Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success–and therefore crucial for the
language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and …

The term translanguaging has appeared with growing frequency in research about the
education of linguistic minority students. Amid increasing application of the term, concern …

Learning through the medium of a second or additional language is becoming very common
in different parts of the world because of the increasing use of English as the language of …

Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical
concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction …

This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-
based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The core idea is that linguistic structure is not stable …

In “The Devil's Dictionary”, Bierce (1911) defined language as “The music with which we
charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.” This satirical definition reflects a core truth …

Cognition is not just 'in the head'; it extends well beyond the skull and the skin. Non‐
Cartesian Cognitive Science views cognition as being embodied, environmentally …

Over the past decade, the focus of inquiry into the psychology of SLA has shifted from the
analysis of various characteristics within individuals towards a greater consideration of …

This book presents the background to the current shift in language education towards action-
oriented/action-based teaching, and provides a theorization of the Action-oriented Approach …

THE PHENOMENON OF MULTILINGUALISM is as old as humanity, but multilingualism has
been catapulted to a new world order in the 21st century. Social relations, knowledge …