrespondierenden Fragen wendet sich der vorliegende Band zu. Die Autoren haben sich dabei keineswegs allein auf die Schule und die in ihrem Zuständigkeitsbereich geführte Zieledebatte beschränkt, sondern die Rückbindung an den Ort ihres Wirkens gesucht.Besonderes Augenmerk legt der Herausgeber auf die Lesbarkeit, um die Texte nicht nur Fachleuten an die Hand zu geben, sondern gleichermaßen auch Studierenden, Referendaren, Praktikern und interessierten Laien, um ihnen ein Forum für Argumente und Gegenargumente zu erschließen und den Diskurs in der Sache zu befördern.
Sources for Studying the Holocaust: A Guide (Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources)
Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust. For many historians, the challenge has been how to rescue the story from oblivion when oft-used sources for other periods of history introduce even more issues around authenticity and reliability. What can be learned of what transpired in villages and towns numbering several thousand people, when all its Jewish inhabitants were totally obliterated through Nazi action? Who can furnish eyewitness testimony, if all the eyewitnesses were killed? How does one examine written records preserving knowledge of facts or events, where none were kept or survived the onslaught? And what weight do we put upon such resources which did manage to endure the destruction wrought by the Holocaust? Each chapter looks at one of a diverse range of source materials from which scholars have rescued the history, including survivor testimony, diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, photographs, trial documents, artefacts, digital resources, memorials, films, literature, and art. Each chapter shows how different types of records can be utilised as accurate sources for the writing of Holocaust history. Collectively, they highlight the ways in which all material, even the most fragmentary, can be employed to recreate a reliable record of what happened during the Holocaust and show how all sources considered can be employed to find meaning and understanding by exploring a range of sources deeply. This book is a unique analysis of the types of sources that can be used to access the history of Holocaust. It will be of invaluable interest to readers, students, and researchers of the Holocaust.
Sources of Mongolian Buddhism
Despite Mongolia's centrality to East Asian history and culture, Mongols themselves have often been seen as passive subjects on the edge of the Qing formation or as obedient followers of so-called "Tibetan Buddhism," peripheral to major literary, religious, and political developments. But in fact Mongolian Buddhists produced multi-lingual and genre-bending scholastic and ritual works that profoundly shaped historical consciousness, community identification, religious knowledge, and practices in Mongolian lands and beyond. In Sources of Mongolian Buddhism, a team of leading Mongolian scholars and authors have compiled a collection of original Mongolian Buddhist works--including ritual texts, poetic prayers and eulogies, legends, inscriptions, and poems--for the first time in any European language.
Soziales Medienhandeln: Integrative Perspektiven auf den Wandel mediatisierter interpersonaler Kommunikation
Ob Soziale Netzwerke, Smartphones oder Social Robots: Menschen handeln in nahezu allen Lebensbereichen mit Medien. Eine integrative Analyseperspektive kann die Relevanz sozialen Medienhandelns sichtbar machen und Antworten auf grundlegende Fragen unserer Mediengesellschaft liefern. Die Bedeutung von Medien entfaltet sich im sozialen Handeln, in den zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen und Organisationen. Anliegen des Bandes ist es, Phänomene sozialen Medienhandelns umfassend zu analysieren und den damit verbundenen sozialen Wandel nachhaltig zu verstehen. Der Band vereint Beiträge zu verschiedenen Themenfeldern, die aktuelle Forschungen zu sozialen Dimensionen mediatisierter interpersonaler Kommunikation vorlegen.
A Space of Their Own: Women, Writing and Place 1850-1950 (Among the Victorians and Modernists)
This collection explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century women writers incorporated the idea of ‘place’ into their writing. Whether writing from a specific location or focusing upon a particular geographical or imaginary place, women writers working between 1850 and 1950 valued ‘a space of their own’ in which to work. The period on which this collection focuses straddles two main areas of study, nineteenth century writing and early twentieth century/modernist writing, so it enables discussion of how ideas of space progressed alongside changes in styles of writing. It looks to the many ways women writers explored concepts of space and place and how they expressed these through their writings, for example how they interpreted both urban and rural landscapes and how they presented domestic spaces. A Space of Their Own will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and modernist works as it covers a period of immense change for women’s rights in society. It is also not limited to just one type or definition of ‘space’. Therefore, it may also be of interest to academics outside of literature – for example, in gender studies, cultural geography, place writing and digital humanities.
Space, Place and Autonomy in Language Learning (Routledge Research in Language Education)
This book explores theories of space and place in relation to autonomy in language learning. Encompassing a wide range of linguistically and culturally diverse learning contexts, this edited collection brings together research papers from academics working in fourteen countries. In their studies, these researchers examine physical, virtual and metaphorical learning spaces from a wide range of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives (semiotic, ecological, complexity, human geography, linguistic landscapes, mediated discourse analysis, sociocultural, constructivist and social constructivist) and methodological approaches. The book traces its origins to the first-ever symposium on space, place and autonomy, which was held at the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) 2014 World Congress in Brisbane. The final chapter, which presents a thematic analysis of the papers in this volume, discusses the implications for theory development, further enquiry, and pedagogical practice.
