This text focuses on the motivational regulation in English language learning of Chinese college students. Considering the importance and necessity of motivational regulation study in foreign language learning, it systematically explores strategies used by Chinese college students to regulate motivation, taking into account student gender, specialty and English proficiency. The book considers s…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. European Languages in Nineteenth-Century Ireland -- Chapter 3. The Translation Trade: Economies of Culture in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 4. Translation and Religion -- Chapter 5. Death of the Author, Birth of the Translator? Translation and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland -- Chapter 6. Translation and the Nation -- Chapter 7. The Female Pen…
Chapter 1. Contextualising Chinese language education in the Western Context -- Chapter 2. Chinese language and Duiwai Hanyu Jiaoxue (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) -- Chapter 3. The debatable role of English (L1) in Duiwai Hanyu (L2) Jiaoxue (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) -- Chapter 4. Post-lingual pedagogical practice - Hanzi Method -- Chapter 5. Meaning-making - Hanzi orth…
- Chapter 1: Cognitive, social and psychological issues of public discourse and threat communication -- Chapter 2: Proximization: A threat-based model of policy legitimization -- Chapter 3: Health discourse: The war on cancer and beyond -- Chapter 4: Environmental discourse: Climate change -- Chapter 5: Technological discourse: Threats in the cyber-space -- Chapter 6: Immigration and anti-migr…
Chapter 1: Introduction: Refugee, Language, and Literacy -- Chapter 2: “But, we are Karenni. We are not Burmese.”: Historical Contexts and Lived Experiences of Karenni Refugees from Burma -- Chapter 3: The Three Families -- Chapter 4: Life, Liberty, and (the Pursuit of) English -- Chapter 5: Karenni Youth, Multilingual Practices, and Transnational Literacy -- Chapter 6: Digital Literacy in …
-- PART I: Written language and semiotics -- Chapter 1: Researching the representation of a crisis -- Chapter 2: Semiotic Discourse Analysis -- PART II: A Barthesian conceptualisation of written language -- Chapter 3: Theoretical foundations -- Chapter 4: Data collection and research principles -- Chapter 5: A Barthesian analysis of the BP data in four stages -- Chapter 6: Stage 1: Contextuali…
Chapter 1: Introduction -- PART I: INVESTIGATING CHARACTER FOCALIZATION IN CHILDREN’S NOVELS -- Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Character Focalization -- Chapter 3: Focalizing Structures -- Chapter 4: Character Focalization Selection and Development -- PART II: PERCEPTUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter 5: Perceptual Facet Developments: Seeing and Hearing Experiences -- Chapter 6: Psychol…
- Chapter 1. Hong Kong English: an overview -- PART I: LEXICOGRAMMAR -- Chapter 2. Tag questions -- Chapter 3. Collective nouns -- PART II: DISCOURSE -- Chapter 4. Expressions of gratitude -- Chapter 5. Code-mixing of indigenous Cantonese words into English -- Chapter 6. Linguistic variation in digital discourse: the case of blogs -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Indigenous Cantonese exp…
Chapter 1: Peer Review in Academic Settings -- Chapter 2: The Genre of Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 3: Pragmatics and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 4: Politeness and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 5: Evaluation and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 6: Learning to Do Peer Review -- Chapter 7: Implications for Reviewer Training -- Chapter 8: Conclusions.This book examines reports that are wri…
- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The disciplinary landscape -- Chapter 3. Understanding interdisciplinarity -- Chapter 4. Interdisciplinary interaction -- Chapter 5. Knowledge exchange in initial meetings -- Chapter 6. The collaborative construction of knowledge -- Chapter 7. Disciplinary identity -- Chapter 8. How leadership works -- Chapter 9. Conclusion.This book uncovers exactly what…