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1. The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

   Edited by Susan M. Gass, Alison Mackey

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-47993-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Intelligibility in World Englishes

   By Cecil L. Nelson

   Intelligibility is the term most generally used to address the complex of criteria that describe, broadly, how useful someone’s English is when talking or writing to someone else. This much-debated concern touches not only sociolinguistic theory but all aspects of English language teaching, second...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-87182-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Language Teacher Education for a Global Society: A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing

   By B. Kumaravadivelu

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-87738-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. English Grammar Pedagogy: Global Perspectives

   By Barbara M. Birch

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88585-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction

   By Michaela Mahlberg

   This book presents a way into the Dickensian world that starts from linguistic patterns, employing corpus linguistic methodology to study electronic versions of his texts. The analysis begins with clusters -- i.e. repeated sequences of words -- as pointers to local textual functions, and...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-80014-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Sino-Tibetan Linguistics

   Edited by Randy LaPolla

   The Sino-Tibetan languages form the largest language family in the world in terms of native speakers, of whom there are some 1.4 billion spread across East Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia. The family consists of two branches: Sinitic, consisting of the Chinese languages (including...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57739-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Primary Language Impairment in Children

   By Carolyn Letts, Cristina McKean, Helen Stringer

   Primary language impairments have major consequences for a child’s educational and social development, including literacy, and were a key focus in the Bercow review of services to children with speech, language and communication needs. This evidence-based text focuses on how best to help children –...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58702-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness

   By Wendy Ryden, Ian Marshall

   Ryden and Marshall bring together the critical lenses of whiteness studies and the field of composition and rhetoric in this timely co-authored study about recent developments in whiteness studies and what these developments mean for literacy practices, critical education, and the academic...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88865-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets, 2nd Edition

   By Christopher Moseley, George L Campbell

   The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets is a unique reference to the main scripts and alphabets of the world. The Handbook presents over sixty alphabets covering an enormous scope of languages; from Amharic and Chinese to Tahi and Cree. Full scripts tables are given...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56097-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. On Shell Structure

    By Richard Larson

    This is a collection of essays examining syntax and semantics, with particular focus on double object construction and adjuncts....

    May 2011 | 978-0-415-16773-4 | Hardback (Routledge)