Space-Time: Studies in the Symbolic (Re-)appropriation of Public Space (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics)
This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, the importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social transformations across different communities over the last century.The volume seeks to expand the current borders of linguistic landscape (LL) research by situating the analysis of signs in the LL within their time–space organization, which has been understudied in existing scholarship. The book, featuring chapters from established and emerging scholars, argues that a focus on the historicity of the city text can reveal unique insights into the role of semiotic processes as precursors and support mechanisms for political and social changes. The collection is structured around different temporal clusters and geographic contexts across the globe where shorter and longer waves of politically driven resemioticization can be most sharply observed – post-colonial communities; post-communist societies; and recent and current sociopolitical upheavals. Taken together, the volume proposes a kaleidoscope view of the complex temporalities that underpin multimodal discourses in contested public spaces, offering new directions for LL research.This book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, semiotics, visual anthropology, and political science.The Introduction and Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BYNC-ND) 4.0 license.
Spaces of Multilingualism (Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism)
This innovative collection explores critical issues in understanding multilingualism as a defining dimension of identity creation and negotiation in contemporary social life. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and dynamic perspectives on such topics as rethinking of language policy, testing of language rights, language pedagogy, meaning-making, and activism in the linguistic landscape. The book explores multilingualism through the lenses of spaces and policies as embodied in Elizabeth Lanza’s body of work in the field, with a focus on the latest research on linguistic landscapes in diverse settings. Taken together, the book offers a window into better understanding issues around processes of change in and of languages and societies. This ground breaking volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, applied linguistics, and sociolinguistics.
Spanische Literatur: Aus zehn Jahrhunderten
Die Kindler Klassiker präsentieren in einem Band die wichigen Autoren und Werke einer Nationalliteratur. Auf 600 - 800 Seiten werden sie vorgestell: kurze biografische Skizzen der Autoren und kundige Darstellung der Werke. Alles wie im KLL, nur: eine ganze literarische Welt in einem Band.
Spanische Literaturgeschichte
Von Teresa de Ávila über Cervantes bis Cela. Das breite Panorama der spanischen Literatur von dem maurisch-christlich-jüdischen Zusammenleben über das Siglo de Oro bis zur zeitgenössischen Literatur entwirft dieser Band. Den Schwerpunkt bildet das 19. und 20. Jahrhundert mit seinen literarischen Erscheinungen wie: die asturianische Aufklärung, der Costumbrismus, das "Género chico", die "Generationen" von 1898 und 1927 und die Literatur der Francozeit. Der Autor zeigt die typischen Erscheinungen und Probleme wie die spanischen Mystik, den Schelmenroman, den Widerstreit zwischen Inquisition und Aufklärung und die kulturellen Folgen des Bürgerkriegs im 20. Jahrhundert. Zahlreiche Illustrationen aus Geschichte, Kunst und Alltag zeigen die große Vielfalt des literarischen Leben Spaniens.
Spanische Literaturgeschichte
Von Teresa de Ávila über Cervantes bis Zafón. Die Literaturgeschichte entwirft ein lebendiges Bild der kastilischen Literatur vom maurisch-christlich-jüdischen Zusammenleben bis heute. Sie lässt ganze Epochen Revue passieren, geht aber auch auf einzelne Texte und Themen, wie z. B. den Schelmenroman oder die corral -Bühne, detailliert ein. Für die 4. Auflage wurden die Kapitel zum 18. Jahrhundert und zur Gegenwartsliteratur einschließlich des Films deutlich erweitert. Der Abschnitt über die Zeit nach dem Bürgerkrieg (1975-2010) wurde komplett neu konzipiert.
Spanische Literaturgeschichte
Spaniens Kultur im Spiegel der Literatur. Welche Einflüsse prägten Teresa de Ávila? Wie wurde Cervantes' 'Don Quijote' im "Siglo de Oro" aufgenommen? Die bekannte Literaturgeschichte dokumentiert den Reichtum der kastilischen Literatur vom maurisch-christlich-jüdischen Zusammenleben bis in die Gegenwart. Die 3. Auflage schreibt die Literaturgeschichte bis heute fort und widmet sich u. a. den letzten Romanen von Semprún, Marías und Muñoz Molina, den Gedichten von Ana Rossetti und José Hierro, aktuellen Film- und Theaterarbeiten wie der 'Trilogía de la juventud' von Fernández und dem Megaseller 'La sombra del viento' von Ruiz Zafón. Für mehr Freude an der spanischen Literatur.
Speaking of Language and Law: Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma (Oxford Studies in Language and Law)
Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). Tiersma's significant body of work traverses a variety of legal and linguistic fields. This book offers a selection of twelve of Tiersma's most influential publications, divided into five thematic areas that are critical to both law and linguistics: Language and Law as a Field of Inquiry, Legal Language and its History, Language and Civil Liability, Language and Criminal Justice, and Jury Instructions. Each paper is accompanied by a brief commentary from a leading scholar in the field, offering a substantive conversation about the ramifications of Tiersma's work and the disagreements that have often surrounded it.
