'This book provides an excellent, comprehensive resource for teaching degree programmes in the fields of language, social interaction and human communication. The discussion is…

Literacy is a comprehensive textbook which provides students and researchers with support for advanced study of the topic. It introduces readers to a broad range…

Bilingualism:

• introduces students to key issues and themes that include bilingual development and education; and the integration of social and cognitive perspectives
• uses tasks and examples to&8230;

Language Testing and Assessment:

• introduces students to the key methods and debates surrounding language testing and assessment
• explores the testing of linguistic competence of children, students, asylum&8230;

English for Academic Purposes:

• introduces the major theories, approaches and controversies in the field
• gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: John Swales,&8230;

Language and Gender:

• presents an up-to-date introduction to language and gender
• includes diverse work from a range of cultural, including non-Western, contexts, and represents a range of&8230;

Corpus-Based Language Studies:

• covers the major theoretical approaches to the use of corpus data
• adopts a ‘how to’ approach with exercises and cases, affording students with the&8230;

Second Language Acquisition:

• introduces the key areas in the field, including multilingualism, the role of teaching, the mental processing of multiple languages, and patterns of growth&8230;

Grammar and Context:

• considers how grammatical choices influence and are influenced by the context in which communication takes place
• examines the interaction of a wide variety of&8230;

Translation:

• examines the theory and practice of translation from a variety of linguistic and cultural angles, including semantics, functional linguistics, corpus and cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis,&8230;