Speech Representation in the History of English: Topics and Approaches (Oxford Studies in the History of English)
Representing what someone else has said is an integral part of spoken and written communication. Speech representation occurs in many contexts from news reports and legal trials to everyday conversation. Although commonplace, it requires sophisticated choices regarding what to represent and how to represent it. These choices can highlight a speaker's voice, shape our perception of the reported speech, or support our claims of authority.While speech representation in Present-day English has been studied extensively, this book extends the discussion to historical periods. Speech Representation in the History of English explores speech representation of the past, providing in-depth analyses of how speakers and writers mark, structure, and discuss a previous speech event or fictional speech. Focusing on the Early Modern English and the Late Modern English periods (1500-1900), this volume covers topics such as parentheses as markers of represented speech, the development of like as a reporting expression, the gradual formation of free indirect speech reporting, and the interpersonal functions of represented speech. Chapters draw on a wide range of methodologies, including historical sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and corpus linguistics, and cover many genres from witness depositions, literary texts, and letters, to the spoken language of the recent past. In this comprehensive volume, Peter Grund and Terry Walker bring together a collection of works that use cutting-edge approaches to speech representation. Researchers and students of the history of English, sociolinguistics, and discourse studies alike will find Speech Representation in the History of English to be an invaluable addition to the field.
Sprache und Raum: Psychologische und linguistische Aspekte der Aneignung und Verarbeitung von Räumlichkeit - ein Arbeitsbuch für das Lehren von Forschung
Sprachsensibler Fachunterricht: Chancen und Herausforderungen aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive (Sprachsensibilität in Bildungsprozessen)
Dieser Sammelband widmet sich dem komplexen Zusammenhang zwischen Sprachhandeln und Fachunterricht aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive: Er bringt fachdidaktische sowie bildungs-, sprach- und kulturwissenschaftliche Ansätze miteinander in den Dialog, fragt nach Voraussetzungen und Effekten von sprachlicher Interaktion in Lehr- und Lernprozessen und identifiziert so unterschiedliche Dimensionen von Sprachsensibilität als Chance und Herausforderung im schulischen Kontext. Er beleuchtet zudem die nicht selten impliziten sprachlichen Anforderungen des Fachunterrichts sowie deren normative Referenzen und spricht sich für eine stärkere Berücksichtigung der Sprachlichkeit von Fachunterricht in der Lehrkräftebildung aus.
Sprachwissenschaft: Grammatik – Interaktion – Kognition
Das Phänomen Sprache und seine aktuelle Erforschung. Sprachwissenschaft umfasst mehr als nur Grundlegendes wie Laute, Wörter und Sätze. Daher greift das Lehrbuch über die grammatischen Disziplinen hinaus zahlreiche Themen auf, die das Interesse für das Fach Linguistik wecken: sprachliche Interaktion, Variation und Wandel, Sprachkontakt und Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprache und Kultur, Ursprung der Sprache u. a. Das große Format und das zweifarbige Layout erleichtern den Überblick. Umfassend und kompakt ideal für BA-Studierende.
A Stage of Emancipation: Change and Progress at the Dublin Gate Theatre
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. As the prominence of the recent #WakingTheFeminists movement illustrates, the Irish theatre world is highly conscious of the ways in which theatre can foster social emancipation. This volume of essays uncovers a wide range of marginalised histories by reflecting on the emancipatory role that the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) has played in Irish culture and society, both historically and in more recent times. The Gate’s founders, Hilton Edwards and Michéal mac Liammóir, promoted the work of many female playwrights and created an explicitly cosmopolitan stage on which repressive ideas about gender, sexuality, class and language were questioned. During Selina Cartmell’s current tenure as director, cultural diversity and social emancipation have also featured prominently on the Gate’s agenda, with various productions exploring issues of ethnicity in contemporary Ireland. The Gate thus offers a unique model for studying the ways in which cosmopolitan theatres, as cultural institutions, give expression to and engage with the complexities of identity and diversity in changing, globalised societies. CONTRIBUTORS: David Clare, Marguérite Corporaal, Mark Fitzgerald, Barry Houlihan, Radvan Markus, Deirdre McFeely, Justine Nakase, Siobhan O'Gorman, Mary Trotter, Grace Vroomen, Ian R. Walsh, Feargal Whelan
Staging Difficult Pasts: Transnational Memory, Theatres, and Museums
This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences. Whether this is through narrative, object, embodied encounter or a combination of the three, this volume considers distinctions and interactions between memory and history specifically through the lenses of theatre and performance studies, visual culture, and museum and curator studies. This book is underpinned by three areas of research enquiry: How are contemporary theatre makers and museum curators staging historical narratives of difficult pasts? How might comparisons between theatre and museum practices offer new insights into the role objects play in generating and representing difficult pasts? What points of overlap, comparison, and contrast among these constructions of history and memory of authoritarianism, slavery, colonialism, genocide, armed conflict, fascism, and communism might offer an expanded understanding of difficult pasts in these transnational cultural contexts? This collection is designed for any scholar of its central disciplines, as well as for those interested in cultural geography, memory studies, and postcolonial theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.